In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out…
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Only nearby objects appear to the naked eye. With telescopes of all types, especially in…
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There’s a lot of room in interplanetary, interstellar, and intergalactic space, but just how low…
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In 2006, the IAU defined “planet” for the first time, excluding Pluto and all other…
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It takes incredible energies to accelerate masses near the speed of light. So how do…
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The first colliding galaxy cluster to reveal dark matter, empirically, turns 20 this year. Here’s…
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Many facts are well-known to professionals, but are unappreciated or even rejected outright by the…
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For decades, theorists have been cooking up “theories of everything” to explain our Universe. Are…
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Although a star’s “birth” is well-defined, it doesn’t correspond to an ignition event in its…
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Every time a new star forms, there’s an opportunity to form planets alongside and around…