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Laboratory experiments and simulations suggest that meteoroids streaking through the thick, nitrogen- and carbon-rich atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan can generate a small but significant amount of organic molecules.
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Simulations suggest that the disk of material that forms around a stellar-mass black hole as it accretes gas from its surroundings is supported by magnetic pressure and is thermally stable.
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Many galaxies with redshifts between 4 and 7 observed by JWST appear to be blue and dustless, supporting the picture of dust within galaxies building up over cosmic time.
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What was first categorized as a planet turns out to be a very low-mass star, barely massive enough to fuse hydrogen into helium; further study of the star constrained its activity level and rotation period.
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Adding a dash of dust to a ray-tracing model illuminates the ways that X-ray photons interact with dust grains, yielding results applicable to studies of dusty active galactic nucleus torii.
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The Wilson–Bappu effect describes the correlation between a star’s luminosity and the strength of a particular calcium emission line arising from its chromosphere.