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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

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June 2, 2020

Large Simulation Finds New Origin of Supermassive Black Holes

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May 22, 2020

ALMA Spots Twinkling Heart of Milky Way

figure: Artist’s impression of the gaseous disk around the supermassive black hole.

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May 14, 2020

TRAPPIST-1 Planetary Orbits not Misaligned: First Scientific Result by the New Spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope

figure: Artist’s impression of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system.

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April 28, 2020

TAMA300 Blazes Trail for Improved Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Figure: Vacuum chambers in the infrastructure of the former TAMA300 detector used in this experiment.

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March 27, 2020

ALMA Resolves Gas Impacted by Young Jets from Supermassive Black Hole

Reconstructed images of what MG J0414+0534 would look like if gravitational lensing effects were turned off.

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March 23, 2020

Star Formation Project Maps Nearby Interstellar Clouds

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March 9, 2020

Safety Zone Saves Giant Moons from Fatal Plunge

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March 5, 2020

ALMA Spots Metamorphosing Aged Star

ALMA image of the old star system W43A

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February 14, 2020

Galactic Cosmic Rays Affect Titan’s Atmosphere

Optical image of Titan taken by NASA Cassini spacecraft

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February 5, 2020

Artificial Intelligence tool developed to predict the structure of the Universe

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January 17, 2020

Here and Gone: Outbound Comets are Likely of Alien Origin

Figure: Conceptual diagram of this research.

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