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Discovery Of A Young Large Magellanic Cloud Star System With Planet-Forming Disk
The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system ...
A twinkling group of stars dominates the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 2002 is an open star cluster that resides roughly 160,000 light-years aw…
Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...
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An otherworldly journey to the Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctica
Forgive me for starting with superlatives, but I have no choice. I’m not the first. In 1911, Roald Amundsen, the first explorer to reach the South Pole, wrote that the Queen Maud Range in ...
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A new way to measure where the Milky Way’s dark matter is
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...
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Forecast feels like early spring
Highs near 50 degrees will run the show Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday! For the most part, today will be dry, mostly cloudy, and mild. Patchy showers are expected between 5-10 PM. Coverage will be ...
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Split weekend
We’re starting the day with cloudy skies and mild temperatures, but don’t expect it to stay that way for long. As the day goes on, a few showers will make their way through the region, though we’ll ...