Outer Space
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Hubble revisits tangled NGC 6240
Not all galaxies are neatly shaped, as this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 6240 clearly demonstrates. Hubble…
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Maybe dark matter is not made up of heavy particles after all
Tom Broadhurst, the Ikerbasque researcher in the Department of Theoretical Physics of the UPV/EHU, together with Sandor Molnar of the…
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Superflare stars with large starspots observed
A team of astronomers has used the High Dispersion Spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope to conduct spectroscopic observations of Sun-like…
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Mercury’s magnetic field is almost four billion years old
New data from MESSENGER, the spacecraft that orbited Mercury for four years before crashing into the planet a week ago,…
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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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