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Mysterious Interstellar Plasma Revealed by Twinkling Pulsars

Artist’s illustration of a pulsar. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne UniversityOccasionally pulsars—rapidly-spinning remnants of stars that flash like a lighthouse—show extreme variations in brightness. Astrophysicists predict that…

Astronomers at MIT pick up mysterious signal

DOUG: HEY, ASTRONOMERS AT MIT HAVE DISCOVERED SOMETHING THEY CAN’T QUITE EXPLAIN. ANTOINETTE: OK, IT’S A MYSTERIOUS RADIO SIGNAL PULSING WITH CONSTANT REGULARITY. STAY WITH US. THEY’RE CALLED FAST RADIO BURSTS, OR FRB’S, AND…

New Clues to Mysterious Formation of Hot Jupiter Exoplanets

An artist’s concept of a “hot Jupiter” extrasolar planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechAstronomers discover a new way of determining the relative age of exoplanets and prove there are multiple ways these planets form.In our solar system,…