Astronomers Track a Runaway Star and Its Planet Traveling at Hyperspeed
The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...
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Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...
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Star Trackers: Telling Up From Down In Any Space
Keeping track of position is crucial in a lot of ... (Credit: astrobackyard.com) It isn’t just in space where star trackers are useful, either. In order to take photographs of the Milky Way ...
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Two mysterious fast radio bursts originated from wildly different places in space
Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon may originate in diverse ways.
This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic—scientists have a plan.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
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Starlink satellite train: how to see and track it in the night sky
Related: Track the ISS: How and where to see it The megaconstellation developed by the private spaceflight company SpaceX may grow to as many as 42,000 satellites in orbit, according to the ...