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NASA Selects Tech Proposals to Advance Search-for-Life Mission - NASA
NASA announced Monday the selection of industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency's Habitable Worlds Observatory concept - the first mission that would directly image Earth-like planets around stars like our Sun and study the chemical composition of their atmospheres for signs of life.
#OriginsOfLife #RNA #Astrobiology
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The Same Recipe That Created Life on Earth May Exist on Mars, Scientists Say
While mysteries still remain, this is a significant breakthrough in the search for the beginnings of life.
How life emerged on rocky planets such as Earth (and possibly Mars) has been an enduring mystery.
#GalaxyClusters #CosmicHistory #Astrophysics
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Hottest And Earliest Intergalactic Gas Ever Found In A Galaxy Cluster Challenges Our Models
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The system in question is called SPT2349-56.
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Further ALMA observations and detailed modeling of the Red Rectangle
Aims: We aim to study the rotating and expanding gas in the Red Rectangle, which is a well known bipolar nebula surrounding a double stellar system whose primary is a post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) star.
#Astrobiology #SpaceResearch #OrganicChemistry
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Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? Research using machine learning offers a new way
When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing.
#Astrobiology #InterstellarObjects #ExtraterrestrialLife
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Scientists Announce Results After Scanning 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals
In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar system at far too high a speed to be bound by the Sun's gravity.
#NuclearPhysics #Astrophysics #XrayBursts
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Two unstable atoms are rewriting neutron star explosions
The results of the study were published in The Astrophysical Journal on December 1.
Type I X-ray bursts are intense and recurring thermonuclear explosions seen throughout the galaxy.
#Astronomy #StarClusters #SpaceExploration
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Webb Picture of the Month for December showcases a region sparkling like a Christmas tree
The ESA/Webb final Picture of the Month for 2025 is an image of a star cluster called Westerlund 2. The image displays stars in their different phases of evolution, including those that have formed protoplanetary disks.
