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Webb spots its first alien world, a Saturn-sized planet shaping a nearby star system
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Proposed NOAA Budget Kills Program That Was Designed to Prevent Satellite Collisions
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100 ghost galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way—and we're just now uncovering them
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Calcium in a supernova remnant as a fingerprint of a sub-Chandrasekhar-mass explosion
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Astronomers find a star that exploded twice
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Astronomers Detect a Black Hole Merger That’s So Massive It Shouldn’t Exist
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Long-dead satellite emits strong radio signal, puzzling astronomers
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A strange bright burst in space baffled astronomers for more than a year. Now, they’ve solved the mystery
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Astronomers Scramble After Mysterious Flash on Saturn Suggests Historic Impact
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NASA's been pulling out of major astronomy meetings — and scientists are feeling the effects
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“These Colossal Structures Defy Imagination”: Astronomers Confirm Quipu's Staggering 1.3-Billion-Light-Year Width, Making It the Largest Known Entity in the Universe
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At 1.3 Billion Light-Years Wide, Quipu Is Officially The Biggest Thing in Our Universe
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Rubin Observatory’s First Images Are Stunning
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