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Astronomers Detect Exceptionally High "Alcohol" Levels In Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
The comet contains higher levels of this simple alcohol than almost all known comets from our solar system.
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Snow Covers World's Driest Desert 'Atacama' After A Decade
Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its famous lunar landscape blanketed in snow.
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Astronomers Identify Previously Unknown Structure In A Galaxy About 2.4 Billion Light Years Away
Astronomers made the discovery using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA), the largest astronomical project in existence. The 3C 273 galaxy is a quasar, the nucleus of a galaxy believed to house a massive black hole at its centre.
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Young Star With a Deformed Disc Sheds Light on Misaligned Planetary Orbits
New research suggests that the misalignment of planetary orbits in many planetary systems may be caused by distortions in the planet-forming disk
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Astronomers Detect Exceptionally High "Alcohol" Levels In Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
The comet contains higher levels of this simple alcohol than almost all known comets from our solar system.
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Snow Covers World's Driest Desert 'Atacama' After A Decade
Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its famous lunar landscape blanketed in snow.
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Astronomers Identify Previously Unknown Structure In A Galaxy About 2.4 Billion Light Years Away
Astronomers made the discovery using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA), the largest astronomical project in existence. The 3C 273 galaxy is a quasar, the nucleus of a galaxy believed to house a massive black hole at its centre.
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Young Star With a Deformed Disc Sheds Light on Misaligned Planetary Orbits
New research suggests that the misalignment of planetary orbits in many planetary systems may be caused by distortions in the planet-forming disk
