Illustration by Laurene Boglio Three new autism research threads drew a slew of congratulatory tweets this week. Let’s dive in! A 16-part thread, by Alessandro Gozzi, a senior scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology in Rovereto, Italy, describes a mechanism behind the sex bias in autism, featured in a preprint his team published on …
A newly discovered planet has the diameter of Jupiter but eight times its mass, giving it twice the density of Earth despite being composed mostly of gas. Not only have these characteristics of this “super Jupiter” puzzled astronomers, but they could also challenge current theories about planet formation. The exoplanetwhich lies about 310 light-years outside …
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December 17, 2022: The thick morning crescent is near Porrima in Virgo this morning. A nighttime display of the five bright planets begins to form. Photo caption – June 24, 2022: Venus, Mercury and the crescent moon before sunrise. by Jeffrey L. Hunt Chicago, IL: Sunrise, 7:13 a.m. CST; Sunset, 4:21 p.m. CST. Check local …
2022, December 17: Morning crescent, evening light display formation Read More »
The block’s newest space telescope spotted a blazing cosmic hourglass filled with vibrant color and hiding a fledgling star, or protostar, at its heart. The flamboyant formation within Taurus star-the formation region and the protostar it contains have been hidden from telescopes by a dense, dark cloud of gas and dust known as L1527. The …
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A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge have found that the formation of planets in our young solar system began much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets developing alongside their parent star. A study of some of the oldest stars in the Universe suggests that the formation of early …
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