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Read more at: More clues to understand our early Universe

More clues to understand our early Universe

31 January 2023

An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting “the Epoch of Re-ionization” — the era just after the first stars ignited and galaxies began to bloom . In a paper accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal , the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array ( HERA )...

Read more at: Dust plumes observed being pushed into interstellar space by intense starlight
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Dust plumes observed being pushed into interstellar space by intense starlight

16 January 2023

Astronomers have observed directly for the first time how intense light from stars can ‘push’ matter. Researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Sydney made the observation when tracking a giant plume of dust generated by the violent interactions between two massive stars. The results , made using infrared images...

Read more at: Study of ‘polluted’ white dwarfs finds that stars and planets grow together
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Study of ‘polluted’ white dwarfs finds that stars and planets grow together

16 January 2023

A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as their parent star. A study of some of the oldest stars in the Universe suggests that the building blocks of planets like Jupiter and...

Read more at: Gaia Collaboration to Receive 2023 Berkeley Prize
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Gaia Collaboration to Receive 2023 Berkeley Prize

13 January 2023

The Gaia collaboration, which is responsible for the spacecraft that is currently building the largest and most precise three-dimensional map of our galaxy, will receive the 2023 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy . Bestowed annually since 2011 by the American...

Read more at: New from Webb Telescope: An Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before
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New from Webb Telescope: An Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before

11 January 2023

Known for beaming stunning images back to Earth, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical portrait of a distant world’s skies. The telescope’s array of highly sensitive instruments was trained on the atmosphere of a “hot Saturn” – a planet about as massive as Saturn orbiting a...

Read more at: UK-led robotic sky scanner reveals its first galactic fingerprint
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UK-led robotic sky scanner reveals its first galactic fingerprint

11 January 2023

A major telescope upgrade has peered through to the distant Universe to reveal the spectra of a pair of galaxies 280 million light years away from Earth. The spectra provide a first glimpse of the sky from the WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE) – a unique upgrade to the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in La Palma...

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