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  • [ 1 June 2023 ] Webb spots vast plume of water vapor spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus News
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Month: September 2020

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Scientists precisely measure total amount of matter in the cosmos

28 September 2020 Astronomy Now

Astronomers come up with the best estimate yet for the total amount of normal and dark matter making up the universe.

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Juno probe captures Jupiter’s polar cyclones in all their psychedelic glory

27 September 2020 Astronomy Now

A composite, extreme false-colour image of Jupiter’s northern polar regions based on data from NASA’s Juno orbiter highlights a striking assembly of huge cyclones roiling the giant planet’s atmosphere.

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Listening to the music of the Milky Way

26 September 2020 Astronomy Now

Astronomers have turned the 1s and 0s making up images from three space observatories into sound, allowing them to hear the “music” of the Milky Way.

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Black hole’s shadow is wobbling, providing insights into dynamics of accretion disc

23 September 2020 Astronomy Now

The famously imaged shadow of the supermassive black hole at the heart of galaxy M87 is wobbling, opening a new window on the dynamics of its accretion disc.

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Researchers find exoplanet with pi-like 3.14-day orbit

22 September 2020 Astronomy Now

Researchers digging through Kepler Space Telescope data found an exoplanet with a pi-like 3.14-day orbit around a cool , low-mass star.

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Infrared map of Enceladus shows “tiger stripes” and hints of recent resurfacing

22 September 2020 Astronomy Now

Researchers using data from the Cassini mission have put together a new global spectral map of Enceladus, a moon with icy jets spewing into space from a sub-surface ocean.

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Join us for the Cosmic Clouds 3-D book launch

22 September 2020 Astronomy Now

Join us at 8pm BST (1900 GMT) for the launch of Cosmic Cloud 3-D, hosted by London’s Science Museum. Featuring a breath-taking lenticular 3-D front cover, Cosmic Clouds 3-D takes you on a mesmerising journey that tells the story of the birth, death and recycling of stars in nebulae.

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Giant Magellan Telescope wins grant to help develop advanced technologies

20 September 2020 Astronomy Now

The Giant Magellan Telescope Organisation wins a $17.5-million grant to help develop advanced adaptive optics and mirror alignment technology.

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Hubble captures spectacular new view of Jupiter and Europa

17 September 2020 Astronomy Now

The Hubble Space Telescope checks in on Jupiter, capturing another sunning view of the giant planet, its Great Red Spot and a colourful tapestry of turbulant cloud bands.

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In a first, intact planet found in close orbit around white dwarf

16 September 2020 Astronomy Now

In the first discovery of its kind, astronomers find signs of an intact Jupiter-class planet in close orbit around a compact white dwarf.

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  • Webb spots vast plume of water vapor spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus
    1 June 2023
  • Seeing the universe in X-rays, optical and infrared, all at once
    26 May 2023
  • A record-setting explosion as a supermassive black hole gorges on gas
    15 May 2023
  • Globular cluster mystery may be explained by short-lived ultra-massive suns
    13 May 2023
  • Jammed radar boom on Jupiter-bound Juice probe finally freed
    12 May 2023
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