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A molecular-hydrogen cloud only 300 light-years away spans roughly 40 full-Moon widths across our sky, yet astronomers did not identify it until 2025. Named Eos, it escaped conventional surveys because they search for molecular hydrogen indirectly through carbon monoxide—and almost all of Eos is CO-dark.
4+ hour, 35+ min ago (858+ words) Eos covers about 20 degrees of sky, but almost all its estimated 3,400 solar masses of molecular hydrogen escaped the carbon-monoxide surveys normally used to find such clouds....
Scientists Forced Water Into a Bizarre New State of Matter That May Explain Uranus and Neptune’s Strange Mgnetic Fields
10+ hour, 49+ min ago (575+ words) What happens to water when the usual rules no longer seem to apply? Scientists have recreated extraordinary conditions in the lab, uncovering a state of matter that could be hiding deep inside distant planets. Scientists have created a bizarre type…...
‘Odd couple’ black holes can find each other in space
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (477+ words) When two black holes find each other in the vastness of space, they can form a binary odd couple—and it’s more common than researchers expected. Scientists think most black holes are born when a star dies and its core…...
Help Refine Data from Space Telescopes with Artifact InSPECtor
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (186+ words) How do scientists studying space with data from a telescope hundreds of thousands of miles away know that what they are seeing is real? A new NASA project, Artifact InSPECtor, invites you to find out – and by doing so, to…...
Astronomy Picture of the Day - M83: The Southern Pinwheel
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (312+ words) Explanation: Beautiful and bright spiral galaxy M83 lies some twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra. Prominent spiral arms traced by dark dust lanes and blue star clusters lend this galaxy its popular name,…...
Ďáblice Observatory Marks 70 Years with Space Festival
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (356+ words) Want more Prague Daily News in your Google results? This weekend, Prague’s Ďáblice Observatory will be transformed into a celebration of space. To mark its 70th anniversary, visitors can enjoy a free festival featuring light installations, interactive activities and an open-air…...
Hubble and Webb Teamed Up on Distant Solar System Bodies and Found Fewer Tiny Ones Than Some Models Predicted
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (840+ words) NASA announced the joint Hubble and Webb results on September 8, alongside two complementary papers published that day in The Astronomical Journal. NASA says it is the first time the two telescopes have been used jointly to study Trans-Neptunian Objects, and…...
App State's Dark Sky Observatory Hosts Night Under the Stars Sept. 12
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (108+ words) App State’s Dark Sky Observatory Hosts Night Under the Stars Sept. 12 WataugaOnline.com Appalachian State University's Dark Sky Observatory will host Night Under the Stars on Saturday, Sept 12, from 8 to 10 p.m The evening invites guests to explore the observatory,…...