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Brown Dwarfs. Artist's vision of a T dwarf. Credit: R. Hurt and NASA

Podcast Episode 105 l Brown Dwarfs – Planets, stars, or something entirely different?

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Brown Dwarfs – Planets, stars, or something entirely different? Scientists think they lie between the two and can't fuse hydrogen.

Brown Dwarfs. Artists concept of T type Brown Dwarf. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Brown Dwarfs – are they planets, stars, or something entirely different?

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What are Brown Dwarfs? Are they Planets, stars, or something entirely different? According to scientists, they lie between planets and stars and can't fuse hydrogen in their cores.

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Podcast Episode 104 I The Picture of the Cosmic Microwave Background

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Podcast Episode 104 is about The Picture of the Cosmic Microwave Background captured first by the WMAP and then Planck telescope.

Cosmic Microwave Background A picture of the universe

The Story of Our Universe in a Picture

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The Story of Our Universe in a Picture of the cosmic microwave background from Planck telescope from 380,000 years after the Big Bang. that shows what the early Universe looked like.

Catalina Sky Survey's images identifying Asteroid 2024 RW1. Catalina Sky Survey via X

An Asteroid Hit Earth’s Atmosphere

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On September 4, 2024, at approximately 16:46 p.m. GMT, asteroid 2024 RW1 entered Earth’s atmosphere near Luzon Island in the Philippine. This small space rock, measuring about 3 feet (1 meter) i...

This composite simulated image shows how M87* is seen by the Event Horizon Telescope at 86 GHz (red), 230 GHz (green), and 345 GHz (blue). The higher the frequency, the sharper the image becomes, revealing structure, size, and shape that was previously less discernible.

Highest-resolution observations from the surface of Earth

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EHT scientists make highest-resolution observations yet from the surface of Earth The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has conducted test observations, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/su...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover viewed these yellow crystals of elemental sulfur using its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on June 7, 2024, the 4,208th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The discovery marks the first time this mineral has ever been found in a pure form on Mars.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers a Surprising Yellow Green Rock on Mars

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Among several recent findings, the rover has found rocks made of pure sulfur — a first on the Red Planet.

A cave on the Lunar Survace

Scientists found lava caves on the Moon

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Scientists found lava caves on the Moon, a milestone in lunar research and with important implication for future lunar exploration by humans

This visualization shows C-shaped and reverse-C-shaped plasma bubbles appearing close together in the ionosphere on Oct. 12, 2020, and Dec. 26, 2021, as observed by NASA’s GOLD mission (Image credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio)

NASA Finds X-shaped structures in our atmosphere

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NASA Finds X-shaped structures in our atmosphere, in an electrified layer of gas high above our heads called the ionosphere.