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Jul 9, 2020
FLIERs: Cosmic bullets or evaporating gas?
These fast-moving knots remain one of the many mysteries of…
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Dec 31, 2019
Are novae producing the Milky Way’s lithium?
Astronomers don’t fully understand the lithium abundances…
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Dec 10, 2019
Where in the universe is SCP 06F6?
A tale written in carbon, calcium, magnesium and nickel.
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Dec 2, 2019
Can black holes trigger star formation? Sure.
How a lucky discovery revealed the creative side of…
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Jun 20, 2019
Why does this nebula have spiral arms?
Here’s how astronomers might have discovered a stellar…
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Apr 26, 2019
Kepler-36 shows that planetary systems are less predictable than we thought
A collaboration with…
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Apr 1, 2019
How do asteroids get their moons?
It might be the same way Earth did: with a cosmic crash.
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Mar 10, 2019
What makes galactic hot DOGs so hot?
Starbursts, active galactic nuclei, and more — these strange…
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Feb 17, 2019
Galaxy X: The dark galaxy that doesn’t exist
Astronomers almost detected an enormous satellite galaxy…
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Feb 10, 2019
Here’s what I Zwicky 18 can tell us about the first stars in the universe
A blue dwarf galaxy only 59…
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