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Celestial Hourglass: Gemini South Telescope Captures Exquisite Planetary Nebula

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oir2006a – Gemini South Captures Planetary Nebula CVMP 1

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Gravitational Waves After Galaxy Collisions

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A new study explores whether the collision of very small galaxies could lead to the merging black holes detected in gravitational waves.

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Planet Mars: first results of the InSight mission published in Nature Geoscience

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InSight’s landing site (red dot) and the ellipse circumscribing its landing zone (in blue).

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Hubble Fingerprints a Galaxy

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Hubble Fingerprints a Galaxy

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Planet Finder Validates Its First Habitable-Zone Exoplanet, a Mini Neptune

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HET Dome at Dusk.

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Mars 2020: The search for ancient life is on

Researchers in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences will help direct Mars 2020 rover sample acquisition.

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This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying rocks with its robotic arm.

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XMM-Newton reveals giant flare from a tiny star

A star of about eight percent the Sun’s mass has been caught emitting an enormous ‘super flare’ of X-rays – a dramatic high-energy eruption that poses a fundamental problem for astronomers, who did not think it possible on stars that small.

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Solar eruption larger than Earth.

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How Newborn Stars Prepare for the Birth of Planets

An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion Clouds. These images reveal new details about the birthplaces of planets and the earliest stages of star formation.

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ALMA and the VLA observed more than 300 protostars and their young protoplanetary disks in Orion. This image shows a subset of stars, including a few binaries. The ALMA and VLA data compliment each other: ALMA sees the outer disk structure (visualized in blue), and the VLA observes the inner disks and star cores (orange).

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Planet with 18-Hour Year Is on the Edge of Destruction

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Planet with 18-Hour Year Is on the Edge of Destruction

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ALPHA collaboration at CERN reports first measurements of certain quantum effects in antimatter

The measurements are consistent with predictions for “normal” matter and pave the way for future precision studies

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ALPHA collaboration at CERN reports first measurements of certain quantum effects in antimatter