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Giant Craters May Reveal if Psyche is a Lost Planetary Core

When we think of asteroids, we almost immediately think of giant rocks bouncing around like the iconic chase scene in Empire Strikes Back, and we often hear how they are remnants from the birth of the solar system. While the asteroids that comprise the Main Asteroid Belt of our solar system are not only spread far apart from each other, they are also not all made of rock. One asteroid approximately the size of the State of Massachusetts called 16 Psyche is made of metal, which planetary scientists hypothesize could be the remnants of a protoplanet’s core that didn’t build into a full-fledged planet. But how did such a unique asteroid form? from Universe Today https://ift.tt/Au1MsCm via IFTTT
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Parabolic Flight Experiments Delve into Planetary Formation

What happens in a protoplanetary disk to create planetesimals around a star? We know the general story -- the material begins to clump together and eventually grows from dust grains to rocky bodies capable of sticking together to make planets. But, how does that dust begin the aggregation journey? That's what a research team from the Switzerland wanted to know. So, they did experiments aboard parabolic micro-gravity flights to find an answer. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/SXRDQtZ via IFTTT
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Rubin Alert Leads to First Follow-Up Observations and Detection of Four Supernovae

NSF NOIRLab has completed end-to-end runs of its ecosystem for following up on alerts from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The runs demonstrated how multiple NOIRLab-developed software tools, plus a network of telescopes around the globe, will enable quick follow-up observations of the countless transient objects that Rubin will uncover during its ten-year survey. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/AwGcljg via IFTTT
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This Ancient Star In A Low-Mass Galaxy Is A Precious Find

To understand the Universe we see around us today, we have to understand its past. Some hard-to-find ancient stars, called Population II stars, preserve evidence from the ancient Universe. Astronomers finally found one. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/uevGA13 via IFTTT
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Black Hole Mergers Test the Limits of General Relativity

We can now use the gravitational waves of black holes to test general relativity and look for evidence of alternative theories of gravity. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/lwWquAn via IFTTT
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How Will Martian Gravity Affect Skeletal Muscle?

Marie Mortreux, an assistant professor in the University of Rhode Island’s College of Health Sciences, is part of an international team of researchers studying how the Mars’s gravity would affect astronauts’ skeletal muscle. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/cTa7xKr via IFTTT
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Saturn-mass world discovered orbiting two low-mass stars

You just established a settlement on an Earth-like planetary body far from our solar system. You did your evening chores after eating dinner, and you want to go out for the evening view, which consists of two setting stars, reminiscent of the infamous scene in Star Wars. However, there’s one major difference: a large planetary body is in the sky. As you were aware before arriving, you’re on an exomoon orbiting a Saturn-sized exoplanet, both of which orbits two stars. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/Fk1tsKe via IFTTT
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