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Young Giant Planet Offers Clues to Formation of Exotic Worlds
This animation shows a type of gas giant planet known as a hot Jupiter that orbits very close to its star. Finding more of these youthful planets could help astronomers understand how they formed and if they migrate from cooler climes during their lifetimes.
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Satellites Have Drastically Changed How We Forecast Hurricanes
Satellites Have Drastically Changed How We Forecast Hurricanes
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NASA Observes Large Saharan Dust Plume Over Atlantic Ocean
On June 18, 2020, NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured this visible image of the large light brown plume of Saharan dust over the North Atlantic Ocean. The image showed that the dust from Africa’s west coast extended almost to the Lesser Antilles in the western North Atlantic Ocean.
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Quasar jets are particle accelerators thousands of light-years long
Composite image of Centaurus A, showing the jets emerging from the galaxy’s central black hole, together with the associated gamma radiation.
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Astronomers Discover a Mysterious Cosmic Clock
lasts of radiation detected every 16 days, which could help explain mysterious bursts of energy from space.
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Are Planets with Oceans Common in the Galaxy? It’s Likely, NASA Scientists Find
This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft flying through plumes on Enceladus in October 2015.
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Stunning New Hubble Images Reveal Stars Gone Haywire
Stunning New Hubble Images Reveal Stars Gone Haywire
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NASA’s IBEX Charts 11 Years of Change at Boundary to Interstellar Space
As the Sun wades through the interstellar medium, it generates a hot, dense wave like the wave at the front of a boat coursing through the sea. In this illustration, this is the boundary in darker blue. IBEX has helped scientists determine the shape of the heliosphere, which has a comet-like tail.
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HOPS 383: X-rays From a Newborn Star Hint at Our Sun's Earliest Days
X-ray: NASA/CXC/Aix-Marseille University/N. Grosso et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss
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A Cosmic Baby Is Discovered, and It's Brilliant
This illustration shows magnetic field lines protruding from a highly magnetic neutron star, or a dense nugget left over after a star goes supernova and explodes. Known as magnetars, these objects generate bright bursts of light that might be powered by their strong magnetic fields.
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