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New Webb image reveals dusty disk like never seen before      (via sciencedaily.com) 

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the inner workings of a dusty disk surrounding a nearby red dwarf star. These observations represent the first time the previously known disk has been imaged at these infrared wavelengths of light. They also provide clues to the composition of the disk.

Space: Exploration Space: Structures and Features Space: The Solar System
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NASA's Webb confirms its first exoplanet      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own, clocking in at 99% of Earth's diameter.

Space: Exploration Space: Structures and Features Space: The Solar System
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Scientists study life origins by simulating a cosmic evolution      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Amino acids make up millions of proteins that drive the chemical gears of life, including essential bodily functions in animals. Because of amino acids' relationship to living things scientists are eager to understand the origins of these molecules. After all, amino acids may have helped spawn life on Earth after being delivered here about 4 billion years ago by pieces of asteroids or comets.

Offbeat: Paleontology and Archeology Space: Exploration Space: The Solar System
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Origins of the building blocks of life      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A new study posits that interstellar cloud conditions may have played a significant role on the presence of key building blocks of life in the solar system.

Space: Exploration Space: Structures and Features Space: The Solar System
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Planetary system's second Earth-size world discovered      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star -- the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet's surface. The world is 95% Earth's size and likely rocky.

Space: Exploration Space: The Solar System
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Scientists find evidence for magnetic reconnection between Ganymede and Jupiter      (via sciencedaily.com) 

In June 2021, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew close to Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, observing evidence of magnetic reconnection. A team has used Juno data to examine the electron and ion particles and magnetic fields as the magnetic field lines of Jupiter and Ganymede merged, snapped and reoriented, heating and accelerating the charged particles in the region.

Space: Cosmology Space: Exploration
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Wide diversity of galaxies in the early universe      (via sciencedaily.com) 

New data have revealed that the structures of galaxies in the early universe were much more diverse and mature than previously known. JWST's ability to see faint high redshift galaxies in sharper detail than Hubble allowed the team of researchers to resolve more features and see a wide mix of galaxies.

Space: Exploration Space: Structures and Features
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Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way's stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light years from Earth, almost half the distance to our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, which is about 2.5 million light years away.

Space: Cosmology Space: Exploration Space: Structures and Features
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Scientists find pair of black holes dining together in nearby galaxy merger      (via sciencedaily.com) 

While studying a nearby pair of merging galaxies scientists have discovered two supermassive black holes growing simultaneously near the center of the newly coalescing galaxy. These super-hungry giants are the closest together that scientists have ever observed in multiple wavelengths. What's more, the new research reveals that binary black holes and the galaxy mergers that create them may be surprisingly commonplace in the Universe.

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NASA's retired Compton mission reveals superheavy neutron stars      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief existence of a superheavy neutron star shortly before it collapsed into a black hole. This fleeting, massive object likely formed from the collision of two neutron stars.

Space: Exploration Space: Structures and Features
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Galactic shock is shaping Stephan's Quintet in mysterious ways      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Shockwaves resulting from the violent collision between an intruder galaxy and Stephan's Quintet are helping astronomers to understand how turbulence influences gas in the intergalactic medium. New observations have revealed that a sonic boom several times the size of the Milky Way has kick-started a recycling plant for warm and cold molecular hydrogen gas. What's more, scientists uncovered the break-up of a giant cloud into a fog of warm gas, the possible collision of two clouds forming a splash of warm gas around them, and the formation of a new galaxy.

Space: Cosmology Space: Exploration Space: Structures and Features
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Searching for the earliest galaxies in the universe      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Astronomers have used data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Early Release Observations and discovered 87 galaxies that could be the earliest known galaxies in the universe. The finding moves the astronomers one step closer to finding out when galaxies first appeared in the universe -- about 200-400 million years after the Big Bang.

Space: Cosmology Space: Exploration Space: Structures and Features
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NASA's Webb Telescope reveals links between galaxies near and far      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A new analysis of distant galaxies imaged by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows that they are extremely young and share some remarkable similarities to 'green peas,' a rare class of small galaxies in our cosmic backyard.

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Physicists confirm effective wave growth theory in space      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Physicists have used spacecraft data to confirm an important theory of plasma physics that improves our understanding of space weather.

Energy: Alternative Fuels Space: Exploration
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Space solar power technology demo launched into orbit      (via sciencedaily.com) 

The launch represents the first in-situ test of the technology to harvest solar energy in space and transmit it to Earth.

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Experimentalists: Sorry, no oxygen required to make these minerals on Mars      (via sciencedaily.com) 

When NASA's Mars rovers found manganese oxides in rocks in the Gale and Endeavor craters on Mars in 2014, the discovery sparked some scientists to suggest that the red planet might have once had more oxygen in its atmosphere billions of years ago. But a new experimental study upends this view. Scientists discovered that under Mars-like conditions, manganese oxides can be readily formed without atmospheric oxygen.

Space: Exploration
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Loon stratospheric balloons confirm wind data from Aeolus      (via sciencedaily.com) 

ESA's novel Aeolus satellite reliably measures wind speed also in higher air layers and thus in a region of the atmosphere where other direct global wind measurements are relatively sparse. This is the result of a study for which data from the satellite were compared with wind observations from stratospheric balloons. Stratospheric balloons would provide highly accurate data on the horizontal wind speed and are therefore also suitable for the validation of future satellite missions.

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Ancient asteroid grains provide insight into the evolution of our solar system      (via sciencedaily.com) 

The UK's national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, was used by a large, international collaboration to study grains collected from a near-Earth asteroid to further our understanding of the evolution of our solar system. Researchers brought a fragment of the Ryugu asteroid to Diamond's Nanoprobe beamline I14 where a special technique called X-ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy (XANES) was used to map out the chemical states of the elements within the asteroid material, to examine its composition in fine detail.

Space: Cosmology Space: Exploration Space: Structures and Features
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Webb Space Telescope reveals previously shrouded newborn stars      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Astronomers took a 'deep dive' into one of the first images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and were rewarded with a surprising discovery: telltale signs of two dozen previously unseen young stars about 7,500 light years from Earth.

Space: Exploration Space: The Solar System
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Marsquake!      (via sciencedaily.com) 

The quake lasted four hours and identified layering in the crust that could indicate a meteoroid impact. The 4.7 magnitude temblor happened in May 2022 and released five times more energy than any previously recorded quake on Mars. Mapping the seismic activity on Mars will help inform scientists where and how to build structures to ensure the safety of future human explorers.