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Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars.…
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Read More » University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away.…
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There is a “doomed pair of spiraling stars” swirling only 150 light-years away from Earth–practically our neighbor in space terms.…
Read More » Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could…
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A meteor contrail is seen over Chelyabinsk, Russia on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in a photo taken by a mobile…
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Read More » The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That's about as wide as…
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