Sky Telescope Noticas recientes
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Lost in the Star Clouds — A Milky Way Odyssey
I share my "discovery" of a new Milky Way star cloud that's been staring at me for ages.
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NASA's Psyche Sends Back Amazing Images of Mars
NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission made a course adjustment via a flyby past Mars en route to its final destination. Here's what it saw.
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This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 22 – 31
Venus and Jupiter — the Evening Star and the False Evening Star — draw closer together in the western twilight and point down to Mercury. The waxing Moon shows off its rich telescopic detail.
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Nereid Could be Neptune’s Only Original Moon
New research suggests that Triton — or a Triton-like object — might have disrupted Neptune's original moon system. Nereid might be the sole survivor.
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How Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede Melted Its Core
A new model explains how Ganymede got its molten core — which in turn has given Jupiter's largest moon its magnetic field.
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SMILE: European Space Weather Mission Launches
An innovative new mission will probe the mystery of how the Earth’s magnetosphere interacts with the solar wind.
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What's Feeding Our Supermassive Black Hole?
Astronomers have identified the likely source of gas that flows into the maw of the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*.
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This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 15 – 24
The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter — the three brightest celestial objects after the Sun — will form up beautifully in twilight this Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
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How Did This Peculiar Planet Pair Form?
A planetary odd couple — a mini-Neptune and a hot Jupiter — probably formed much farther away from their star before migrating closer in.
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Webb Telescope Reveals Brown Dwarfs Masquerading as Early Galaxies
Two objects that appeared to be galaxies residing in a universe about 150 million years old turn out to be brown dwarfs in the Milky Way.
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