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News

Science–2020

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December 18, 2020

Compressive Fluctuations Heat Ions in Space Plasma

Artist’s impression of the ions and electrons in various space plasmas.

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December 8, 2020

Study Confirms Dark Coating Can Reduce Satellite Reflectivity

The trail of a Starlink satellite captured by the Murikabushi Telescope on April 10, 2020.

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November 26, 2020

Earth Faster, Closer to Black Hole in New Map of Galaxy

Position and velocity map of the Milky Way Galaxy

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October 28, 2020

Galaxies in the Infant Universe were Surprisingly Mature

figure: These are two of the galaxies in the early universe that ALMA observed in radio waves.

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October 12, 2020

Studying the Sun as a Star to Understand Stellar Flares and Exoplanets

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September 29, 2020

Second Alignment Plane of Solar System Discovered

figure: Artist’s impression of the distribution of long-period comets.

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September 25, 2020

Pair of Massive Baby Stars Swaddled in Salty Water Vapor

figure: ALMA composite image of a binary massive protostar IRAS 16547-4247.

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September 16, 2020

Unraveling a Spiral Stream of Dusty Embers from a Massive Binary Stellar Forge

Sequence of 7 mid-IR (~10 micrometers) images of WR 112 taken between 2001 – 2019 by Gemini North, Gemini South, Keck, the Very Large Telescope (VLT), and the Subaru Telescope.

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September 15, 2020

Phosphine on Venus – A step forward to understand biomarker molecule

figure: Artist’s impression of Venus and the phosphine detected in the atmosphere.

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September 4, 2020

Misaligned Planet-Forming Rings around Triple Young Stars

figure: ALMA image of the protoplanetary disk around the triple young star GW Orionis.

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August 31, 2020

Can Black Hole Fire Up Cold Heart of the Phoenix?

Artist’s illustration of the structures seen in the observations

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August 27, 2020

Rare encounters between cosmic heavyweights

SDSS J141637.44+003352.2, a dual quasar at a distance for which the light reaching us was emitted 4.7 billion years ago

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August 13, 2020

That Must’ve Hurt: Ganymede Covered by Giant Crater

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August 11, 2020

Classifying Galaxies with Artificial Intelligence

Conceptual illustration of how artificial intelligence classifies various types of galaxies according to their morphologies

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August 7, 2020

Stellar Egg Hunt with ALMA—Tracing Evolution from Embryo to Baby Star

Wide-field far-infrared image of the Taurus Molecular Cloud obtained by the Herschel Space Observatory and stellar eggs observed with ALMA (insets)

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August 1, 2020

Machine Learning Finds a Surprising Early Galaxy—Breaking the Lowest Oxygen Abundance Record

Image of HSC J1631+4426 discovered by the international team with the Subaru Telescope

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July 10, 2020

The Lion’s Roar: New Telescope Spots Superflare in Leo

Artist’s impression of the dramatic effect a superflare on a red dwarf star could have on an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting it

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June 11, 2020

New Method to Study Barred Spiral Galaxies

The distribution of stars (psudocolor) and gas (contour lines) for two barred spiral galaxies in this study, NGC 2903 and NGC 4303