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Astronomers Spot Galactic Wind From Early Universe
The ejection of molecular gas from a galaxy 12 billion light-years away may have kept an early galaxy from burning out too quickly
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Jupiter’s Magnetic Field Is Super Weird and Has Two South Poles
Analysis of data from the Juno probe shows the giant planet’s field is much different from our own and suggests it has a dissolved core
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Japan Takes Tiny First Step Toward Space Elevator
Two mini-satellites will test elevator motion in space as part of research for an elevator between Earth and low orbit
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Monster Galaxy Churns Out 1,000 Times As Many Stars As Our Own
COSMOS-AzTEC-1 is almost 13 billion years old highly organized but unstable and could shed light on galaxy evolution
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The Andromeda Galaxy Ate The Milky Way’s Lost Sibling
New simulations show Andromeda absorbed the large galaxy M32p about 2 billion years ago
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Jupiter Officially Has 12 New Moons
The new satellites are mostly tiny and include one oddball that is on a collision course with some of the 78 other moons orbiting the planet
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Our Galaxy Is Really Greasy and Smells Like Moth Balls
A new study estimates that a quarter to half the carbon in interstellar space is in the form of greasy aliphatic carbon
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Andean Solstice Celebrations Capture the Wondrous Churn of Spacetime
Exploring the similarities and differences between Indigenous and Western cosmologies
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How Jupiter May Have Gifted Early Earth With Water
A new model of the solar system suggest we have gas giants to thank for our watery world
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A Message From Stephen Hawking Is On Its Way to a Black Hole
After his ashes were interred at Westminster Abbey, a musical composition and “message of hope” were broadcast toward 1A 0620-00, the nearest black hole
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Astronomers Find Signature From the Universe’s Earliest Known Stars
The first lights may have winked to life just 250 million years after the Big Bang
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The Case for Charles Dickens, the Science Communicator
A new exhibition dives into the Victorian novelist’s passion for science
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Venus and Jupiter May Meddle With Earth’s Orbit and Climate
In 405,000-year cycles, the tug of nearby planets causes hotter summers, colder winters and drier droughts on our home planet
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New Star Map Could Change Everything We Know About the Milky Way
The map includes 1.7 billion stars and is already revealing new details about star evolution and the formation of our galaxy
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If a Cosmic Bubble Destroys the Universe, Scientists Now Know When It’ll Happen
Don’t panic yet; the end won’t be for at least 10 octodecillion years, if it happens at all
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The Center of the Milky Way May Be Chock-Full of Black Holes
Researchers spotted about a dozen black holes lurking at our galactic center—and there may be up to 10,000 more
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The Real Science Behind Your Favorite Nerd Culture at Awesome Con
Astrophysicists, vehicle technicians and biologists joined the party to bring cutting-edge research to fictional worlds
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Meet Icarus, The Most Distant Star Yet Detected
The blue supergiant lies 9 billion light-years away
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China’s Tiangong-1 Finally Crashes Back to Earth
Most of the craft likely burned up as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere
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Scientists Thought All Galaxies Had Dark Matter, but They Just Found One Without It
The find defies the assumption that the mysterious matter is necessary for galaxy formation
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