Outer Space
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Black Hole Is About to Gobble Up Gas Cloud
Watching for a black hole to gobble up a gas cloud: Gas cloud’s fate illuminates growth of supermassive black holes…
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Gravity measurements confirm subsurface ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
In 2005, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sent pictures back to Earth depicting an icy Saturnian moon spewing water vapor and ice…
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‘Geologic clock’ helps determine moon’s age
An international team of planetary scientists determined that the Moon formed nearly 100 million years after the start of the…
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Saturn and Jupiter: X-ray laser spies deep into giant gas planets
Using DESY’s X-ray laser FLASH, researchers took a sneak peek deep into the lower atmospheric layers of giant gas planets…
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VLT spots largest yellow hypergiant star: Mix of new and old observations reveals exotic binary system
ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer has revealed the largest yellow star — and one of the ten largest stars found…
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