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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Astronomy & Astrophysics Fleeting Signal: A Tentative KELT-9b Magnetic Field Detection
Every giant planet in the Solar System wraps itself in a magnetic field, and spacecraft have flown straight through all...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Cosmic Pile-Ups: Stellar Collisions Could Have Seeded Early Black Holes
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keeps turning up black holes that look far too heavy for a universe that...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Second Dawn: Lumina Simulation Traces Helium Reionisation to Black Holes
The early universe was cleared of its fog twice. The first time, ultraviolet light from young galaxies stripped electrons from...
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Quick Reads Clean Bill of Health: Roman Space Telescope Enters Final Commissioning
Building a space telescope is the expensive part. Proving that it works is the slow part, and NASA's Nancy Grace...
Quick Reads Dry Run: A Dragonfly Simulated Flight Rehearses Landing on Titan
Flying a drone on another world is hard enough. Flying one with no pilot, on a moon too far away...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Split Lines: Mid-Infrared Light Tracks a Solar Flare Magnetic Field
A solar flare is magnetism letting go. Tangled fields above a sunspot snap into a simpler shape and release their...
Our Planet & Beyond Out of Shape: Compressed Water Ice Loses Its Cubic Symmetry
Nobody has ever seen most of what Uranus and Neptune are made of. Beneath their blue hazes lie deep layers...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Family Resemblance: Why Multi-Planet Systems Come in Two Kinds
The Solar System was once treated as the template for how planets ought to arrange themselves. Then exoplanet surveys turned...
Quick Reads Euclid Comet: A Galaxy Survey Telescope Finds an Icy Visitor by Chance
Euclid was built to photograph billions of distant galaxies, and it goes out of its way to avoid the Solar...