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Miraculous Conception: Are Planets Forming Without Stars?
One of the most remarkable discoveries about exoplanets—planets that exist outside of our solar system—is that some of them...
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Three Years of SDO Images
SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly captures a shot of the sun every 12 seconds in 10 different wavelengths. The images...
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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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Astronomers Measure Nearby Universe’s ‘Cosmic Fog’
Researchers from the Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet have carried out the first measurement of the intensity of the diffuse extragalactic background...
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Mystery Cloud at Milky Way’s Center May Hold Clues to Star Birth
Near the crowded center of a mysteriously dense galactic cloud, where billowing clouds of gas and dust cloak a...
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Data Confirms Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy
An international team of astronomers says analysis of NASA data on a distant stellar system has led them to...
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‘Zombie’ Planet Shocks Scientists With Wild Orbit
The unbalanced orbit of a so-called “zombie planet” in a dusty star system has astronomers struggling to explain the...
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Earth-Sized Alien Worlds Orbit One in Six Stars
Four years ago, NASA launched the Kepler space telescope in an attempt to learn just how common Earth-sized worlds...
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100 Billion Alien Planets Fill Our Galaxy
Our Milky Way galaxy is home to at least 100 billion alien planets, and possibly many more, a new...
