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Life may exist on the most ancient planets in the galaxy, astronomers say
NEW YORK, BRONX (ORDO News) — New research in astrobiology confirms that the oldest planets in the Milky Way were likely born 5 billion years earlier than our Earth. This discovery raises interesting questions about the possible existence of an older and even more advanced form of alien life on these mysterious worlds. Astrobiologists argue that certain conditions are necessary for life to exist, such as the presence of oxygen…
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Astronomers discovered hundreds of destroyed galaxies in the Virgo cluster
NEW YORK, BRONX (ORDO News) — Astronomers working with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii have discovered the collapsing remains of 100 dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster. These observations reveal an important link in the evolution of ultracompact dwarf galaxies (UCDs), allowing us to better understand their origins. Astronomers have presented UCDs as “fossils” of ordinary dwarf galaxies destroyed by larger galaxies. This process causes intense gravitational interactions, stripping…
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The Oort cloud may be more active than astronomers previously thought
NEW YORK, BRONX (ORDO News) — In our vast space, mysterious aliens from interstellar space periodically sweep through the solar system. In recent years, traces of their presence have been seen, for example, ‘Oumuamua in 2017 and Borisov in 2019. However, the mystery of interstellar meteorites still remains unsolved. New research suggests the answer may lie in the Oort cloud. The Oort Cloud is a kind of frozen repository of…
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Astronomers complain about satellites
(ORDO NEWS) — An international team of scientists said orbiting satellites interfere with space observations. Scientists noted that at the moment they can relatively calmly engage in observations, but satellites sometimes interfere with research. According to experts, satellites passing through the field of view of telescopes can create bright bands in the images, which makes satellite images useless from a scientific point of view. “The number of satellites and space…
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Astronomers complain about the latest space telescope
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers are facing new challenges, all because the James Webb Space Telescope is working too well. Astronomers note that although they are incredibly excited about the advent of a powerful telescope, they have become more difficult to cope with the significant amount of data received by the device. The thing is that James Webb sends 50 gigabytes of data a day, compared to just one or two…
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Chinese astronomers have discovered more than 100 new open clusters
(ORDO NEWS) — After analyzing data from ESA‘s Gaia satellite, astronomers at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SAO) in China have discovered 101 new open clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. Open clusters are groups of gravitationally bound stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud. So far, more than 1,000 open clusters have been discovered in the Milky Way, and scientists are still looking for more. A team…
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Astronomers study 2 open clusters
(ORDO NEWS) — Using the Tubitak National Observatory (TUG) and ESA‘s Gaia satellite, Turkish astronomers surveyed Berkeley 68 and Stock 20, two open galaxy clusters. Open clusters (PCs) are groups of gravitationally bound stars that were formed from a single giant molecular cloud. So far, more than 1,000 PCs have been discovered in the Milky Way, and scientists are still looking for more. Berkeley 68 is 11,000 light years away.…
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Swedish astronomers propose a way to detect invisible meteoroids
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists have proposed a new way to search for meteors. This was reported by the press service of the Swedish University of Umeå. Every day, from 10 to 200 tons of material from outer space enters the Earth‘s atmosphere, consisting of dust particles and larger fragments – meteoroids. When a meteoroid enters the Earth’s atmosphere and burns up as a meteor, its material is dispersed into the…
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Astronomers baffled by ‘marshmallow’ planet with unusually low density
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers at the Kitt Peak National Observatory spotted a special gas giant exoplanet about 580 light-years away with the density of a marshmallow. It turns out that this could be the lowest density planet found to date. Interestingly, the planet TOI-3757b is also fairly fried, as it wraps tightly around a nearby red dwarf star. Red dwarfs are small stars whose cores are still undergoing nuclear fusion…
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Scientists are collaborating with astronomers around the world to study a distant galaxy
(ORDO NEWS) — A team of 86 scientists from 13 countries recently conducted extensive optical monitoring of the distant active galaxy BL Lacertae (BL Lac). Mike Johner, professor of physics and astronomy at BYU, was one of the astronomers involved in the project. Dr. Johner and student Gilvan Apolonio of Brigham Young University (BYU) have made over 200 observations of the galaxy with the 0.9-meter reflecting telescope at BYU’s West…
