Unveiling a 36 billion solar mass black hole at the centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens 🌌🕳️✨

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A team of scientists found a black hole that formed soon after the Big Bang 🌌🕳️✨

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Researchers in China have developed deep-space communications processing algorithms that will allow scientists to pinpoint probes with remarkable, meter-level precision as far as 180 million kilometers from Earth 🌌🚀✨

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Prospect of life on Saturn’s moons rises after discovery of organic substances 🌌🔬 | Scientists studying water vapor plume from Enceladus 🌊💧 find presence of complex molecules that could harbor life 🌱✨

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Dust from a crater on the far side of the Moon 🌕 returned by China 🇨🇳 has been found to contain traces of a meteorite ☄️ that rarely survives its journey to Earth's surface 🌍.

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A discovery about Saturn's moon Titan has challenged what scientists thought was a basic rule of chemistry. There, in the extreme cold ❄️, some supposedly fundamentally incompatible molecules may combine to form solids that have never been seen before in the Solar System 🌌, new research suggests.

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Astronomers announce discovery of a "Super-Earth" exoplanet 🌍 - 4 times the mass of the Earth 🌌 - in the habitable zone 🌱 of a red dwarf star 🌟 just 22 light years away 🌌.

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It rains on the Sun ☀️, the gigantic thermonuclear orb 🔥 that burns with the multi-million-degree 'fires' of fusion. This rain is made of superheated plasma, and researchers might have discovered its secret: quickly shifting flows of elements such as iron ⚙️, silicon 🪨, and magnesium.

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Scientists announce detection of the strongest and most distant black-hole flare ever seen 🌌 - located about 11 billion light-years from Earth 🌍, it is shining with the power of a whopping 10 trillion suns ☀️✨.

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The James Webb Space Telescope 🌌 seems to have made the monumental first detection of Population III stars 🌟 - first stars to form in the universe, shortly after the Big Bang - in a star cluster "LAP1-B" around 13 billion light years away 🌠.

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Mars had remarkably large river systems despite no tectonics. They formed when meteorite craters filled and spilled over 🌌💧🪐

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New Hubble images may solve the case of a disappearing exoplanet 🌌🔭✨

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⚫ A supermassive black hole, J1007+3540, located in a distant galaxy cluster, has reawakened after nearly 100 million years and is erupting like a volcano, spewing plasma.

🔵 The black hole is showing multiple eruptions stretching into the universe's past, with a small, bright interior jet indicating its internal forces are re-energizing, surrounded by older, fading plasma from previous active periods.

🌟 Led by Shobha Kumari at India’s Midnapore City College, the study analyzed data from LOFAR and India’s uGMRT, revealing J1007+3540 as a unique and spectacular example of an episodic active galactic nucleus interacting with its surrounding hot gas.

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James Webb Telescope Takes a First Peek Inside Uranus

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The best places to look for alien life.Scientists identify 45 Earth like worlds to explore for a 'Project Hail Mary'.

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Scientists backed by the Royal Astronomical Society have narrowed the search for alien life to 45 nearby Earth like planets, chosen for their similar size, temperature, and potential habitability, while also prioritizing those whose atmospheres future telescopes can study for possible signs of life.

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🌊 Caltech researchers Abdallah Zaki and Michael Lamb have found geological evidence on Mars suggesting a vast, ancient ocean that once covered a third of the planet's surface.

🌍 Their study, published in Nature on April 15, identifies a distinct landform similar to Earth's continental shelf as a key indicator, a feature stable over long periods and not formed by lakes.

🔍 This "bathtub ring" feature in Mars' northern hemisphere, coupled with evidence of ancient river deltas, strongly supports the theory of a large, long-lasting northern ocean that dried up billions of years ago.

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🛰️ Nearly half of all known objects orbiting Earth, at least 12,550 tracked fragments, are classified as space junk. This debris, traveling at 17,400 mph, poses a significant risk to active satellites and future space missions.

🇨🇳 China is the largest contributor to space junk, generating 34%, followed by the US and CIS at 31% each.

🔬 While most debris eventually burns up, particulates from materials like aluminum, copper, and lithium can remain in the upper atmosphere, potentially harming the ozone layer.

🚀 Efforts to remove space junk are limited, with the ESA's ClearSpace-1 mission being the first active debris collection initiative. Technologies like robotic arms and drag sails are under development.

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A small object past Pluto may have a thin atmosphere: « The possible atmosphere around 2002 XV93 would be a first for a small object beyond Pluto. »

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🚀 Six Landslides Discovered on Pluto: New analysis of New Horizons spacecraft images, published June 13 in Icarus, reveals six large landslides on the dwarf planet.

⛰️ Landmark Discovery: These are the first definitive landslides spotted on Pluto, despite its rocky terrain and gravity. They are located near the Sputnik Planitia plain.

📏 Impressive Scale: The largest landslide spans approximately 130 square kilometers, comparable to major landslides on Earth. Heights range from 1,500 to 2,200 meters.

🏃 Long-Distance Sliders: Despite their height, these Pluto landslides tend to travel further than similar ones elsewhere, suggesting lower friction on the icy world.

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