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Dust is annoying, but it is also key to life and death in the cosmos

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Dust is annoying, but it is also key to life and death in the cosmos

Dust gives us trouble, whether at home or in space, but it plays a key role in star formation and destruction, and in allowing us to understand huge objects like galaxies says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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How to find the North Star and Southern Cross

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How to find the North Star and Southern Cross

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A stargazer's guide to the equinox and how Earth moves around the sun

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A stargazer's guide to the equinox and how Earth moves around the sun

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Volcano on the surface of Io

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The most powerful volcano on Jupiter's moon Io is about to explode

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How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets

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How the coolest, smallest stars could help us discover new exoplanets

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We just found dozens of missing galaxies from the early universe

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We just found dozens of missing galaxies from the early universe

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Earth from space

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We could use Earth's atmosphere as a giant lens for a space telescope

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Before building another telescope, learn from Hawaiian culture

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Before building another telescope, learn from Hawaiian culture

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What happened when the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter

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Two stars orbiting each other

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Two incredibly fast-orbiting stars seem to be the wrong temperature

A pair of distant stars orbit one another in a fast-paced system that would fit inside Saturn, and neither star seems to be the temperature that we’d expect

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Strange stars that go supernova may be dimming because of dark matter

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Hawaii declares state of emergency amid protests over huge telescope

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There aren’t enough space explosions to explain strange radio bursts

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Moon rocks can tell us where life could thrive beyond the solar system

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