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THE PERSEVERANCE ROVER LANDS ON MARS TODAY!Here's what you need to know, including links to details and where to watch live.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/perseverance-lands-on-mars-today-heres-what-you-need-to-know 2/ The si
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A blip of light between two stars may finally be the planet we've been looking for all these years.Or it may just be a blip of light.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/have-astronomers-finally-found-a-planet-around-alpha-centauri-maaaaaaaaay
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Astronomers have found the coolest star system ever: A sextuple system with three nearly identical pairs of binary stars orbiting each other that we see edge-on so all six stars
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TOI-178 is a star with a weird planetary system. It has six planets, and the outer five all orbit the star in a repeating pattern like music from a music
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Do you need some hi-res Hubble love right now? How about a half dozen *spectacular* images of galaxies colliding?The answer is yes. Yes, you do.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/hubbles-half-dozen-cosmic-train-wrecks 2/ Galaxies are in a
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So a magnetar in a nearby galaxy blew off a flare with up to 100 TRILLION times the Sun's energy and my brain will just be over here in a
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Need to get off-planet for a minute? Then I may suggest Mars, but I must also caution you: It's a damned weird planet.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/mars-is-weird 2/ These features are seen near the
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How old is the Universe?13.77 ± 0.039 billion years. Well, according to new data looking at the oldest light in the cosmos.But is that right? Yeah, we've got ourselves a
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Life on Earth has nearly been wiped out again and again over time. How has this planet stayed habitable for billions of years?A new study implies that in part, we're
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In 1962, astronomers found an object so bizarre they had *no idea* what it could be. When they figured it out through a clever trick of the sky, they opened
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Seen all those pix of Jupiter from last night showing three or four of its moons? Yeah, it actually has more. A lot more. A LOT lot more.A new paper
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0/5 A thought. Bear with me, please. 1/5 When a high-mass star reaches the end of its life, the core collapses. This sets up a complicated series of conditions that
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