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Astronomy & Astrophysics
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...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Last Light: NASA’s Swift Observatory Ends Two Decades of Burst Hunting
The brightest explosions in the universe are also among the shortest. A gamma-ray burst can flare and fade in less...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Double Flash: A Gamma-Ray Burst That Belongs to Both Families
For decades astronomers have sorted gamma-ray bursts, among the most energetic explosions known, into two tidy piles. Short bursts, over...
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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...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Lopsided Skies: Webb Maps a Hot Jupiter Atmosphere in Three Dimensions
Astronomers usually picture a distant planet's atmosphere as a neat ring of light, the same thickness all the way round....
Our Planet & Beyond Privatization and Space
I spent a considerable amount of time reflecting on what I can contribute as my first post on The Astro...