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Topic: Astronomy (page 15)

A still from NOVA's "Black Hole Apocalypse" (PBS)

NOVA's "Black Hole Apocalypse"

Matthew Rozsa
Artist’s impression of `Oumuamua (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Nothing yet in the search for alien life

Ray Norris - The Conversation

Asteroid just misses Earth

Keith A. Spencer
Artist’s impression of `Oumuamua (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Is Oumuamua of alien origin?

Nicole Karlis
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Donald Trump shakes former NASA Astronaut and second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin's hand after signing an executive order to send American astronauts back to the moon, and eventually Mars. (Getty/Brendan Smialowsk)

Trump to cut climate change missions

Nicole Karlis
Sensors on the Large Underground Xenon dark matter detector can register the emission of just a single photon from a dark matter interaction within the detector's giant xenon tank. So far, however, no signs of dark matter have been seen. (Matt Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility)

Dark matter: the mystery substance

Dan Hooper - The Conversation
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15 out of this world space podcasts

Ma'ayan Plaut
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The planet where it rains sunscreen

Keith A. Spencer
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(X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Toronto/M.Durant et al; Optical: DSS/Davide De Martin)

What we learn from kilonova explosions

Roy Kilgard - The Conversation
This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion with a rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in its center. In October 2017, astronomers detected the merger of two neutron stars some 130 million light-years away. (Getty/NASA)

How neutron stars make gold

Keith A. Spencer
Artist concept of Haumea with the newly-discovered ring. (IAA-CSIC/UHU)

Haumea, the dwarf planet with... rings?

Keith A. Spencer
Ranier Weiss, Kip Thorne (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Nobel in physics for gravitational waves

Ed Daw - The Conversation
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Fake planet blamed for coming rapture

Matthew Sheffield
Diamond Planet (NASA)

Diamonds in the sky

Keith A. Spencer
(AP Photo/Irmansyah)

share eclipse with kids

Viviana Reveron - Common Sense Media
The total eclipse of the sun on 11th August 1999, viewed from Hungary. (Getty/Gannet77)

Why I chase eclipses

Clint Werner
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Clouds on Mars

Javier Barbuzano - Sky & Telescope

Sky Gazing

Alexandra Clinton
(AP Photo/Irmansyah)

The life-changing eclipse

Bob King - Sky & Telescope
(AP Photo/Irmansyah)

Eclipse of reason

Bryan Gaensler - The Conversation
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Mapping dark matter

Keith A. Spencer
FILE-This Aug. 31, 2015, file photo shows the Gemini Telescope, right, and Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea near Hilo, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)

Are we alone?

Andrew Norton - The Conversation
(AP Photo/NASA Ames, SETI Institute, JPL-Caltech, T. Pyle) (AP)

Planet Nine or Planet Nought?

Matthew Rozsa
(KFC)

KFC and space privatization

Keith A. Spencer
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