“We Exist Within a Colossal Sphere” –The Void that Harbors the Milky Way (Weekend Feature) | The Daily Galaxy Our Milky Way Galaxy exists in void –one of
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Month: April 2020
Double-Peak and Destroy: Accretion in a Tidal Disruption Event Reveals Itself
Double-Peak and Destroy: Accretion in a Tidal Disruption Event Reveals Itself Astrobites reports on the first confident detection of an accretion disk that formed after a supermassive black hole
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Swift Mission Observed Water from Interstellar Comet Borisov – Astrobiology
For the first time, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory tracked water loss from an interstellar comet as it approached and rounded the Sun. The object, 2I/Borisov, traveled through the solar
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Searching Pulsars for Planets
Searching Pulsars for Planets A new study explores whether there are any exoplanets orbiting the well-observed NANOGrav pulsars. Source: aasnova.org/2020/04/27/searching-pulsars-for-planets/
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Nineteen mysterious invaders from another Solar System spotted hanging around the outside edge of ours
Nineteen mysterious invaders from another Solar System spotted hanging around the outside edge of ours Plus astroboffins confirm ‘masked’ asteroid heading Earthwards Source: www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/24/oddball_asteroids_orbiting/
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New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet Two new separate studies published in Nature today have revealed that our second interstellar visitor, 21/Borisov, packs
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