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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.…
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A meteor contrail is seen over Chelyabinsk, Russia on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in a photo taken by a mobile…
Read More » Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes,…
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