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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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What happened when the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter
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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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Jodrell Bank Observatory honoured with UNESCO World Heritage status
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Exomoons that run away from their planets could become ‘ploonets’
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Mystery radio waves from space tracked to a surprising home galaxy
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Claudius Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy was a 2nd century Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer famous for his controversial geocentric theory of the universe, which would form the basis of our understanding of the motions of stars and planets for over than a thousand years.
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We may be witnessing the birth of an exomoon around a distant world
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A weird star just rapidly dimmed for a few days and we don’t know why
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Tana Joseph: The Hubble Space Telescope hooked me on science
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