Alien Ice or Cosmic Relic? The Chilling Deep Space Discovery Puzzling Scientists
Scientists have discovered two enigmatic icy objects in deep space that defy explanation. Unlike typical interstellar ice ...
Astronomers find potential new class of icy interstellar objects
A trio of astronomers with the University of Tokyo and Niigata University has discovered a possible new class of interstellar ...
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Scientists Think They’ve Uncovered Mysterious Arms Near the Boundary of the Solar System
The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral arms ...
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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...
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Mysterious interstellar icy objects
Molecular emission lines from mysterious icy objects captured by the ALMA telescope. The background image is an infrared composite color map, where 1.2-micron light is shown in cyan and 4.5-micron ...
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Spiral structure discovered at the edge of our solar system can't be explained
Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...
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NASA supercomputer finds Milky Way-like spiral at solar system’s edge
NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time ...
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Oort cloud resembles a galaxy, new study finds
Feb. 23 (UPI) --A shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system known as the Oort cloud has a pair of spiral arms that resemble a miniature galaxy, new research suggests. Until now ...