Even galaxies don’t like to be alone. While astronomers have known for a while that galaxies tend to congregate in groups and clusters, the process of going from formation to friend groups has remained an open question in cosmology. In a paper published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Journal, an […]
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Astronomers Spot a Planet Unlike Any We’ve Seen Before Orbiting a Distant Star
Some 730 light-weight-several years away, all-around a star that’s a lot like our Sunshine, astronomers have identified a actually unusual exoplanet. It is really just a little scaled-down than Neptune, which could point out a gaseous planet… but it is really a lot more than two times as massive as […]