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Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...
Astronomers just found the largest known object in the entire universe
Researchers say they've discovered the largest known object in the universe, a galactic superstructure called Quipu.
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Discovery of a giant spiral galaxy in the young Universe
They identified a giant grand-design spiral galaxy ... a process still poorly understood in the first few billion years of the Universe. The star formation rate of Zhúlóng is relatively low ...
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The magnetism of giant stars revealed
scientists conducted advanced numerical simulations of a star similar to the giant Pollux, in a CNRS Earth & Universe laboratory. These simulations have highlighted the reason why the dynamo in ...
Discovery: Powerful 'ghost particle' with clues about the universe
Neutrinos are ghostly subatomic particles that can travel in a straight line for billions of light-years, passing unhindered ...
Supercomputer simulations of giant radio galaxy formation challenge current theoretical models
Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...
Cosmic wildlife: Animal-like nebula across the universe
The face of this cosmic owl is created by a bubble of gas flowing out from an ageing star in UrsaMajor. Due to their round shape, such nebulae are know as planetary nebula - though in reality they ...