Astronomers Thought They?d Found a Red Dwarf That Wasn?t Hostile to its Habitable Zone Planets. They Were Wrong

   02 Sep 00:00:04  |  Universe Today

New research using Hubble archive data shows that GJ 887, the nearby red dwarf star system with two exoplanets, might not be as calm and "boring" as we thought!
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   01 Sep 04:37:21  |  buildersauckland

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James Webb is Working Perfectly! On the Ground. Next Trick: Doing it From Space

   01 Sep 00:00:10  |  Universe Today

The James Webb Space Telescope recently passed another critical milestone - the Ground Segment Test - and is on track for its scheduled launch in Oct of 2021.
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Beyond ?Fermi?s Paradox? VIII: What is the Zoo Hypothesis

   01 Sep 00:00:10  |  Universe Today

Another possible resolution to the Fermi Paradox: we could all be living in some giant "nature preserve" where the aliens are monitoring us!
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We Have the Technology to Retrieve a Sample From an Interstellar Object Like Oumuamua

   31 Aug 00:03:23  |  Universe Today

A white paper submitted to the 2023 - 2032 Decadal Survey recommends we create spacecraft that could rendezvous and take samples from interstellar objects like 'Oumuamua
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There?s No Chemical Difference Between Stars With or Without Planets

   31 Aug 00:03:22  |  Universe Today

Strange New Worlds Imagine if a star could tell you it had planets. That would be really helpful because finding planets orbiting distant stars ? exoplanets ? is hard. We found Neptune, the most distant planet in our own solar system, in 1846. But we didn?t have direct evidence of a planet around ANOTHER star …
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There Could Be More Rogue Planets Than Stars in the Milky Way. Here?s How Nancy Grace Will Find Them

   30 Aug 00:00:14  |  Universe Today

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SpaceX is Going to Hop Starship Again This Weekend

   30 Aug 00:00:14  |  Universe Today

SpaceX has a busy weekend ahead with three missions scheduled for Sunday, including a 150 m hop test with the SN6 prototype!
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Astronomers find 100 brown dwarfs in our neighborhood

   29 Aug 00:00:04  |  Universe Today

Brown dwarfs are smallish objects sitting somewhere between stars and planets, making them notoriously hard to find. But a recent citizen science project aimed at finding the elusive Planet 9 has instead revealed a treasure trove of these oddities, right next door. Brown dwarfs are weird. They’re too small to ignite nuclear fusion of hydrogen …
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