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Is the Universe Connected By a Cosmic Web?
Some people think that the universe is just a hodge-podge of various celestial objects, such as planets, stars and galaxies. But over the years, scientists have found more evidence that the universe...
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New Horizons Journey; Wrong Way Asteroid; Ring Around Mars?
The New Horizons spacecraft took a series of exposures of the background star field near the location of its target Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69. (yellow diamond). (NASA/Johns Hopkins University...
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Solar System Mimics Ours; The Big Empty; Closest Human Relative?
An artist’s illustration of the epsilon Eridani system showing Epsilon Eridani b, right foreground, a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting its parent star at the outside edge of an asteroid belt. In the...
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Did our Sun Snatch Planet 9 from Another Solar System?
Planet 9 captured by Sun from another star system (Lund University) Is it possible that the new-found theoretical Planet 9 is actually an exoplanet, a planet from another solar system? According to...
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One Third of the World’s Population Unable to See Milky Way
The Milky Way illuminates night sky over Crater Lake, Oregon. (NPS/Jeremy M. White) Among my fondest memories of being a kid back in the 1960’s was taking a week or so of summer vacation to visit...
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Where are Ceres Large Craters?
Scientists with NASA’s Dawn mission were surprised to find that Ceres has no clear signs of truly giant impact basins. This image shows both visible (left) and topographic (right) mapping data from...
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NASA Will Have Cassini Working Hard Right Up to Fiery Finish
This image shows Saturn’s northern hemisphere in 2016. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) As the saying goes all good things must come to an end and the same will go for the Cassini mission to...
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Cosmic Cannon; Mars Dust Storm Forecast; Dione’s Subsurface Ocean
This four-panel graphic illustrates how the binary-star system V Hydrae is launching balls of plasma into space. (NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)) Astronomers Find a Cosmic Cannon Astronomers have...
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Is Planet 9 Causing Our Solar System to Wobble?
This artistic rendering shows the distant view from Planet Nine back towards the sun. The planet is thought to be gaseous, similar to Uranus and Neptune. Hypothetical lightning lights up the night...
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Ants Goof Off Too; Milky Way Steals Stars; Astronomers Spot Exocomets
Ants work outside of their colony (Schristia, Creative Commons via Flickr) Ants Balance Work and Rest to Maintain Colony Ants have a reputation of being dedicated and hardworking creatures. But did you...
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Is the Universe Connected By a Cosmic Web?
Some people think that the universe is just a hodge-podge of various celestial objects, such as planets, stars and galaxies. But over the years, scientists have found more evidence that the universe...
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New Horizons Journey; Wrong Way Asteroid; Ring Around Mars?
The New Horizons spacecraft took a series of exposures of the background star field near the location of its target Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69. (yellow diamond). (NASA/Johns Hopkins University...
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Solar System Mimics Ours; The Big Empty; Closest Human Relative?
An artist’s illustration of the epsilon Eridani system showing Epsilon Eridani b, right foreground, a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting its parent star at the outside edge of an asteroid belt. In the...
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Did our Sun Snatch Planet 9 from Another Solar System?
Planet 9 captured by Sun from another star system (Lund University) Is it possible that the new-found theoretical Planet 9 is actually an exoplanet, a planet from another solar system? According to...
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One Third of the World’s Population Unable to See Milky Way
The Milky Way illuminates night sky over Crater Lake, Oregon. (NPS/Jeremy M. White) Among my fondest memories of being a kid back in the 1960’s was taking a week or so of summer vacation to visit...
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Where are Ceres Large Craters?
Scientists with NASA’s Dawn mission were surprised to find that Ceres has no clear signs of truly giant impact basins. This image shows both visible (left) and topographic (right) mapping data from...
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NASA Will Have Cassini Working Hard Right Up to Fiery Finish
This image shows Saturn’s northern hemisphere in 2016. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) As the saying goes all good things must come to an end and the same will go for the Cassini mission to...
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Cosmic Cannon; Mars Dust Storm Forecast; Dione’s Subsurface Ocean
This four-panel graphic illustrates how the binary-star system V Hydrae is launching balls of plasma into space. (NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)) Astronomers Find a Cosmic Cannon Astronomers have...
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Is Planet 9 Causing Our Solar System to Wobble?
This artistic rendering shows the distant view from Planet Nine back towards the sun. The planet is thought to be gaseous, similar to Uranus and Neptune. Hypothetical lightning lights up the night...
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Ants Goof Off Too; Milky Way Steals Stars; Astronomers Spot Exocomets
Ants work outside of their colony (Schristia, Creative Commons via Flickr) Ants Balance Work and Rest to Maintain Colony Ants have a reputation of being dedicated and hardworking creatures. But did you...
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