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Simple But Challenging: The Universe According to Planck
ESA’s Planck satellite has delivered its first all-sky image of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), bringing with it new...
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The Last Big Bump Before a Supernova Explodes
An automated supernova hunt is shedding new light on the death sequence of massive stars — specifically, the kind...
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What If Earth Became Tidally Locked?
There’s a reason we only ever see one side of the Moon. It’s tidally locked to the Earth, presenting...
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Monster Magnetic Lobes Blow From Galactic Core
When discussing magnetic fields, images of the sun’s coronal loops or simulations of Earth’s magnetosphere may come to mind....
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Hubble’s Latest Mind Blowing Cosmic Pictures
The Hubble Space Telescope has been looking deep into the Cosmos for over two decades returning over a million...
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NASA Joins ESA Hunt for Dark Energy and Matter
NASA and the European Space Agency announced that the two organizations have partnered on the ESA’s Euclid mission. This...
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No Explanation for Pulsar With Split Personality
A pulsar that randomly and without warning dramatically changes its pattern of radio wave and X-ray emissions has surprised...
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Supergiant Star Betelgeuse to Crash Into Interstellar ‘Wall’
The red supergiant star Betelgeuse in the famed constellation Orion is on a collision course with a strange wall...
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Magnetic ‘Braids’ May Cook the Sun’s Corona
Scientists have long puzzled over why the surface of the sun is cooler than its corona, the outer hazy...
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Fermi Telescope May Turn Focus to Dark Matter
The Universe’s highest-energy light could finally yield clues to the nature of the “dark matter” that makes up some...