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Astronomers witness the birth of a planetary system for the 1st time (video)

Submit on Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 22:11

Astronomers have witnessed the birth of an entirely new star system for the first time. The budding planets are forming around the infant star HOPS-315.

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Our Milky Way galaxy may be surrounded by 100 undetected ‘orphan’ galaxies

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New research suggests that the Milky Way should be surrounded by as many as 100 undetected tiny and faint “orphan” galaxy companions.

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NASA’s sci-fi-looking X-59 feels the supersonic wind blow in test tunnel | Space photo of the day for July 16, 2025

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NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) tested a model of the X-59 experimental aircraft in a supersonic wind tunnel to measure the noise underneath the jet.

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Colossal eruption carves 250,000-mile-long ‘canyon of fire’ into the sun (video)

Submit on Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 19:11

A massive filament eruption carved a 250,000-mile-long “canyon of fire” into the sun — and sent a CME sailing into space.

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If aliens existed on Mars 3.7 billion years ago, they would have needed umbrellas

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“Our work is a new piece of evidence that suggests that Mars was once a much more complex and active planet than it is now.”

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Why is the moon’s far side so weird? China’s lunar sample-return mission may have figured it out

Submit on Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 17:11

The impact that carved out the moon’s huge South Pole-Aitken basin may explain the puzzling differences between the lunar near and far sides.

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SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from California

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 26 Starlink internet broadband satellites into low Earth orbit after lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on July 15, 2025.

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The precursors of life could form in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan

Submit on Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 05:11

New research indicates that cellular “pockets” that are the first step toward protocells, the precursors of life, could form in the methane seas of Saturn’s moon Titan.

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