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A disk of material around an alien planet may be forming moons as we watch

Phil Plait

Jul 22, 2021

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How are stars born? Absolutely gorgeously. See for yourself.

Phil Plait

Jul 16, 2021

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Supermassive black hole storms rage, and scientists just found the earliest one ever

Elizabeth Rayne

Jun 21, 2021

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Threading a cosmic needle: A fleeting glimpse of a dying star's final moments

Phil Plait

Dec 31, 2020

W43A is a rare beast: The expanding gas from a star that’s just beginning its final stage of dying. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tafoya et al.

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A planet eats a disk while the disk eats a nebula. It’s eating all the way down

Phil Plait

Dec 23, 2020

Artwork of a planet forming in a young star’s disk. Credit: NAOJ

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UPDATE: Life above hell? Serious doubt cast on Venus phosphine finding

Phil Plait

Oct 26, 2020

Processed image from the Japanese Akatsuki spacecraft showing Venus in ultraviolet (left) which emphasizes clouds, and infrared (right) which shows its thermal signature. Credit: JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Kevin M. Gill

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Cosmic flowers bloom as stars begin to die

Phil Plait

Sep 22, 2020

ALMA observation of the gas around the dying star R Aquilae showing complex spirals and arcs. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Decin et al.

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So, astronomers *may* have found evidence of life on Venus

Phil Plait

Sep 14, 2020

Venus in ultraviolet shows interesting — and difficult to explain — contrasts in the cloud blanket. Credit: JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic

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A triple-star gravitational dance creates ridiculously complex sculptures

Phil Plait

Sep 8, 2020

Observations of the trinary star GW Ori (right) show it’s surrounded by a complex system of gas and dust, depicted in artwork (left) showing tilted rings and warped disks. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada, Exeter/Kraus et al.

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The mysterious spirals of RU Lupi

Phil Plait

Aug 18, 2020

The very young star RU Lupi is surrounded by vast spiral arms of cold carbon monoxide gas that extends for 150 billion km from the star. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Huang and S. Andrews; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello

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The spectacular ins and outs of starbirth

Phil Plait

Jul 14, 2020

Stars and gas seen by Hubble (red and yellow) together with long filaments of cold gas by ALMA (purple) start to show a complete picture of star formation. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Y. Cheng et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; NASA/ESA Hubble.

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Wait. *How* big is Antares?

Phil Plait

Jun 23, 2020

A radio image of Antares using ALMA (left) shows the star’s immense chromosphere, and then shows that in comparison to observations with VLA (right) that show the wind blowing from the star. The material on the right is lit by the binary companion star to

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How did this galaxy emerge from the chaos just 1.5 billion years after the big Bang?

Phil Plait

May 25, 2020

Artwork depicting the Wolfe Galaxy, a massive disk galaxy similar to the Milky Way that was already well formed when the Universe was 1.5 billion years old. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello

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A tale of two comets: ATLAS shrugs, Borisov is finally weird

Phil Plait

Apr 23, 2020

Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) glows green due to the presence of diatomic carbon, common in comets. Credit: Damian Peach

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HD 101584: A binary star casts out a bizarre hourglass of gas

Phil Plait

Feb 5, 2020

Gas ejected from the binary star system HD 101584 forms an overall hourglass-shaped nebula. Colors represent velocities: Red is away from us, blue toward us, and green neither toward nor away. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Olofsson et al.

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