astrophysics
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It Could Rain Iron On This Hellish Exoplanet
Don’t forget to bring your sturdiest umbrella when you travel to the extra-hot planet WASP-76b, where it may literally rain molten iron.
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Telescope Detects Fast Radio Burst Hitting Earth Every 16 Days
A telescope in Canada has found a source of mysterious fast radio bursts that repeats every 16 days, according to a new paper. It’s the first regularly repeating fast radio burst known to science.
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Nearby Gas Clouds Actually Form Behemoth Structure That Might Be The Milky Way’s Arm, Study Finds
Astronomers have discovered that many of the star-forming regions we see in the sky actually seem to form an undulating, 8,800-light-year-long wave containing 3 million solar masses’ worth of gas that could make up our local arm of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Major Quantum Achievement Lets Physicists ‘See’ Gravitational Waves From Deeper In The Universe
Physicists are reporting the results of a test to squeeze the vacuum of spacetime itself in order to better detect gravitational waves from colliding black holes.