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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Astronomy & Astrophysics Hidden Company: Rubin Doubles the Trailing Neptune Trojans
Neptune does not travel alone. Two clouds of icy bodies share its orbit, one running 60 degrees ahead of the...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Feline Shadow: Hubble and Webb Study the Cat’s Head Nebula
Star-forming clouds do not get to grow old quietly. In the Carina Nebula, about 7,500 light-years away, the most massive...
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...
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Quick Reads Every Watt Counts: Voyager 1 Power Swap Buys Time Before One Light-Day
A spacecraft built in the 1970s does not get spare parts. When Voyager 1 runs short of electricity, its engineers...
Our Planet & Beyond Moving Spotlight: TRACERS Shows How Magnetic Reconnection Shifts
On the sunward edge of Earth's magnetic field, the solar wind carries its own magnetic field into ours. Where the...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Hidden Company: Rubin Doubles the Trailing Neptune Trojans
Neptune does not travel alone. Two clouds of icy bodies share its orbit, one running 60 degrees ahead of the...
Quick Reads Two Dots: The Hera Spacecraft Sees Didymos and Dimorphos Apart
For four years, the best close views of the first deliberate asteroid deflection came from a spacecraft that destroyed itself...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Feline Shadow: Hubble and Webb Study the Cat’s Head Nebula
Star-forming clouds do not get to grow old quietly. In the Carina Nebula, about 7,500 light-years away, the most massive...
Quick Reads Island Hopping: Lucy Arrives Among Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids
Jupiter does not travel alone. Two swarms of dark asteroids share its path around the Sun, one running ahead of...