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Astronomers have discovered one of the largest relativistic jets in the sky
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers from the University of Western Sydney have discovered one of the largest relativistic jets in the sky. More than a million light-years long from start to finish, the jet poured out of the black hole with tremendous energy and almost at the speed of light. But in the vast expanse between galaxies, it is not always possible to achieve your goal. A Closer Look The galaxy…
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Astronomers first discovered a system with three suns
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists have discovered a unique system with three stars in deep space. Once there were four. The solar system in which we live is unique from our point of view, since life exists in this small part of the Universe. This existence is due to the presence of the Sun, around which all the planets revolve. But imagine a system with not one, not two, but four…
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For the first time in history, astronomers have directly measured the speed of a pulsar’s own motion
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers for the first time managed to measure the speed of its own movement of the pulsar. We are talking about the object J1124-5916, which is located in a young supernova remnant. Scientists have recorded that the speed of the proper movement of the pulsar J1124-5916 was 612 km / s. This explains well the model of hydrodynamic impact, since the neutron star is accelerated due to…
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Goose pulsar wind nebula reveals its secrets to astronomers
(ORDO NEWS) — Using NASA‘s Chandra X-ray Space Observatory and the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers studied the pulsar wind nebula, dubbed “the Goose”, which is formed by a young pulsar known as PSR J1016-5857 . The results of this study will help to better understand the nature of this nebula. Pulsar wind nebulae are nebulae formed by pulsar winds. The pulsar wind is made up of charged particles;…
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How astronomers are trying to “talk” to space
(ORDO NEWS) — The activity of scientists was not without high-profile scandals. An international team of astrophysicists has captured a stream of mysterious cosmic signals from a single radio source. We are talking about a series of fast radio bursts. For 47 days, scientists have registered more than 1.5 thousand such signals. A fast burst is a flash that lasts a fraction of a second, but its power is comparable…
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A black hole with a strange tilt has challenged the theories of astronomers
(ORDO NEWS) — A heavily tilted black hole has been discovered in the Milky Way galaxy that challenges current theories of how these objects formed. The black hole and its companion star are a binary system, designated MAXI J1820+070, about 10,000 light-years from Earth. This system was first discovered by NASA‘s Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2018, but recent observations made with the Northern Optical Telescope in the Canary Islands have…
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Huge cluster of dead galaxies discovered by astronomers
(ORDO NEWS) — The scientific journal The Astrophysical Journal published a study by a group of scientists from different countries who discovered a large cluster of dead galaxies in the distant depths of space. According to scientists, the discovered array was formed during the birth of the early Universe and is gradually increasing its scale. Scientists have nicknamed the protocluster MAGAZ3NE J095924+022537. It is reported that it is located at…
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Astronomers have discovered a graveyard of dead galaxies
(ORDO NEWS) — An international team of astronomers has found evidence of a massive cluster of young galaxies, most of which are now “dead”, in the Keck Observatory data. This is the first time astronomers have observed such an unusual phenomenon, and perhaps it will force us to reconsider the models for the formation of galaxy clusters in the early Universe. A cluster of galaxies is a system usually consisting…
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Last moments of the existence of the remnants of the planet are observed for the first time by astronomers
(ORDO NEWS) — The moment when fragments of destroyed planets fall on the surface of a white dwarf was observed by astronomers for the first time in the history of science. They used X-ray observations to detect the rocky and gaseous material left over from the planetary system after the death of the parent star, which falls to the surface of the white dwarf and is absorbed by it. These…
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Giant comet measuring 137 kilometers discovered by astronomers
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists named this comet 2014 UN271/(Bernardinelli-Bernstein). It has a size of 137 kilometers, which officially makes it the largest comet that astronomers have ever seen. The first pictures of Bernardinelli-Bernstein were taken in 2014, when she was spotted by researchers at a distance of 4.59 billion kilometers from Earth. This is about the same distance as the planet Neptune. Now these measurements have been officially confirmed. “We…
