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The Gaia Mission Keeps Unlocking Secrets of the Galaxy
There are probably 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, stretched across space in a disk shaped like a ninja’s…
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The Gaia Mission Keeps Unlocking Secrets of the Galaxy
There are probably 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, stretched across space in a disk shaped like a ninja’s…
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The universe is surprisingly lopsided and we don’t know why
Two analyses of a million galaxies show that their distribution may not be symmetrical, which may mean that our understandings…
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Cosmic dawn ended 200 million years later than cosmologists thought
Using the light from 67 extremely distant quasars, astronomers have calculated that cosmic dawn, the period in which the first…
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Researchers Made Ultracold Quantum Bubbles on the Space Station
In March 2018, researchers launched what looks like a white, cooler-sized fridge to the International Space Station. That heavy box…
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Gravitational waves could let us find tiny black holes devouring stars
A primordial black hole falling into a neutron star would sink to its centre and devour it in seconds, and…
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4 Years On, a New Experiment Sees No Sign of ‘Cosmic Dawn’
When hydrogen atoms first formed, they absorbed and then emitted ambient 21-centimeter radiation at equal rates, which made the clouds…
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