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Citizen Scientists Spot Closest Young Brown Dwarf Disk Yet

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Researchers at MIT, the University of Oklahoma, and elsewhere, with the help of citizen scientists,...

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Scientists Shed Light on Growth of Black Holes

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Scientists Shed Light on Growth of Black Holes

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Ice Melt Linked to Accelerated Regional Freshwater Depletion

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A small glacier in the Arctic region of Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, as photographed by NASA's Airborne...

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Detecting methane emissions during COVID-19

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Methane concentrations over the Permian...

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MAXI J1820+070: Black Hole Outburst Caught on Video

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NASA Supercomputers Power COVID-19 Research

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Pleiades' rack-based architecture allows NASA to continually increase the system's...

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New Sunspots Potentially Herald Increased Solar Activity

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On the upper left side of this image from May 29, 2020, from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory — shown here...

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Hubble Finds that "Distance" From the Brightest Stars is Key to Preserving Primordial Discs

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The star cluster Westerlund 2
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