Friday 14 December 2018

A young star caught forming like a planet

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Astronomers have captured one of the most detailed views of a young star taken to date, and revealed an unexpected companion in orbit around it.
via Science Daily
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Mars InSight lander seen in first images from space

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On Nov. 26, NASA's InSight mission knew the spacecraft touched down within an 81-mile-long (130-kilometer-long) landing ellipse on Mars. Now, the team has pinpointed InSight's exact location using images from HiRISE, a powerful camera onboard another NASA spacecraft, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
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Tangled magnetic fields power cosmic particle accelerators

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Magnetic field lines tangled like spaghetti in a bowl might be behind the most powerful particle accelerators in the universe. That's the result of a new computational study that simulated particle emissions from distant active galaxies.
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