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No human being will ever encounter a black hole. But we can't stop wondering what it would be like to…
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In 2009, NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO.) Its ongoing mission is to map the lunar surface in detail,…
The poetic-minded among us like to point out how Nature is a dance. If they're right, then galaxies sometimes form…
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In 2010, an exceptionally luminous supernova exploded in a small galaxy about 150 million light-years away called UGC 5189A. The…