Alien stars and exoplanets
Hello, I'm brian. And I'm Paul. And we're both astronomers here at the Australian National University. In 1998, I was part of a team that made the discovery that the expansion...
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There are somewhere around 300 billion stars in our galaxy, so if the discovery of a single star is enough to make headlines, you better believe it's an impressive one. Scientists at the...
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Call it the $600 million gift that just keeps giving. NASA announced Wednesday the crippled Kepler Space Telescope put in some serious work, making the largest exoplanetary discovery ever. The space...
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Professor Charles Bailyn: I have spent a very enjoyable weekend reading your Pluto comments. No, that was fun. It is a surprisingly--it's a surprisingly deep topic. There are technical issues...
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Are we alone in the Universe? Or is life closer than we think? Here are the top 5 local locations where alien life is most likely. And by local, I mean within the solar system. I'm Sofie and...
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For centuries scientists and especially physicists have believed that we would be able to show why our universe is as it is as a necessary consequence of certain fundamental principles and laws. Like...
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We keep finding planets HUNDREDS of them! But once we find a planet... then what do we do with it? Hey everybody, Trace here with your Weekly DNews Space Update. The first exoplanet was discovered in...
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The Coolest Spot in the Universe - presented by Science@NASA Everyone knows that space is cold. In the vast gulf between stars and galaxies, the temperature of gaseous matter routinely drops to 3...
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The Kepler space telescope has undoubtedly been one of the most important space missions humanity has ever launched. Scanning a tiny patch of the night sky for the tell tale dips in light as a planet...
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NGC 6240: I Can See Your Halo Narrator (April Hobart, CXC): The Universe is enormous and full of empty space. Light from the nearest star outside our solar system has to travel through empty black...
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