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March 14, 2025
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Exceptional Variability in Blazar BL Lacertae Challenges Classification



Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 14, 2025
Blazars are a class of active galaxies that direct powerful jets of ionized matter toward Earth. Typically, astronomers categorize them into distinct classes based on the characteristics of their emitted electromagnetic radiation. However, BL Lacertae, a well-studied blazar in the background of the Lacerta (Lizard) constellation, defies this traditional classification system. Astronomers have long believed that blazars could be reliably grouped based on their emission properties, but new observati ... read more

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Astronomers Reveal Detailed 3D Map of Cosmic Dust
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 14, 2025
Observing distant stars and galaxies comes with a challenge: how much of what we see is affected by cosmic dust? The presence of interstellar dust clouds can make celestial objects appear redder and ... more
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Understanding gamma rays in our universe through StarBurst
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2025
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed StarBurst, a small satellite (SmallSat) instrument for NASA's StarBurst Multim ... more
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Signal Acquired NASA SPHEREx Begins Science Mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2025
NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) mission has successfully established communication with ground controllers, confirming th ... more
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Planetary system discovered around Barnard's Star
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2025
For over a century, astronomers have been intrigued by Barnard's Star, the closest single-star system to Earth, in their quest to identify planetary bodies orbiting it. Initially observed in 1916 by ... more
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Signs of alien life may be hiding in these gases
Riverside CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2025
Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like Earth and gases rarely considered in the search for extraterrestrials. ... more
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SpaceX, NASA launch two missions to 'collect data' on galaxies, sun
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 12, 2025
NASA and SpaceX successfully launched their SPHEREx and PUNCH missions into orbit Tuesday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, 24 hours after poor weather and a technical issue scrubbed both missions. ... more
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Small and large planets have significantly different upbringings
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2025
The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star. Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, ... more
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Astronomer finds gas giant exoplanets formed earlier than previously thought
Columbus OH (SPX) Mar 11, 2025
A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, according to new research. The Ohio State University study's result ... more

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Beyond our solar system scientists uncover potential new exoplanet
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 11, 2025
Researchers from UNSW Sydney have identified a possible new exoplanet-an extrasolar planet-through an approach called transit timing variation (TTV). This technique enabled them to detect subtle shi ... more
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Gravity from Entropy A Radical New Framework for Quantum Gravity
London, UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2025
A groundbreaking study published in Physical Review D by Professor Ginestra Bianconi of Queen Mary University of London introduces a revolutionary approach to understanding gravity through quantum r ... more
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U of A-built instrument reveals pictures of 'baby planets
Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 11, 2025
With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might have looked like in its infancy are lost to time. Taking advantage of a so ... more
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James Webb Telescope reveals planet-forming disks can last longer than previously thought
Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 05, 2025
If there were such a thing as a photo album of the universe, it might include snapshots of pancake-like disks of gas and dust, swirling around newly formed stars across the Milky Way. Known as plane ... more
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Mysterious Icy Objects in Interstellar Space Defy Known Classifications
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 05, 2025
The origins of organic molecules-key components of life-remain an open question in astronomy and planetary science. Ice in interstellar environments plays a crucial role in this puzzle, as atoms and ... more
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Neural Network Rapidly Deciphers Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Stars
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2025
Binary neutron star mergers, occurring millions of light-years away, generate complex gravitational waves that challenge conventional data analysis methods. These signals can span minutes in current ... more
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NASA Turns Off Voyager Science Instruments to Prolong Mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2025
NASA has implemented energy-saving measures to keep the Voyager spacecraft operational for as long as possible, despite their decreasing power supply. On February 25, mission engineers at NASA ... more
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Adaptation to extreme conditions thermal water biofilm studies could help understand ancient ecosystems
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 11, 2025
Hungarian scientists have uncovered distinctive bacterial communities in thermal waters, offering key insights into the processes behind stromatolite development, some of Earth's most ancient rock f ... more
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New photon-avalanching nanoparticles could enable next-generation optical computers
Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2025
A research team co-led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University, and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid has developed a new optical computing material from photon ava ... more
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NASA Webb Unveils Atmospheric Complexity of Isolated Super-Jupiter
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2025
An international team of scientists has determined that the fluctuating brightness of SIMP 0136, a free-floating planetary-mass object, results from a complex interplay of atmospheric factors rather ... more
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How Life Emerged on Early Earth
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 01, 2025
Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in Southwestern Germany are shedding new light on how life might have developed on early Earth. Their latest findings challenge long-standing t ... more
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Star Mergers' Magnetic Outflows Spawn Universe's Highest-Energy Particles
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2025
Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) are the most energetic particles known in the universe, with energies exceeding those attainable by human-made accelerators by more than a million times. Despit ... more
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New Constraints on Dark Matter Properties from Latest Observations
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 01, 2025
A research team from Tokyo Metropolitan University has made significant progress in the ongoing search for dark matter. Utilizing advanced spectrographic technology and the Magellan Clay Telescope, ... more
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MIT physicists find unexpected crystals of electrons in new ultrathin material
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 01, 2025
MIT physicists report the unexpected discovery of electrons forming crystalline structures in a material only billionths of a meter thick. The work adds to a gold mine of discoveries originating fro ... more
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MSU forges strategic partnership to solve the mystery of how planets are formed
East Lansing MI (SPX) Feb 28, 2025
Astronomers have long grappled with the question, How do planets form? A new collaboration among Michigan State University, Arizona State University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will s ... more
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Young Star Clusters Spawn Free-Floating Planetary-Mass Objects
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 28, 2025
Planetary-mass objects (PMOs) are celestial wanderers, freely drifting through space without being bound to any star. Weighing less than 13 times the mass of Jupiter, these objects have been observe ... more
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Can we find floating vegetation on ocean planets
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 28, 2025
Astronomical research has identified nearly 6,000 exoplanets, some of which reside in habitable zones where liquid water may exist on their surfaces. The quest to detect life on these distant worlds ... more
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NASA's Hubble Captures Andromeda's Dynamic Galactic Ecosystem
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2025
The Andromeda galaxy, situated 2.5 million light-years from Earth, appears to the unaided eye as a dim, spindle-shaped formation comparable in size to the full Moon. However, beyond this faint glow ... more
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Mission accomplished for Integral, ESA's gamma-ray telescope
Paris (ESA) Feb 27, 2025
The European Space Agency's gamma-ray telescope ends its observations next 28th February. During its 22 years in space, Integral has reshaped our view of the most dramatic events in the Universe. Th ... more
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The Galactic Voyage of Our Solar System
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 26, 2025
An international team of researchers, led by the University of Vienna, has determined that our Solar System journeyed through the Orion star-forming complex, a key structure within the Radcliffe Wav ... more
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Today's forecast Partially cloudy skies on an ultra-hot Neptune
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2025
New insights into the extreme atmosphere of LTT 9779 b, a rare ultra-hot Neptune, have emerged from observations conducted using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Led by Louis-Philippe Coulombe ... more
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UAH team determine local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 26, 2025
Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), and her team have pioneered the use of gravitational acceleration ... more
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What Hundreds of Millions of Galaxies Can Teach Us About the Big Bang
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2025
Soon, a new cone-shaped spacecraft will launch into space on a mission to chart the skies like never before. Called SPHEREx (for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reioniza ... more
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