Physics
Twinkling Sirius spins its spectrum into a rainbow
The brightest star in the sky creates a rainbow smear as its light is refracted through our atmosphere in this long-exposure portrait
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Mountain top exploded to make way for ghost telescope
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Monster move completes Earth’s biggest radio telescope
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Pluto-bound craft seeks Manhattan-sized lump of ice
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Spectacular galactic collision spawns cosmic tadpole
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Extreme checklist to look for odd life on other worlds
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Extreme checklist to look for odd life on other worlds
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NASA ‘dream fund’ selects submarine for Saturn moon
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Eye of Sauron star spotted by planet-hunting camera
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Cosmic dust bunnies cast the darkest known shadows
The epic dust bunnies lurking within our galaxy are so dark and dense that they cast the darkest shadows ever observed 鈥� and spawn giant white-blue stars
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Sun ‘smoke rings’ give clue to solar wind mystery
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Supernova found aligned with galactic magnifying glass
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Asteroid strike map built from nuclear watchdog data
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The LADEE killers: NASA has crashed probe into moon
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