astronomy
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Mars Is Hiding Its ‘Lost’ Water Beneath the Surface, New Research Suggests
A view of Mars made up of around one hundred Viking Orbiter images.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS Water that used to exist on…
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Astronomers Spotted a Black Hole Casually Gliding Through Space
The host galaxy of a mobile supermassive black hole.Image: Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Some 230 million light-years from Earth,…
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Having Lost Its Original Atmosphere, This Freaky Planet Is Now Growing a New One
Artist’s depiction of exoplanet GJ 1132 b,Image: NASA/ESA/R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech) Who says you can’t lose your atmosphere to a nearby…
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Cleanup Costs at the Damaged Arecibo Observatory Could Reach $50 Million
Damage at the dish following the collapse of the 900-ton instrument platform.Image: Ricardo Arduengo/AFP (Getty Images) A new estimate suggests…
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Hubble Captures Stunning View of Spiral Galaxy NGC 2336
Spiral galaxy NGC 2336.Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, V. Antoniou; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt NGC 2336 was discovered over a century ago,…
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Abigail Allwood’s Hunt for Alien Fossils on Mars Has Begun
When the NASA Mars rover Perseverance was dramatically airlifted through the Red Planet’s atmosphere and touched down on the iron-rich…
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Computer Simulations Suggest Mars Moons Result of Ancient Collision
Artist’s depiction of the hypothesized ancient collision. Image: Mark Garlick The Red Planet’s two tiny moons—Phobos and Deimos—could have formed…
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Move Over ‘Farout,’ Astronomers Confirm ‘Farfarout’ Is the Solar System’s Most Distant Known Object
A view of the night sky from the Uruguayan countryside on May 10, 2019.Photo: Mariana Suarez (Getty Images) What astronomers…
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Astronomers Looking for One Black Hole May Have Found an Entire Squad
About 7,800 light-years away—within our galactic neighborhood—is globular cluster NGC 6397, basically a wad of stars held together by gravity.…
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Astronomers Found a ‘Benjamin Button’ Galaxy
The ALMA telescope sits high in Chile’s Atacama Desert.Photo: MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images (Getty Images) At 1.2 billion years…
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