Wednesday 29 August 2018

How a NASA scientist looks in the depths of the great red spot to find water on Jupiter

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One critical question has bedeviled astronomers for generations: Is there water deep in Jupiter's atmosphere, and if so, how much?
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Unstoppable monster in the early universe

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Astronomers obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the team revealed that the molecular clouds in the galaxy are highly unstable, which leads to runaway star formation.
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Stars vs. dust in the Carina Nebula

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The Carina Nebula, one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the night sky, has been beautifully imaged by ESO's VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. By observing in infrared light, VISTA has peered through the hot gas and dark dust enshrouding the nebula to show us myriad stars, both newborn and in their death throes.
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