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Four New Brown Dwarfs Found in Gaia Data
Observations of 25 nearby stars with Gaia resulted in the discovery of ten low-mass companions, including four brown dwarfs, five low-mass stars, and a white dwarf.
Review: The Orville: New Horizons
Lindsey Odom reviews the newest installment of Seth McFarlane’s The Orville, titled “New Horizons” and presented on Hulu every Thursday.
Hidden Pockets of Gems
A new image release from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the majority of the red stars in the Liller 1 globular cluster shining behind blue stars in the Milky Way’s disk.
Hot Jupiters Form in All Sorts of Ways
Astronomers measured the relative ages of hot Jupiters using data from the Gaia mission and discovered multiple planetary formation explanations.
Magnetic Poles Not Getting Ready to Flip
New magnetic field models predict that the Earth’s South Atlantic Anomaly will disappear in about 300 years and the poles will not flip.
Long Live the Fernanda Tortoise
A large female tortoise was discovered in the Galapagos back in 2019, and genetic testing revealed its a species thought to have gone extinct in 1906.