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NASA’s TESS Delivers New Insights Into an Ultrahot World
This illustration shows how planet KELT-9 b sees its host star. Over the course of a single orbit, the planet twice experiences cycles of heating and cooling caused by the star’s unusual pattern of surface temperatures. Between the star’s hot poles and cool equator, temperatures vary by about 1,500 F (800 C). This produces a “summer” when the planet faces a pole and a “winter” when it faces the cooler midsection. So every 36 hours, KELT-9 b experiences two summers and two winters.
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Hungriest of Black Holes Among the Most Massive in the Universe
Hungriest of Black Holes Among the Most Massive in the Universe
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A Cosmic Mystery: ESO Telescope Captures the Disappearance of a Massive Star
A Cosmic Mystery: ESO Telescope Captures the Disappearance of a Massive Star
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The Beautiful Mess in Galaxy Cluster Abell 2255
The filamentary structures observed by LOFAR at the center of Abell 2255, here reported in red. These radio emissions are due to trails of particles and magnetic fields released by the galaxies during their motion inside the cluster
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Array of Radio Telescopes Reveals Explosion on the Surface of a Hot Dead Star
The set of images obtained from the observations, starting 20 days after the discovery of the nova event and tracing the advance of the shock front for over six months.
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Dance, Electron, Dance: Scientists Use Light to Choreograph Electronic Motion in 2D Materials
Microscope image of the TMD moiré superlattice device.
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NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP Satellite Analyzes Saharan Dust Aerosol Blanket
This June 24, 2020 image is from the Suomi NPP OMPS aerosol index. The dust plume moved over the Yucatan Peninsula and up through the Gulf of Mexico. The largest and thickest part of the plume is visible over the eastern and central Atlantic.
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Black Hole Collision May Have Exploded With Light
This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of gas. Embedded in this disk are two smaller black holes that may have merged together to form a new black hole.
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