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Space: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Exploring the wonders of the universe.

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  1. When We Find Earth 2.0, What’s Next?

    We’re looking for another Earth—but how likely is it we’ll find a duplicate of home?
    By Waspie_Dwarf,   
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  2. An asteroid may have exploded over Antarctica about 2.5 million years ago

    Bits of rock may point to the oldest known midair asteroid disintegration
    By Waspie_Dwarf,   
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  3. A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone

    NASA Discovery Alert
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  4. NASA’s Roman to Use Rare Events to Calculate Expansion Rate of Universe

    NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
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  5. Telescopes Show the Milky Way’s Black Hole is Ready for a Kick

    By Waspie_Dwarf,   
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  6. NASA’s Hubble Traces ‘String of Pearls’ Star Clusters in Galaxy Collisions

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  7. Mimas' surprise: Tiny moon holds young ocean beneath icy shell

    By Waspie_Dwarf,   
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  8. What is Dark Energy? Inside our accelerating, expanding Universe

    By Waspie_Dwarf,   
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  9. Gamma-ray Bursts: Harvesting Knowledge From the Universe’s Most Powerful Explosions

    By Waspie_Dwarf,   
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  10. When Dead Stars Collide!

    By Waspie_Dwarf,   
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  11. Researchers spying for signs of life among exoplanet atmospheres

    High-tech telescopes search for chemicals necessary for life on Earth
    By Waspie_Dwarf,   
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  12. Fledgling planets discovered around a newly formed star

    Six-exoplanet system offers glimpse into planet formation and evolution
    By Waspie_Dwarf,   
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  13. Neptune-like exoplanets can be cloudy or clear — new findings suggest the reason why

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  14. Did young planets just get smartie-er?

    New research finds that young planets are flattened structures like smarties rather than spherical
    By Waspie_Dwarf,   
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  15. NASA-funded supermassive black hole research

    Research team studying electromagnetic signals from merging supermassive black holes
    By Waspie_Dwarf,   
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  16. Bright galaxies put dark matter to the test

    If cold dark matter theories are correct, Webb Space Telescope should find tiny, bright galaxies of early universe
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  17. Astronomers spot 18 black holes gobbling up nearby stars

    The detections more than double the number of known tidal disruption events in the nearby universe.
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  18. Hubble Views a Dim but Distinct Galaxy

    Hubble Image
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  19. Hubble Sees a Merged Galaxy

    Hubble Image
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  20. XMM-Newton spots a black hole throwing a tantrum

    By Waspie_Dwarf,   
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  21. Photographer snaps extremely rare 'green flash' coming from Venus

    By Still Waters,   
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  22. Hubble Captures a Suspected Galaxy Encounter

    Hubble Image
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  23. February’s Night Sky Notes: Constant Companions: Circumpolar Constellations, Part I

    By Waspie_Dwarf,   
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  24. Hubble Observes a Galactic Distortion

    Hubble Image
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  25. Hubble Spies a Spinning Spiral

    Hubble Image
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