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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ season 4, episode 5 pulls a handbrake turn at maximum warp (recap)

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for “Star Trek: Discovery” season 4, episode 5 Speculation continues, with still no official confirmation on why Mary Wiseman took off to Starfleet Academy last week and there are all sorts of theories and opinions flying around social media. Some speculate that Paramount Plus is actually moving forward with their Starfleet Academy … Read more

Lego Star Wars deals: Savings on vehicles, ships, helmets and more

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The force will be with you, always, but there’s no guarantee these Lego Star Wars deals will be. We’ve highlighted the best Lego Star Wars deals out there and made sure there’s something for every Jedi Knight, Padawan and every budget.  There’s loads of great Lego Star Wars deals out there so it doesn’t matter … Read more

Gigantic Eruption From ‘Dragon’ Star Is a Dire Warning About The Sun

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In the search for “potentially-habitable” extrasolar planets, one of the main things scientists look at is stellar activity. Whereas stars like our own, a G-type (G2V) yellow dwarf, are considered stable over time, other classes are variable and prone to flare-ups – particularly M-type red dwarf stars.   Even if a star has multiple planets … Read more

We May Finally Know The Cause of ‘The Cow’, a Freakishly Exciting Space Explosion

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The cause of a mysterious cosmic kaboom – so bright it led to the classification of a new type of space explosion – may have now been revealed. According to an analysis of the 2018 event, nicknamed “the Cow” (AT2018cow), it was likely an unusual kind of core-collapse supernova that led to the formation of … Read more

Mysterious Object That Survived a Close Encounter With a Black Hole Is Unmasked

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A mysterious cloud that somehow survived a close encounter with a supermassive black hole has now been unmasked. According to a new study of the object, called G2, it’s actually three baby stars, shrouded in a thick cloud of the gas and dust from which they were born. This interpretation offers a very tidy solution … Read more

Exoplanets: Ultra-hot gas giant orbits its star once every 16 hours

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The second hottest planet ever found is being pulled into its star faster than any planet we have seen before Space 30 November 2021 By Jonathan O’Callaghan Artist’s impression of a hot planet transiting in front of its parent star ESA/ATG medialab, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO A gas giant exoplanet has been found that orbits … Read more

Hubble takes amazing photos of the Prawn Nebula and a newborn star

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By Gege Li Photograph Hubble Space Telescope These two spectacular images are some of the most recent shots of our solar system snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope. Its goals include investigating celestial bodies, such as planets and stars, and probing how our universe is evolving. Nasa, Esa, And J. Tan (Chalmers University Of Technology) … Read more

Exoplanets: Small Jupiter-like worlds hint we need to rethink gas giant formation

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We thought young gas giant planets would be large and low-density, but the gas giants around a star that is just 20 million years old don’t fit this model Space 2 December 2021 By Chen Ly An artist’s impression of a Jupiter-like exoplanet Alexandr Yurtchenko/Alamy Two Jupiter-like planets that orbit a young star are much … Read more

Planets: An unexpected gas giant is orbiting a massive pair of stars

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We thought that planets couldn’t form around stars with more than three times the mass of the sun, but planet b Cen (AB)b challenges the idea Space 8 December 2021 By Chen Ly The twin stars of the most massive planet-hosting star system to date, b Centauri, and its giant planet b Cen (AB)b ESO/Janson … Read more