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Sciworthy

Sciworthy

The Encyclopedia of Science's Frontier

Category: Astrobiology & Space Science

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Dying stars create new elements

Posted on June 26, 2025June 26, 2025 by Ben Pauley

Astrophysicists showed that collapsing white dwarfs can eject enough material to form heavy elements.

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    Scientists discover a planet-eating star

    Posted on May 29, 2025June 25, 2025 by Ben Pauley

    Astronomers studied light emissions from a star system 2 years after its peak brightness and saw that it had consumed and partially spat out…

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      How did Venus’s Ishtar highlands form?

      Posted on May 26, 2025June 25, 2025 by Sciworthy

      Researchers modeled tectonic and magmatic processes on Venus. They determined that its highlands formed when molten rock rose, melting its…

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        What’s a Super-Earth made of?

        Posted on May 19, 2025June 25, 2025 by Ben Pauley

        Astronomers observed a super-Earth with properties requiring surface water or a steam atmosphere. It challenges the paradigm that rocky…

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          Scientists track the origin of exotic particles

          Posted on May 4, 2025June 25, 2025 by Ben Pauley

          Astronomers reviewed 7 years' worth of data on high-energy neutrinos and found they’re coming from an area of space that produces gamma…

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            Do black holes come in pairs?

            Posted on April 21, 2025June 25, 2025 by Ben Pauley

            Astronomers modeled how black holes merge and found that most converged black holes started as large stars in a binary system. They also…

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              This rendering shows a snapshot from a cosmological simulation of a Lyman-alpha Blob similar to LAB-1. This simulation tracks the evolution of gas and dark matter using one of the latest models for galaxy formation running on the NASA Pleiades supercomputer. This view shows the distribution of gas within the dark matter halo, colour coded so that cold gas (mainly neutral hydrogen) appears red and hot gas appears white. Embedded at the centre of this system are two strongly star-forming galaxies, but these are surrounded by hot gas and many smaller satellite galaxies that appear as small red clumps of gas here. Lyman-alpha photons escape from the central galaxies and scatter off the cold gas associated with these satellites to give rise to an extended Lyman-alpha Blob.
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              Astronomers find distant galaxies with neural networks

              Posted on April 7, 2025June 25, 2025 by Ben Pauley

              Researchers developed a computer algorithm that correctly predicted the light emission characteristics of ancient faraway galaxies based on…

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                "Pitch-black Exoplanet (Illustration)" by NASA Hubble is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
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                How did Super Jupiters form?

                Posted on March 24, 2025June 25, 2025 by Ben Pauley

                Astronomers profiled the characteristics of exoplanet TOI-2145b to explore the origins of Super Jupiters. They suggested these massive…

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                  Alien life could face threats from passing stars and supernovae

                  Posted on February 20, 2025June 25, 2025 by Ben Pauley

                  Astronomers examined 84 of the closest known stars with potentially habitable exoplanets and found that 3 face possible extinction-level…

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                    How did supermassive black holes form?

                    Posted on January 30, 2025June 25, 2025 by Ben Pauley

                    An astronomer analyzed ancient supermassive black holes with mathematical models and found they likely grew exponentially after light,…

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