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One shell of a mystery
Is it a shell, a cloud, a dust ring? Something is causing sudden and repeating changes in brightness around these stars!
The bigger they are, the smaller their moons?
Can bigger planets form bigger moons when whacked with bigger rocks? Maybe not!
Choose your own adventure: 3 ways to kill a massive disk galaxy
What kills the most massive disk galaxies in the Universe? Their own bulge, a sneaky bar, or a giant black hole? Let’s find out!
Peek-a-boo! Forming Moons Revealed Around a Baby Planet
How do moons form in the universe? Astronomers recently gathered direct evidence for the formation of moons around exoplanets!
I’m Not Late, You’re Just Early: measuring the Hubble constant using time-delay cosmography
How can we use gravitational lensing to measure the expansion rate of the Universe?
Don’t (Forget To) Look Up
What if a planet-killer type asteroid would impact Earth in six months time? How could we go about preventing such an existential threat?
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