Outer Space
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One planet, two stars: New research shows how circumbinary planets form
Luke Skywalker’s home planet Tatooine would have formed far from its current location in the Star Wars universe, a new…
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Herschel Telescope Detects Water On Dwarf Planet in Asteroid Belt
Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest…
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Milky Way May Have Formed ‘Inside-Out:’ Gaia Provides New Insight Into Galactic Evolution
A breakthrough using data from the Gaia-ESO project has provided evidence backing up theoretically predicted divisions in the chemical composition…
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First Black Hole Orbiting a ‘Spinning’ Star
Spanish scientists have discovered the first binary system ever known to consist of a black hole and a ‘spinning’ star…
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Surprising New Class of ‘Hypervelocity Stars’ Discovered Escaping the Galaxy
An international team of astronomers has discovered a surprising new class of “hypervelocity stars” — solitary stars moving fast enough…
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