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Can we smash together all of the asteroids to build a new planet?

The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planets, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society it’s time to tidy it up into a single asteroid world

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The sun with solar flares coming off it

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The sun is smaller than we thought it was

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Are you truly healthy? These new tests provide the ultimate check-up

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Are you truly healthy? These new tests provide the ultimate check-up

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Ice-spewing supervolcano may have been found on Pluto

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How much does your immune system weigh? Now we have an answer

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Image of the Moon captured by the Galileo spacecraft

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The moon is 40 million years older than we thought it was

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Slicing the moon in half would be disastrous for Earth – but beautiful

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How asteroids can help us understand our place in the cosmos

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A solar flare, a tremendous explosion on the sun that happens when energy stored in

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Largest known solar storm struck Earth 14,300 years ago

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This image of the solar corona is a color overlay of the emission from highly ionized iron lines, with white light images added below. Different colors provide unique information about the temperature and composition of solar material in the corona. Credits: S. Habbal/M. Druckm?ller/Nasa https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/fe_xi_fe_xiv_wl-hr_mitchell_achf.png

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Why the next solar eclipses are a unique chance to understand the sun

North America will see an annular solar eclipse on 14 October and a total eclipse in April 2024. Scientists are preparing to use these spectacles to study our star's mysterious corona

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How we get high: Unlocking the secrets of the endocannabinoid system

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OSIRIS-REx is about to fling samples of the asteroid Bennu at Earth

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Europa’s underground ocean seems to have the carbon necessary for life

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Eris and Makemake might be hiding unexpected oceans of liquid water

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