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Star cluster NGC 6397 sits about 7,800 light-years from Earth

By BeckhamLangford

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Euclid spotted a missing band of faint red dwarf stars in cluster NGC 6397

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Astronomers watched the planet-forming disk around young star AB Aurigae actually rotate, the first time the spinning nursery has been filmed

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Sunlight takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth

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The Sun burns through about 4 million tons of its own mass every second

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The Sun fired an X1.0 flare and four CMEs are now slamming into Earth, pushing the northern lights as far south as Illinois tonight

By BeckhamLangford

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NASA’s asteroid watch flags every object that passes within 4.6 million miles of Earth, the official threshold for a “close approach”

By BeckhamLangford

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NASA’s Webb caught a supermassive black hole tearing away from its own galaxy at 2 million mph, and astronomers can’t fully explain how it broke loose

By BeckhamLangford

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On the pulsar planet PSR J2322-2650b, a year lasts just 7.8 hours and the world is stretched into a lemon shape by its dead star’s brutal gravity

By BeckhamLangford

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NASA’s asteroid watch tracks every object that passes within 4.6 million miles of Earth, the threshold for a “close approach”

By BeckhamLangford

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NASA’s Webb made the first direct detection of methane streaming off interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, chemistry unlike anything formed inside our solar system

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A residual solar cloud from a June 2 flare may graze Earth’s field tonight, keeping a chance of northern-tier auroras alive as the week’s G3 storm winds down

By BeckhamLangford

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On WASP-94A b, 700 light-years away, Webb saw mornings cloaked in rock-mineral clouds that burn off to clear skies by evening

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NASA’s Webb confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole inside a galaxy seen in the early universe, challenging theories of how the two form together

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NASA’s Webb zoomed in on a black hole feeding at full tilt, a clue that may finally explain the mysterious “little red dots” scattered across the early universe

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Keck and Webb together caught the first galaxy-wide wobbling black hole jet, sweeping cooler gas thousands of light-years across galaxy VV 340a

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Earth-directed CMEs from sunspot region 4455 arrive late June 4 and a second wave follows, peaking the G3 aurora threat into June 5

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Oxford astronomers measured 15,500 mph winds on seven hot Jupiters, the cleanest evidence yet that exoplanet weather is shaped by magnetic fields

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A new stellar survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud shows the dwarf galaxy is being torn outward by tidal pull from its larger neighbor

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On June 17 the crescent Moon will cover Venus in broad daylight, visible from parts of the US, Canada, Brazil, and Venezuela

By BeckhamLangford

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