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0a059e6cacf73ba4d829f2e4fd6b8e1b: ESA’s exoplanet watcher Cheops reveals unique planetary system
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25 Jan 2021, 15:00 UTC ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops has revealed a unique planetary system consisting of six exoplanets, five of which are locked in a rare rhythmic dance as they orbit their central star. The sizes and masses of the planets, however, don’t follow such an orderly pattern. This finding challenges current theories of planet formation.
news/2021-01: Astronomers Discover First Cloudless, Jupiter-Like Planet
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22 Jan 2021, 14:09 UTC
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2021/hubble-takes-portrait-of-the-lost-galaxy: Hubble Takes Portrait of the ‘Lost Galaxy’
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21 Jan 2021, 18:42 UTC Located in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin), around 50 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy NGC 4535 is truly a stunning sight to behold. Despite the incredible quality of this image, taken from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, NGC 4535 has a hazy, somewhat ghostly, appearance when viewed from a smaller telescope. This led amateur astronomer Leland S. Copeland to nickname NGC 4535 the “Lost Galaxy” in the 1950s.
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2101/: ALMA captures distant colliding galaxy dying out as it loses the ability to form stars
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20 Jan 2021, 10:33 UTC Galaxies begin to “die” when they stop forming stars, but until now astronomers had never clearly glimpsed the start of this process in a far-away galaxy. Using the ALMA, astronomers have seen a galaxy ejecting nearly half of its star-forming gas.
73a27a55a1db475a12b2895800319d07: Astronauts to boost European connectivity
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19 Jan 2021, 11:27 UTC Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are planning a spacewalk to install a high-speed satellite link that will improve their connections with Europe.
https://hubblesite.org/feed/NewsRelease-1299-1610659856: Researchers Rewind the Clock to Calculate Age and Site of Supernova Blast
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Direct link Researchers Rewind the Clock to Calculate Age and Site of Supernova Blast

14 Jan 2021, 21:30 UTC Astronomers are winding back the clock on the expanding remains of a nearby, exploded star. By using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, they retraced the speedy shrapnel from the blast to calculate a more accurate estimate of the location and time of the stellar detonation.
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/magnetic-highway-channels-material-out-of-cigar-galaxy: Magnetic ‘Highway’ Channels Material Out of Cigar Galaxy
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Direct link Magnetic ‘Highway’ Channels Material Out of Cigar Galaxy

14 Jan 2021, 17:15 UTC What’s fueling the massive ejection of gas and dust out of the Cigar galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 82?
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/magnetic-chaos-hidden-within-the-whirlpool-galaxy: Magnetic Chaos Hidden Within the Whirlpool Galaxy
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14 Jan 2021, 17:15 UTC
https://hubblesite.org/feed/NewsRelease-1298-1610471032: New Horizons Spacecraft Answers Question: How Dark Is Space?
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Direct link New Horizons Spacecraft Answers Question: How Dark Is Space?

12 Jan 2021, 17:00 UTC How dark is the sky, and what does that tell us about the number of galaxies in the visible universe? Astronomers can estimate the total number of galaxies by counting everything visible in a Hubble deep field and then multiplying them by the total area of the sky. But other galaxies are too faint and distant to directly detect. Yet while we can’t count them, their light suffuses space with a feeble glow.
2703 at https://carnegiescience.edu: Mistaken identity: A presumed supernova is actually something much rarer
Carnegie Science

Direct link Mistaken identity: A presumed supernova is actually something much rarer

12 Jan 2021, 15:28 UTC In a case of comic mistaken identity, an international team of astronomers revealed that what they once thought was a supernova is actually periodic flaring from a galaxy where a supermassive black hole gives off bursts of energy every 114 days as it tears off chunks of an orbiting star.

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