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Topic: Astrophysics (page 2)

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Mars: NASA finds building blocks of life

Keith A. Spencer
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The next big discovery in astronomy?

Eileen Meyer - The Conversation
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Study: Methane changes habitability zone

Keith A. Spencer
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)

We may be close to detecting dark matter

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

‘Oumuamua came from a binary: report

Nicole Karlis
An artist's rendering of NASA's Juno spacecraft making a pass over Jupiter. (NASA)

The powerful cyclones of Jupiter

Nicole Karlis
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Arguing over the Moon

Keith A. Spencer
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The planet where it rains sunscreen

Keith A. Spencer
(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
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Mapping dark matter

Keith A. Spencer
Artist's conception shows two merging black holes similar to those detected by LIGO. The black holes are spinning in a non-aligned fashion, which means they have different orientations relative to the overall orbital motion of the pair. LIGO found hints that at least one black hole in the system called GW170104 was non-aligned with its orbital motion before it merged with its partner. (LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet))

The day the universe shook

Keith A. Spencer
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The Wow! signal isn't aliens

Keith A. Spencer
Artist's rendition of star KELT-9 and its orbiting planet KELT-9B. (Robert Hurt/NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Bring your sunglasses

Keith A. Spencer
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Tyson slams science deniers

Sean Illing
Neil deGrasse Tyson (Richard Shotwell/invision/ap)

Nye schools Tyson on Twitter

Joanna Rothkopf
Hartley 2

Sarah Gray
(NASA)

Sarah Gray
Ann Druyan, the writer and executive producer of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey." (Reuters/Kevork Djansezian)

Meet the woman behind "Cosmos"

Andrew O'Hehir

Sarah Gray
(Albert Einstein, 1921 Ferdinand Schmutzer via Wikimedia Commons)

Sarah Gray
(Reuters/NASA)

This is the way the world ends

Stephen Battersby
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