The Moon had volcanic activity much more recently than we knew
Eruptions seem to have continued long after widespread volcanism had ended.
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More water worlds than we thought might support life
Read more: More water worlds than we thought might support lifeToo much water on exoplanet surfaces would mean high pressure ices, not life.
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Astronomers think they’ve found a plausible explanation of the Wow! signal
Read more: Astronomers think they’ve found a plausible explanation of the Wow! signalMagnetars could zap clouds of atomic hydrogen, producing focused microwave beams.
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Meteorites give the Moon its extremely thin atmosphere
Read more: Meteorites give the Moon its extremely thin atmosphereImpacts that vaporize bits of the lunar surface maintain the Moon’s thin atmosphere.
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How Kepler’s 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery
Read more: How Kepler’s 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mysteryA sharp decline in sunspot activity in the 17th century has long puzzled astronomers.
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Webb confirms: Big, bright galaxies formed shortly after the Big Bang
Read more: Webb confirms: Big, bright galaxies formed shortly after the Big BangStructure of galaxy rules out early, bright objects were supermassive black holes.
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Astronomers find first emission spectra in brightest GRB of all time
Read more: Astronomers find first emission spectra in brightest GRB of all timeChance that first detected emission line is a noise fluctuation is one in half a billion.
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Astronomers worry time is running out for the world’s premier X-ray telescope
Read more: Astronomers worry time is running out for the world’s premier X-ray telescopeChandra almost didn’t make it to orbit on a dramatic launch of space shuttle Columbia 25 years go.
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Webb directly images giant exoplanet that isn’t where it should be
Read more: Webb directly images giant exoplanet that isn’t where it should beSix times bigger than Jupiter, the planet is the oldest and coldest yet imaged.
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Mini-Neptune turned out to be a frozen super-Earth
Read more: Mini-Neptune turned out to be a frozen super-EarthThe density makes it look like a water world, but its dim host star keeps it cool.
