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Simulating Meteors with ASMODEUS

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A meteor is a rocky or metallic body that enters the Earth’s atmosphere (or the atmosphere of another planet) from space at high speed and burns up; meteors that mostly survive the trip a...

Obscured Seyfert Galaxies

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Seyfert galaxies are distinguished by their bright nuclei and radiation from highly ionized atoms. Seyferts look much like quasars, but unlike point-like quasars the Seyfert host galaxies...

An Earth-like Stellar Wind for Proxima Centauri c

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Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun, and its planet, Proxima Cen b ("Proxima b"), lies in its habitable zone (the distance range within which surface water can be liquid), mak...

Carbon Emission from Star-Forming Clouds

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The carbon atom can be easily ionized, more easily than hydrogen atoms for example. In star forming regions, where massive young stars emit ultraviolet light capable of ionizing atoms, al...

A Massive Merging Galaxy Cluster

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Mergers of galaxy clusters are the most extreme events knwon in the universe, releasing the energy equivalent of up to a million galaxies shining for a million years. The shocks and turbu...

Scientists Uncover Truth About Luminous Infrared Kilonova

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Cambridge, MA - Scientists today announced that they have observed the most luminous kilonova candidate on record, a find which challenges conventional theories of what happens in the aft...

Feeding a Galaxy's Nuclear Black Hole

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A galactic bar is the approximately linear structure of stars and gas that stretches across the inner regions of some galaxies. The bar stretches from one inner spiral arm, across the nuc...
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