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5 dni temu · A "baby" exoplanet recently spotted relatively near to Earth is the youngest alien world ever seen, a new study suggests. Researchers say the rare sighting is linked to a mysteriously wonky ...
6 dni temu · Only 3 million years old, the huge planet is considered a "baby" in space, NASA said. In fact, researchers said it is the equivalent in age to a two-week-old baby. In comparison, Earth, a...
29 gru 2021 · Even as the world below grappled with another pandemic year, weird and wonderful space discoveries flooded in from above, with astronomers pulling back the curtain on monster black holes,...
3 dni temu · The baby planet’s orbit and its host star’s rotation are consistent with edge-on orientations, the team found, but the star system’s disk is tilted at a 30-degree angle.
Facts about the strangest, weirdest, most unusual and downright coolest exoplanets astronomers have discovered over the past few decades.
In summer 1996, the small Ural region city of Kyshtym (1,764 km east of Moscow) witnessed a bizarre scene. A retired woman, Tamara Prosvirina, was walking down the street with something covered in...
17 cze 2020 · Known as magnetars, these objects generate bright bursts of light that might be powered by their strong magnetic fields. Born from an exploded star, the infant magnetar belongs to a family of extreme objects called neutron stars. Its discovery may lend insight into these strange phenomena.
