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Magnetar Flares May Forge Up to 10% of Galaxy's Gold

What can magnetized stars, commonly called magnetars, teach astronomers about the distribution of heavy elements throughout the universe? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how magnetars could be responsible for ...

Vesta's Secret: Volcanic Surface, But No Core

Asteroid Vesta is currently the second largest asteroid in the solar system, having been studied in-depth by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft between July 2011 and September 2012. But a recent study published in Nature Astronomy sheds new light on this intriguing world’s formation and evolution, which could ...

A New Molecular Hydrogen Cloud Discovered Near Solar System

Astronomers have made an incredible discovery of a large molecular cloud located just over 300 light-years from Earth that is invisible to the naked eye but detectable in the far-ultraviolet range of the electromagnetic spectrum. This discovery was recently published in Nature Astronomy and could help better ...

TOI-771 b: A Rocky Super-Earth Orbiting an M-dwarf

Astronomers recently used a combination of space telescope observations and computer models to learn more about the super-Earth, TOI-771 b, that was discovered in 2024 using the transit method and orbits an M-dwarf star, which is smaller and cooler than our Sun. Additionally, they attempted to ascertain the ...

Super-Earths Found to Be Common in the Universe

How common are super-Earth exoplanets throughout the universe? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team of more than 60 researchers used a well-known but rarely used exoplanet detection method to ascertain the distribution of Earth-like exoplanets. This study has ...

Discovery of TOI-2005 b: A Warm Jupiter on an Eccentric Orbit

A recent discovery of a unique exoplanet continues to challenge our understanding of solar system dynamics as a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal discusses the discovery and characterization of a Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbiting in an eccentric (non-circular) orbit that experiences a wide range of ...

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