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Observations of 13 chemical species in protoplanetary disk PDS 70, which is home to two massive planets, provide evidence for planets accreting carbon-rich gas in real time.
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A search for hypercompact star clusters that may host intermediate-mass black holes comes up short, though some models predict ~100 of these wandering black holes exist in the Milky Way.
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Heating samples of meteorites from room temperature to 1200°C causes metals to melt and internal voids to form, which has implications for the fragmentation of objects entering Earth’s atmosphere.
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Observations of nearby elliptical galaxy IC 4296 from the MeerKAT radio telescope array reveal new morphological features dubbed threads, ribbons, and rings.
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Laboratory experiments and simulations suggest that the parent body of the Tagish Lake meteorite was >160 km in diameter before being split apart by collisions, possibly in transit from the Kuiper belt to the asteroid belt.
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A neural network has succeeded in identifying rare transient events in simulated data well before they reach peak brightness, potentially greatly enhancing our ability to follow up on these fleeting events.