Astronomy
ASTROPHYSICS
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Devourers of worlds
At least a quarter of Sun-like stars may have swallowed Earth-like planets
ASTROPHYSICS
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Star fossil
New survey of celestial bodies finds rare and ancient star over 10 billion years old
Astrophysics
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The oldest spiral galaxy
Astrophysicists have identified the oldest spiral galaxy ever observed
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Astrophysics
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A planet with a renewed atmosphere
Data obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope suggest that an exoplanet (GJ 1132 b) was able to develop a new atmosphere after its original was lost
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Astronomy
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A galaxy destined to fade
Astronomers observed a galaxy ejecting immense quantities of cold gas, enough to form 10,000 new stars the size of the Sun every year
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Astronomy
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Space 1.6 million years from now
Using new data astronomers have predicted the movement of the 300,000 stars within 326 light-years of the Sun over the next 1.6 million years
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Hayabusa2
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Successful return
The Japanese space mission has successfully collected samples from the asteroid Ryugu and brought them safely back to Earth
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Astronomy
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A 10-billion-year-old fossil
In the center of the Milky Way lie the remains of another galaxy that it cannibalized some 10 billion years ago
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Geology
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Water on the near side of the moon
There is water on the Moon, and not only in the dark craters located near its poles
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Astronomy
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Heading for Mars
The United Arab Emirates launched its first interplanetary space probe from a space center in Japan
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Astronomy
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Asteroid showers on Earth and the Moon
About 800 million years ago, fragments of a large asteroid collided with Earth and the Moon
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SpaceX
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A historic flight
On May 31, American astronauts arrived at the International Space Station for a three-month mission
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Astronomy
A moon on the move
Titan, the largest of Saturn's 82 moons, is moving away from the planet almost 100 times faster than previously estimated
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Astronomy
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High-resolution moon
Researchers have produced the first detailed digital map of the Moon's entire surface
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Astrophysics
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Mars in super-high resolution
In March, NASA presented the highest resolution panoramic image ever taken of the surface of Mars
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Astronomy
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A giant, sleeping galaxy
An international group of astronomers has identified a rare galaxy, known only as XMM-2599, which formed very early in the history of the universe
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Photolab
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Needle in a haystack
In this collage ultra-diffuse galaxies are shown by the faint white patches in the center of each square
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