physicalsciences
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Gravitational Waves Might Be Generated by the Debris Fields of Dying Stars
A team of astrophysicists has determined through simulations that the debris shed by dying stars may be a source of gravitational waves — those ripples in spacetime predicted by Einstein over a century ago.
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Solves a Longtime Mystery About the Sun
Although the Sun fuels life on our planet, Earth’s host star is not to be messed with. The inflamed ball of hot gas can often times get violent, flinging streams of plasma in our direction in the form of solar wind. By the time this solar wind reaches us, it has already travelled 93 million…
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Webb Space Telescope Takes Portrait of Star-Studded Barred Galaxy
The Webb Space Telescope is on a tear, imaging regions of star formation across the cosmos. Its latest target? The barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068 — a bedazzled conglomeration of gas and stars 17 million light-years from Earth.
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Habitable Worlds May Lurk in the Sooty In-Betweens of Star Systems
A team of astronomers has proposed peering into the inconspicuous region between host stars and their soot lines to find habitable worlds beyond our solar system.