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# space
If wormholes big enough for spaceships to traverse exist, we should be able to detect them just by looking at the sky.
# space
Could we use neutron stars as navigational landmarks when traveling through interstellar space?
# science
An awful lot is riding on JWST and there's a huge risk that if something goes wrong, deep space astronomy could be set back decades.
# space
Astronomers found a planet on death row orbiting a dying star. The kicker? That solar system was born in another galaxy.
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Want to get a good guess as to how old a star is? Just listen to its hum...
# space
We think Gliese 581g might have liquid water on its surface. How do we check if it really does?
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GJ 436b has some interesting chemistry, but it's not rewriting astronomy and chemistry books, nor is it a huge surprise to scientists.
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There's here, they're loud, and they somehow missed the last 600 years of science...
# space
While we still don't know how supermassive black holes get as heavy and large as they are, but we have a few ideas...
# space
Astronomers find a star that's larger, brighter, and heavier than what we thought could still exist.