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Contradicting an earlier consensus, a team of astronomers predict that the Sun will be *very* active over the next few years, and maybe even have one of its strongest magentic
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This photo of a sunspot is INCREDIBLE. Wait, no. It's completely credible. What it is is *amazing*. So much detail!And oh, BTW, you could drop the entire Earth into it
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An ancient star city orbiting the Andromeda galaxy is a little *too* ancient. In fact, it's not clear how it can even exist at all!https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/an-ancient-star-city-circles-our-galactic-twin-in-fact-its-too-ancient 2/ I
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Look, aliens from Carina, we don't know you AREN'T going to invade, or that you even exist, and we can't be too careful, OK?https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/eat-lasers-carina-nebula 2/ Yes, those are in fact
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Some sad astronomy news: The wonderful and enormous 305-meter Arecibo radio telescope has sustained so much damage from broken cables that it has to be decomissioned.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-giant-arecibo-radio-telescope-to-be-deco
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This cosmic object is eerie and beautiful and cool and, to be brutally honest, I NEVER would've been able to figure out what created it.Turns out, it's stellar cannibalism. A
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A flash of light from 5.5 *billion* light years away reveals a colossal explosion that may have given birth to the most terrifying beast in the sky: a magnetar.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/did-astronomers-just-witness-the-explosive-birth-o
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You know how sometimes you listen to the radio really loud in the car and then turn the car off forgetting to turn the volume down so when you turn
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For years, astronomers have seen immensely powerful and mysterious blasts of radio energy pouring in from across the Universe. Now, finally, they've IDed a source. Difficulty: The call is from
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If you need to be transported to small world far, far away, then my oh my you MUST watch these videos of a spaceship hoovering up pieces of an asteroid
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Did you feel the breeze? A few days ago, the small asteroid 2020 QG passed just 2,950 km above the Earth, the closest near-miss ever recorded!https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-small-asteroid-called-2020-qc-just-gave-earth-the-closest-near-mis
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Oh, Betelgeuse, everyone’s favorite M2Iab supergiant star. Why did it dim so catastrophically earlier this year?Hubble may have clinched the answer: It erupted, blowing out a HUGE dust cloud that
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