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  • James Webb Finds the Chemical Seeds of Life in a Distant Galaxy

    James Webb Finds the Chemical Seeds of Life in a Distant Galaxy
    2026/02/13
    Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected a rich mix of organic molecules inside the dusty core of a distant galaxy.

    The discovery includes rare hydrocarbons and the first-ever extragalactic sighting of the methyl radical, revealing these regions as powerful cosmic chemical factories.

    Driven by cosmic rays, complex carbon structures are broken into smaller molecules that may act as precursors to life, offering new insight into chemical evolution hidden deep in the universe.

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    31 分
  • Gas Giants Around White Dwarfs: How Planets Survive Stellar Death

    Gas Giants Around White Dwarfs: How Planets Survive Stellar Death
    2026/02/11
    This episode explores new research showing that while most planets are destroyed when stars become red giants, a small number of gas giants can survive.

    By staying in wide orbits or migrating toward a white dwarf, these rare worlds endure stellar death—explaining why Jupiter-like planets are so uncommon around dead stars.

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    34 分
  • Primordial Explosions: Solving the Dark Matter Neutrino Mystery

    Primordial Explosions: Solving the Dark Matter Neutrino Mystery
    2026/02/10
    This episode explores a bold proposal suggesting a record-breaking neutrino detected in 2023 may have come from the explosion of a primordial black hole.

    Formed in the early universe and emitting energy via Hawking radiation, these exotic objects could carry a hidden dark charge—offering clues to the nature of dark matter and new particles beyond known physics.
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    34 分
  • : AI Takes the Wheel: Autonomous Driving on Mars

    : AI Takes the Wheel: Autonomous Driving on Mars
    2026/02/09
    This episode explores how NASA’s Perseverance rover completed its first Mars drives guided by generative AI.

    Using vision-language models to analyze orbital images and terrain, the system planned safe routes without real-time human control—overcoming Earth–Mars communication delays.

    These tests mark a major step toward fully autonomous planetary exploration and future human missions.

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    28 分
  • JWST’s Quintet: Five-Galaxy Merger in the Early Universe

    JWST’s Quintet: Five-Galaxy Merger in the Early Universe
    2026/02/07
    Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, this episode explores a rare five-galaxy merger seen just 800 million years after the Big Bang. Known as JWST’s Quintet, the discovery shows galaxies forming stars and interacting far earlier and faster than expected.

    A surrounding oxygen halo reveals that these collisions were already spreading heavy elements into space, forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies formed in the early universe.

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    30 分
  • Stellar Flares Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole

    Stellar Flares Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole
    2026/02/05
    This episode explores how the South Pole Telescope detected powerful millimeter-wave stellar flares near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.

    Triggered by magnetic reconnection, these bursts reveal how stars and their magnetic fields survive in one of the galaxy’s most extreme, dust-shrouded regions.

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    29 分
  • Einstein’s Law and the Dearth of Two-Sun Planets

    Einstein’s Law and the Dearth of Two-Sun Planets
    2026/02/03
    New astrophysical research suggests that general relativity helps explain why planets are rare in binary star systems. As close stellar pairs evolve, relativistic orbital effects create resonances that destabilize nearby planetary orbits.

    The result is a hostile environment where planets are either ejected or destroyed, leaving a planetary “desert” around tight binaries. Only distant worlds can survive—often too far away to be easily detected.

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    31 分
  • A Dark Matter Sheet Shapes the Motion of the Milky Way

    A Dark Matter Sheet Shapes the Motion of the Milky Way
    2026/02/01
    New research suggests the Milky Way and Andromeda lie within a vast, flat sheet of dark matter stretching millions of light-years. Using detailed computer simulations, scientists explain puzzling galaxy motions that once seemed to defy gravity.

    This planar structure—bounded by enormous cosmic voids—allows nearby galaxies to follow the universe’s expansion despite strong local gravity, bringing theory and observation into rare alignment in our cosmic neighborhood.
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    35 分