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Outer Space
Cold Spot suggests largest structure in Universe: A supervoid 1.3 billion light years across
In 2004, astronomers examining a map of the radiation left over from the Big Bang (the cosmic microwave background, or…
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Outer Space
Violent formation of the moon: New view
Within the first 150 million years after our solar system formed, a giant body roughly the size of Mars struck…
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Mars
Ice on Mars: Mars has belts of glaciers consisting of frozen water
Mars has distinct polar ice caps, but Mars also has belts of glaciers at its central latitudes in both the…
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Mars
Did Mars once have a nitrogen cycle? Scientists find fixed nitrogen in Martian sediments
Javier Martín-Torres, Professor of Atmospheric Science at Luleå University of Technology, is one of several researchers who has found fixed…
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Outer Space
Explosions of Jupiter’s aurora linked to extraordinary planet-moon interaction
On Earth, bursts of particles spewed by the Sun spark shimmering auroras, like the Northern Lights, that briefly dance at…
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