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LOFAR images cosmic radio monsters

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LOFAR images cosmic radio monsters

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3D-printed thrust chamber passes first tests for Vega evolutions

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M10 thrust chamber for future Vega evolution

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Two Stars Merged to Form Massive White Dwarf

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Artist's impression of two white dwarfs in the process of merging. Depending on the combined mass, the system may explode in a thermonuclear supernova, or coalesce into a single heavy white dwarf, as with WDJ0551+4135. This image is free for use if used in direct connection with this story but image copyright and credit must be University of Warwick/Mark Garlick.

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Researchers find string theory link in a class of complex numbers

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Figure 1. Extension of the concept of integral "numbers". Black points are the ordinary integers shown in a complex plane. Addition or multiplication of any pair of black points ends up with another black point. All the red points and blue points in this figure are solutions to some quadratic equations with integer coefficients. The purple points are solutions to some quartic equations with integer coefficients. So, we can think of those points also as a part of "numbers". Addition and multiplication operations among black-or-red points remain within the "numbers" shown in black-or-red points, and similarly, those operations of black-red-blue-or-purple points remain within the "numbers" in black-red-blue-or-purple points. In this way, it is possible to expand the set of integral "numbers" gradually.

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Globular cluster billowing in the Galactic wind

Investigation of pulsars in 47 Tuc provides constraints on the magnetic field in the halo of the Milky Way

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Globular cluster 47 Tuc (upper right) and the Small Magellanic Cloud in the same field-of-view. The inset is a close-up of the cluster showing the detected magnetic field in a colour scale. The lines indicate the effect of the Galactic wind on the magnetic field.

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Andros, Bahamas

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Andros, Bahamas

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UBC student discovers 17 new planets, including potentially habitable, Earth-sized world

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Sizes of the 17 new planet candidates, compared to Mars, Earth, and Neptune. The planet in green is KIC-7340288 b, a rare rocky planet in the Habitable Zone.

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Looking at the Insides of Stars

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Artist’s impression of TESS observing planets orbiting a dwarf star.

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Satellite design applied to superyacht

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Satellite design applied to superyacht

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The most powerful black hole eruption in the Universe

Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space observatories, along with radio telescopes on ground, have spotted the aftermath of the most powerful explosion ever seen in the Universe.

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The most powerful black hole eruption in the Universe