The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is rarely visible at this time of year, but we can still see it from Earth with high-resolution astronomical systems providing illuminating data. What is it?
Astronomy
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A NASA researcher argues in a new paper that the Milky Way likely hosts multiple civilisations, but we haven’t found them for a very simple reason.
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We commonly refer to meteors as "shooting stars," the bright lights that streak across the sky. Scientifically, the distinction is crucial. A meteorite is a rock that survives the atmosphere, unlike a meteor, which disintegrates.
What would happen if the cosmological constant, which is currently positive, became negative? Based on this theory, a team of researchers has managed to model the end of our Universe.
A new study reveals why it rains on the Sun, solving a decades-old mystery. Researchers show rapidly changing elements in the Sun’s atmosphere trigger plasma “rain” during solar flares.
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A free-floating planet has been observed by astronomers to be gathering dust at an unprecedented rate - what does this tell us?