Articles for author: Sumi

Massive Super-Jupiter Discovered Orbiting Distant Star

Astronomers Confirm Giant Exoplanet Nearly Five Times Jupiter’s Mass Orbiting Metal Rich Star

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TESS Captures Elusive Transit Signal (Image Credits: Unsplash) 864 light-years away, researchers confirmed NGTS-38 b, a super-Jupiter exoplanet nearly five times Jupiter’s mass, transiting a bright metal-rich star and expanding knowledge of distant planetary architectures.[1][2] TESS Captures Elusive Transit Signal The discovery began with NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which detected a single transit of ...

NASA’s Webb Examines Cranium Nebula

Webb Telescope Pierces Through the Veil of the Cranium Nebula, Discovering New Secrets

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Cosmic Oddity Takes Shape (Image Credits: Pixabay) Astronomers recently gained fresh insights into a planetary nebula that mimics the form of a brain sheltered in a glassy skull, thanks to detailed observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Cosmic Oddity Takes Shape The PMR 1 nebula, also cataloged as PN G272.8+01.0, first drew attention more ...

Scientists discover recent tectonic activity on the Moon

New Moon Map Reveals Thousands of Young Tectonic Ridges on The Uneven Surface

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Thousands of Overlooked Features Come into Focus (Image Credits: Unsplash) Planetary scientists recently completed the first global survey of small mare ridges dotting the Moon’s vast basaltic plains, uncovering signs of tectonic forces that persist to this day. Thousands of Overlooked Features Come into Focus Researchers at the National Air and Space Museum’s Center for ...

Antarctica's 'gravity hole' reveals the evolution of Earth's deep interior

How Antarctica’s Gravity Hole Tracks Deep Mantle Shifts Over 70 Million Years

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The Mystery of Earth’s Weakest Gravity Zone (Image Credits: Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net) Antarctica – A vast region of weaker gravity beneath the icy continent has provided researchers with crucial evidence of slow-moving processes deep within Earth’s mantle.[1][2] The Mystery of Earth’s Weakest Gravity Zone Researchers identified the Antarctic Geoid Low as the planet’s strongest gravity depression, where ...

World's largest radio telescope array pierces heart of our Milky Way: 'This is just the beginning'

ALMA’s Epic Image Reveals Chemical Secrets in Milky Way’s Turbulent Core

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Unmatched Clarity in Galactic Chaos (Image Credits: Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net) Astronomers utilized the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array to create the largest image ever of the Milky Way’s Central Molecular Zone, exposing a web of gas filaments and complex chemistry near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.[1][2] Unmatched Clarity in Galactic Chaos The mosaic stunned researchers with its ...

The Ancient Megaliths of Carnac: A Stone Age Calendar or Something More?

The Ancient Megaliths of Carnac: A Stone Age Calendar or Something More?

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On a quiet stretch of the Breton coast in northwestern France, thousands of ancient stones stand in long, eerie lines, as if an invisible army froze mid-march. These are the megaliths of Carnac, one of the most mysterious and least fully understood prehistoric sites in Europe. People drive past them on their way to the ...

Microbes Rule the World: The Hidden Kingdom Shaping Our Planet

Microbes Rule the World: The Hidden Kingdom Shaping Our Planet

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If every plant, animal, and human vanished tomorrow, microbes would barely flinch. But if microbes disappeared instead, the world as we know it would collapse in a matter of days. It sounds dramatic, even a little unsettling, yet it’s the quiet truth behind almost everything that keeps this planet running. We grow up learning about ...

What Is Dark Matter? Scientists Are Closing In on the Invisible Universe

What Is Dark Matter? Scientists Are Closing In on the Invisible Universe

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If you could turn off every star, every planet, and every glowing galaxy in the night sky, the universe would look almost completely empty. Yet, strangely, most of the universe is still there, silently shaping everything. That hidden majority is what scientists call dark matter, and it’s one of the most gripping mysteries in modern ...

6 Incredible Inventions That Were Discovered by Pure Accident

6 Incredible Inventions That Were Discovered by Pure Accident

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If you’ve ever tripped over something and turned it into a win, you’re in good company with some of history’s greatest inventors. A surprising number of world‑changing ideas didn’t come from carefully planned experiments or brilliant “lightbulb” moments, but from spilled chemicals, broken tools, and problems nobody meant to solve. It’s a little unsettling and ...

The Power of Placebo: How Our Minds Can Heal Our Bodies

The Power of Placebo: How Our Minds Can Heal Our Bodies

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If you have ever felt better the moment you walked out of a doctor’s office, even before starting the treatment, you’ve already tasted the strange power of the mind over the body. It can feel a bit unsettling at first: if a sugar pill or a gentle word can change our pain, what else might ...