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Astronomers have discovered a lonely black hole in the Milky Way
(ORDO NEWS) — An international team of astronomers has reported the first reliable detection of a single black hole flying through interstellar space. A black hole was discovered thanks to the microlensing event, when a fairly massive object flies against the background of a star in the Milky Way and distorts the light from it. The discovery is described in detail in a preprint published on the arXiv website. Single…
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Astronomers join forces to fight back satellite ‘pollution’
(ORDO NEWS) — The number of active satellites in the night sky has more than doubled since 2019, from 2,200 to 5,000. This is mainly due to Starlink, a SpaceX project aimed at providing internet anywhere in the world via “mega constellations” of satellites. Since its founding, Starlink has launched over 2,000 satellites. Unfortunately, the thousands of satellites needed to create such a wide Internet coverage have a huge drawback:…
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Astronomers Keep Finding Stars That Should Be Dead
(ORDO NEWS) — The most massive stars in the Universe are also the shortest-lived. The more mass a star has, the more quickly it burns through its fuel reserves, resulting in lifespans that are less than around 10 million years. This fascinating fact leads us to a puzzle. Most of these stars are found relatively close to the regions where they were born. But a number of them have been…
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Free-moving black hole in interstellar space discovered by astronomers for the first time
(ORDO NEWS) — An international team of astronomers has confirmed that a possible microlensing event observed in 2011 was associated with the presence of a black hole freely moving in interstellar space – marking the first time an object of its kind has been detected in the history of science. Scientists have long believed that there are many free-moving black holes in interstellar space, but so far it has not…
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Astronomers have shown that new planets can be born from old stars
(ORDO NEWS) — When dying, some stars in binary systems can create a “secondary” protoplanetary cloud in which new planets appear. The processes of formation of stars and their planets are usually closely related. The substance left at the birth of a new star forms a dense disk of gas and dust around it, in which planets appear rather quickly, and the disk is cleared and disappears. The sun formed…
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Astronomers first discovered a rogue black hole
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists have announced the first-ever discovery of a black hole wandering in space, located about 5,000 light-years from Earth. The discovered object is 7 times the mass of our Sun, and it, according to astronomers, drifts freely in outer space. “It’s very exciting,” says paper co-author Marina Reykuba of the European Southern Observatory in Germany. “We can indeed prove that rogue black holes exist.” This discovery may…
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Astronomers accuse SpaceX satellites of interfering with the study of dangerous asteroids
(ORDO NEWS) — SpaceX‘s numerous Starlink satellites make it difficult for astronomers to capture high-quality images and may interfere with the search for potentially dangerous asteroids This is reported in a study in the scientific journal Astrophysical Journal Letters. It is noted that scientists considered the influence of Starlink satellites on about 300 thousand images that were taken at the Palomar Observatory in Southern California. From November 2019 to September…
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Astronomers have tracked the streams of galaxies across 700 million light years
(ORDO NEWS) — Everything in our universe is moving, but the time frame needed to observe movement often far exceeds a human lifetime. In a major study, a team of astronomers from the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii (IfA), the University of Maryland and the University of Paris-Saclay traced the movement of 10,000 galaxies and galaxy clusters, the dominant masses of matter, within 350 million light-years. Their…
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Astronomers propose building a neutrino detector out of the Pacific Ocean
(ORDO NEWS) — Neutrinos are one of the most elusive particles in the cosmos, second only to ultra-mysterious dark matter. They are made in considerable quantity — they participate in the weak nuclear force and they’re responsible for nuclear fusion and decay. So any time something nuclear is happening, neutrinos are involved. For example, the sun’s core is a giant nuclear fusion reaction, so naturally, it’s producing quite a few…
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Astronomers discover 1,000 strange ‘filaments’ of radio energy bursting from the galaxy’s center
(ORDO NEWS) — There are 10 times more of these structures than we realized — and their source remains a mystery. Researchers gazing into the center of the Milky Way with one of the world‘s largest radio telescope arrays have discovered thousands of mysterious strand-like structures never seen before. These structures, known as radio filaments, jut out of the galactic center in long, thin tendrils — some of which stretch…