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New Storm as Big as Earth Is Stirring Up Neptune’s Atmosphere
Astronomers aren’t sure if the 5,600-mile-wide storm will peter out or if a deep vortex will keep it churning
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Half of Our Atoms May Come From Other Galaxies
According to computer simulations, large galaxies may grow by sucking in matter smaller star clusters expel
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Astronaut Captures ‘Awesome Sauce’ of Aurora From Space
Humans have been amazed for millennia by these atmospheric events
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When Girls Studied Planets and the Skies Had No Limits
Maria Mitchell, America’s first female astronomer, flourished at a time when both sexes “swept the sky”
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Could You Crash Into a Black Hole?
Probably not, but it’s fun to think about
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Astronomers Find the Smallest Star Yet
The faint orb is just a smidgen bigger than Saturn and around 2,000 to 3,000 times dimmer than our own sun
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How Eclipse Anxiety Helped Lay the Foundation For Modern Astronomy
The same unease you feel when the moon blots out the sun fueled ancient astronomers to seek patterns in the skies
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Is Jupiter the “Star” in Lord Byron’s Famous Poem?
According to astronomer Donald Olson, the brilliant star described in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is actually a planet
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Detailed Images of a Distant Star Hold Clues to Its Ultimate Fate
Sitting some 640 light years from our planet, the star Betelgeuse is on the verge of supernova
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Chase August’s Solar Eclipse Aboard This Special Flight
Alaska Airlines will give away one coveted seat on the chartered flight
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Celebrate the Eclipse With a Color-Shifting Stamp
Your next letter just got more celestial
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Will You See August’s Great Eclipse? This New Tool Helps You Find Out
Just plug in a zip code and the solar simulator will show when the big event will pass overhead
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We May Live in a Massive Cosmic Void
If the universe were a block of Swiss cheese, the Milky Way would sit within one of the cheesy holes
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NASA Hopes to “Touch the Sun” With a Newly Named Probe
The craft will travel within 4 million miles of the sun’s surface
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Watch a Partial Solar Eclipse From Space
It’s a preview of even more spectacular things to come
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New Views of Jupiter Offer Up Marvel and Mystery
From stunning polar images to weird aurorae, the gas giant is even weirder than we thought
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The “Alien Megastructure” Star Is Acting Up Again
A large dip in the star’s brightness suggests something massive is orbiting the fiery body
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Piece of the Meteorite That Struck a Woman Sells for More Than Its Weight in Gold
About the size of a dime, the fraction of the space rock fetched $7,500 at auction
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How a German Mathematician Took Responsibility for an Ancient Peruvian Artifact
Maria Reiche lived in a shack in the desert with the Nazca Lines for 40 years
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