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Nearby “Super Earth” May Be A Better Candidate For Life Than Previously Thought
[UT Austin] Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory, astronomers have taken a closer…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/782717/
https://www.europesays.com/ie/?p=570257 Nearby “Super Earth” May Be A Better Candidate For Life Than Previously Thought #Éire #ELT #Exoplanet #GJ3378B #GMT #Habitability #HabitableWorldsObservatory #HabitableZone #HabitableZonePlanetFinder #HobbyEberlyTelescope #IE #Ireland #MDwarf #McDonaldObservatory #Science #Space #SuperEarth #UniversityOfCaliforniaIrvine #UniversityOfTexasAtAustin
Nearby exoplanet just got more Earth-like and promising for life
GJ 3378b has moved closer to the kind of world astronomers most want to find: small, rocky, temperate,…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/671368/
https://www.europesays.com/ie/564557/ Astronomers Find Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Just 25 Light-Years Away #Atmosphere #Éire #Exoplanet #GJ3378 #GJ3378b #Gliese3378 #Gliese3378b #Habitability #HabitableZone #HabitableZonePlanetFinder #HobbyEberlyTelescope #IE #Ireland #KittPeakNationalObservatory #MDwarfStar #McDonaldObservatory #NEID #RedDwarf #Science #Space #SuperEarth #WIYNTelescope
Most Texans haven't been to this part of the state - the TransPecos. Neither have I. Bucket list, for sure.
The Texas Star Party Is the Darkest Place to Be 🔭
These Star Partygoers Come to West Texas in Search of True Darkness
For nearly fifty years, the Texas Star Party has built a community around a shared sense of wonder.
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Astronomers built the largest and most accurate 3D map of the ultraviolet universe
The space between galaxies is not empty. In a new map of the early universe, those “blank” stretches…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/au/522822/
Texas Standard broadcast from McDonald Observatory, highlighting Texas’ dark‑sky efforts, homeschool astronomy, StarDate’s legacy, and new research into dark energy. A look at how Texans reached for the cosmos.
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/today-on-texas-standard-december-12-2025/
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