#Researchers find younger age for Earth’s moon

“#Researchers find younger age for Earth’s moon” The moon is born. Credit: Ron Miller The moon formed a little later than previously assumed. When a Mars-sized protoplanet was destroyed in a collision with the young Earth, a new body was created from the debris ejected during this collision, which became the moon. Planetary geophysicists at…

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#Image: Hubble sees sculpted galaxy

“#Image: Hubble sees sculpted galaxy” Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Stiavelli Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, this image shows NGC 7513, a barred spiral galaxy. Located approximately 60 million light-years away, NGC 7513 lies within the Sculptor constellation in the Southern Hemisphere. This galaxy is moving at the astounding speed of 972 miles…

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#The Euclid space telescope is coming together

“#The Euclid space telescope is coming together” The VIS and NISP instruments on Euclid’s payload module. Credit: Airbus ESA’s Euclid mission has reached another milestone on its journey towards launch. Its two instruments are now built and fully tested. These have been delivered to Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse, France, where they are now…

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#Supermassive binary black hole hunter: SKA pulsar timing array

“#Supermassive binary black hole hunter: SKA pulsar timing array” The red curve cross the contour centers shows the evolution trend of SMBBH population from low redshift to high redshift: the gravitational wave frequencies increase; the gravitational wave strains decrease first and then increase. Credit: NAOC Recently, researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese…

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#Finding NEMO: The future of gravitational-wave astronomy

“#Finding NEMO: The future of gravitational-wave astronomy” Recent transformational discoveries are only the tip of the iceberg of what the new field of gravitational-wave astronomy could potentially achieve.Credit: Carl Knox/OzGrav/Swinburne A new study released today makes a compelling case for the development of “NEMO”—a new observatory in Australia that could deliver on some of the…

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