Outer Space
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The intergalactic medium unveiled: Cosmic Web Imager directly observes ‘dim matter’
Caltech astronomers have taken unprecedented images of the intergalactic medium (IGM) — the diffuse gas that connects galaxies throughout the…
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Asteroids cause dozens of nuclear-scale blasts in Earth’s atmosphere
Many explosions stronger than Hiroshima bomb but most occur too high above ground to cause serious damage Asteroids caused 26…
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First potentially habitable Earth-sized planet confirmed by Gemini and Keck observatories
The first Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star has been confirmed by observations with both the…
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Cosmic slurp: Supercomputers help astronomers understand and predict how black holes swallow stars
Somewhere in the cosmos an ordinary galaxy spins, seemingly at slumber. Then all of a sudden, WHAM! A flash of…
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Saturn’s hexagon: An amazing phenomenon
An unusual structure with a hexagonal shape surrounding Saturn’s north pole was spotted on the planet for the first time…
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