Looking for the real sky in Van Gogh’s Starry Night
A proposed July alignment offers a fresh way to examine the painting, while letters complicate the attempt to give its sky a date.
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Researchers infer that GJ 3090 b circles its star backwards
A reported three-dimensional spin–orbit angle of about 136° puts the planet on the retrograde side of 90°, while its formation history remains unresolved.
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XRISM turned a displacement of only a few electronvolts into a measurement of otherwise invisible plasma racing toward a neutron star.
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