Astronomers discover secret star at the center of gorgeous Cat's Eye Nebula | See the striking facial reconstruction of a Paleolithic woman who lived 31,000 years ago | Artificial islands surrounding British Isles were used for ancient parties, archaeologists find
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[] [Astronomers discover secret star at the center of gorgeous Cat's Eye Nebula](
[Astronomers discover secret star at the center of gorgeous Cat's Eye Nebula]( (Ryan Clairmont (left), NASA, ESA, HEIC, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) (right))
Nothing passes gas quite like a dying star. When a star roughly the size of the sun approaches the end of its life, it expels its outer layer of gas into a bright and beautiful bubble known as a planetary nebula. At the center of each bubble, a weakened star continues irradiating its surroundings, sculpting the gas into colorful shapes that astronomers have likened to crabs, reptiles and terrifying screaming faces. Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/28)
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[] [See the striking facial reconstruction of a Paleolithic woman who lived 31,000 years ago](
[See the striking facial reconstruction of a Paleolithic woman who lived 31,000 years ago]( (Cicero Moraes/Jiri Sindelar/Karel Drbal)
In 1881, archaeologists unearthed the skull of a human buried inside a cave in MladeÄ, a village in what is now the Czech Republic. At the time, researchers dated the skull to about 31,000 years ago and classified the individual as male. But they were wrong about the Stone Age person's sex, a new study finds. Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/28)
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[Artificial islands surrounding British Isles were used for ancient parties, archaeologists find]( (Brown, A.G. et al (2022); Antiquity Publications Ltd)
Just as waterfront mansions are status symbols for today's rich and famous, ancient artificial islands in the British Isles known as crannogs may have been used by elites to display their power and wealth through elaborate parties, a new study finds. A crannog is "an artificial island within a lake, wetland, or estuary," Antony Brown of UiT Arctic University of Norway and colleagues wrote in a study published online Wednesday (Sept. 28) in the journal Antiquity. Hundreds of crannogs were created in Scotland, Wales and Ireland, between 4,000 B.C. and the 16th century A.D. Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/27)
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[] [Superhot blob of gas discovered orbiting Milky Way's black hole at 'mind-blowing' velocity](
[Superhot blob of gas discovered orbiting Milky Way's black hole at 'mind-blowing' velocity]( (EHT Collaboration, ESO/L. Calçada (Acknowledgment: M. Wielgus))
Astronomers have detected a blob of hot gas whizzing around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy at an extraordinary speed. A powerful magnetic field surrounding the colossal space-time tear has supercharged the bizarre gaseous globule, speeding it up to 30% the speed of light, a new study finds. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A*, is around 4 million times more massive than the sun and stretches around 40 million miles (60 million kilometers) across. Normally, anything that gets too close to such a massive black hole gets dragged beyond its event horizon by an overwhelming gravitational pull. But the newly discovered gas blob, or hot spot, is moving so quickly that it appears to have formed a stable orbit around the massive cosmic void. Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/28)
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[Watch NASA's DART spacecraft hit 'bullseye' by smashing into an asteroid]( (John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
NASA's asteroid smashing spacecraft completed its spectacular doomed attack on a distant asteroid last night, and we already have three awe-inspiring videos of the event. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with the 7 million mile (11 million kilometer) distant asteroid Dimorphos at 7:14 p.m. ET on Monday (Sept. 26) in humanity's first attempt to alter an asteroid's trajectory. Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/27)
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