astronomy
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Habitable Worlds May Lurk in the Sooty In-Betweens of Star Systems
A team of astronomers has proposed peering into the inconspicuous region between host stars and their soot lines to find habitable worlds beyond our solar system.
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Amateur Astronomers Can See a New Supernova in the Night Sky
In the ever-changing cosmic goo that is the universe, the biggest stars end their lives in enormous explosions called supernovae. These bursts are so bright that they are visible across vast distances — and a new one just appeared in the night sky here on Earth. If you turn your telescope toward the constellation Ursa…
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This Earth-Size Planet May Be Entirely Covered in Volcanoes
NASA telescopes spotted a hardcore exoplanet 90 light-years away.
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Proposed Mission Seeks to Resurrect Retired Spitzer Space Telescope
For more than three years, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has been idly coasting around the Sun while locked in a retirement safe mode, while its successor, the Webb Telescope, took over its cosmic observation duties. An upcoming servicing mission, however, could give the old telescope a new purpose: protecting Earth from dangerous asteroids.