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AstronomyRecent images of two pulsars could shed light on the distinctive emission signatures of pulsars, as well as their often perplexing geometry.

21 points 2 comments submitted 1 day ago by drewiepoodle to /r/science

http://news.psu.edu/story/445639/2017/01/17/research/tale-two-pulsars-tails-plumes-offer-geometry-lessons-astronomers

AstronomyAstronomers have discovered that a star thought to be younger than the Sun is actually 12 billion years old.

16,064 points 1,299 comments submitted 1 day ago by vilnius2013PhD | Microbiology to /r/science

http://news.rub.de/english/press-releases/2017-01-16-astronomy-presumed-young-star-turns-out-be-galactic-senior-citizen

AstronomyA Monster Solar Storm Could Cost the US $40 Billion Daily

38 points 8 comments submitted 2 days ago by Seldain to /r/science

http://gizmodo.com/a-monster-solar-storm-could-cost-the-us-40-billion-dai-1791379797

AstronomyThe daily U.S. economic cost from solar storm-induced electricity blackouts could be in the tens of billions of dollars, with more than half the loss from indirect costs outside the blackout zone, according to a new study.

16 points 2 comments submitted 2 days ago by Wagamaga to /r/science

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/agu-esw011817.php

AstronomyThe sun has been in the same routine for at least 290 million years, new research suggests. Tree rings from the Permian period record a roughly 11-year cycle of wet and dry periods, climate fluctuations caused by the ebbing and flowing of solar activity.

39 points 4 comments submitted 3 days ago by avogadros_number to /r/science

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/petrified-tree-rings-tell-ancient-tale-suns-behavior

AstronomySpace Weather-Induced Blackouts Could Cost U.S. $40 Billion Daily

13 points 0 comments submitted 3 days ago by solly93 to /r/science

http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=50266

AstronomySpace-weather forecasting could improve with European satellite

6 points 0 comments submitted 3 days ago by amikehere to /r/science

http://www.nature.com/news/space-weather-forecast-to-improve-with-european-satellite-1.21305

AstronomyLarge stationary gravity wave in the atmosphere of Venus - 10,000-kilometer-long gravity wave

32 points 6 comments submitted 4 days ago by Quiglius to /r/science

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2873.html

AstronomyA giant wave in the atmosphere of Venus may be the biggest of its kind in the Solar System

59 points 1 comment submitted 5 days ago by sivribiber to /r/science

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38638067

AstronomyThe moon is older than scientists thought, UCLA-led research team reports: Formation of the Moon occurred within the first ~60 million years after the birth of the solar system.

18 points 4 comments submitted 6 days ago by GeoGeoGeoGeo to /r/science

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/the-moon-is-older-than-scientists-thought-ucla-led-research-team-reports

AstronomyA giant impact has been proposed as being responsible for forming the Moon, but scenarios that match existing constraints are improbable. Numerical modelling now suggests that instead a series of smaller and more common impacts can explain the Earth–Moon system.

16 points 3 comments submitted 10 days ago by GeoGeoGeoGeo to /r/science

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/10/study-suggests-earth-once-had-many-moonlets-until-they-merged-to-form-the-moon/

AstronomyEarly formation of the Moon 4.51 billion years ago

3 points 0 comments submitted 10 days ago by fastparticles to /r/science

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/1/e1602365

AstronomyDevice attached to world's largest solar telescope provides wide views that show comprehensive array of solar eruptions

7 points 1 comment submitted 11 days ago by BocceBaller42 to /r/science

http://www.njit.edu/features/innovations/big-bear-optics.php

AstronomyModeling pN2 through Geological Time: Implications for Planetary Climates and Atmospheric Biosignatures

2 points 0 comments submitted 11 days ago by burtzev to /r/science

http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2016.1537

AstronomyOur planet may once have had dozens of small moonlets, which welded together over the millennia into the object that’s visible today.

9 points 4 comments submitted 12 days ago by NinjaDiscoJesus to /r/science

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-many-moons-theory

AstronomyThree eras of planetary exploration

6 points 0 comments submitted 13 days ago by DarthHobbitJus to /r/science

http://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-016-0010

AstronomyPlanetary researchers using data from NASA’s New Horizons mission have found evidence of snow and ice features on the dwarf planet Pluto that, until now, had only been seen on Earth.

21 points 3 comments submitted 13 days ago by snikrepab_ to /r/science

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature20779.html

AstronomyTwo of the most powerful phenomena in the Universe, a supermassive black hole and the collision of giant galaxy clusters, have combined to create a cosmic particle accelerator.

40 points 1 comment submitted 15 days ago by drewiepoodle to /r/science

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/articles/2017/astronomers-discover-cosmic-double-whammy-/

AstronomyResearchers have concluded that the source of strange cosmic flashes of light called Fast Radio Bursts, first detected in 2007 and were for years too elusive to accurately track, originate from a place they didn't expect -- a small galaxy beyond the borders of the Milky Way.

84 points 17 comments submitted 17 days ago by drewiepoodle to /r/science

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38502607

AstronomyAstronomers have pinpointed the source of a repeating fast radio burst, FRB 121102, finding that it is coming from a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years away. The result offers clues to what kinds of cosmic events are generating FRBs.

15 points 1 comment submitted 17 days ago by vmjaggard99Victoria Jaggard | Editor to /r/science

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/fast-radio-bursts-galaxy-frb-121102-black-hole-space-science/

AstronomyA photometric study of the peculiar and potentially double ringed, non-barred galaxy: PGC 1000714

21 points 1 comment submitted 17 days ago by Quiglius to /r/science

http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/466/1/355

AstronomyScientists performed 3D radar imaging of Mars' polar ice caps for the first time, revealing previously unseen internal structures

27 points 4 comments submitted 18 days ago by MicascistoGrad Student | Geology | Planetary Geophysics to /r/science

http://library.seg.org/doi/10.1190/tle36010043.1

AstronomyObservation of quasi-periodic solar radio bursts associated with propagating fast-mode waves

9 points 0 comments submitted 18 days ago by CESRA_highlights to /r/science

http://cesra.net/?p=1159

AstronomyAvalanche statistics suggest Tabby's star is near a continuous phase transition

344 points 16 comments submitted 1 month ago by purabossa to /r/science

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-12/uoic-ass122016.php

AstronomyRubbly surfaces of asteroids might exhibit the "Brazil nut effect," sorting themselves something like mixed nuts in a can

10 points 3 comments submitted 1 month ago by scisights to /r/science

http://www.pnas.org/content/113/51/14465.full

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