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Astronomers’ World-First Discovery: Twin Stars Trapped in Galactic Black Hole Orbit
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesAt the center of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly …
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Astronomers Have Pinpointed the Origin of Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesSlowly repeating bursts of intense radio waves from space have puzzled astronomers since they were discovered in 2022. …
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A 4.45 Billion-Year-Old Crystal From Mars Reveals the Planet Had Water From the Beginning
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesWater is ubiquitous on Earth — about 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered by the stuff. Water …
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Egg-Shaped Galaxies May Be Aligned to the Black Holes at Their Hearts, Astronomers Find
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesBlack holes don’t have many identifying features. They come in one color (black) and one shape (spherical). The …
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Astronomers Just Found Complex Carbon Molecules in Space — a Step Closer to Deciphering the Origins of Life
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesA team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in …
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Can Life Exist on an Icy Moon? NASA’s Europa Clipper Aims to Find Out
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesWith NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launching soon, the mission will try to answer the question of whether there …
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Scientists Have Found Carbon Dioxide on Pluto’s Largest Moon — Offering Clues About How It Formed
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesIn the outer reaches of our Solar System, 5.7 billion kilometers from the Sun, lies the dwarf planet …
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A Galactic ‘Comet’ Called Terzan 5 Just Illuminated a 100-Year-Old Puzzle About Cosmic Rays
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesWhen my colleagues and I set to work on a century-old cosmic mystery, we found an unexpected celestial …
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Discovery of Ancient Stars on the Stellar Thin Disk of the Milky Way
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesMachine learning shed new light on the formation history of our Milky Way: a surprising discovery about the …