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The title frame of “Charlotte’s Daydream”, a lovely animation about an astronomer visiting a black hole. Credit: Marlies van der Wel
Charlotte's Daydream
Phil Plait
A huge solar flare erupted on the Sun in October 2003, seen here in X-rays. It was also accompanied by a powerful coronal mass ejection. Solar storms like these are a danger to our power grid and orbiting satellites. Credit: NASA/SOHO
How often do severe solar storms pummel the Earth?
Phil Plait
Star Trek: The Original Series
The terrible truth about Star Trek's transporters
Cassidy Ward
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Artwork depicting a planet and star interacting magnetically, creating an aurora on the star. Credit: Danielle Futselaar (artsource.nl)
An Earth-sized planet may be igniting an aurora around a nearby red dwarf star
Phil Plait
A color image of Arrokoth shows it is very red and smooth. The biggest crater, Maryland, can be seen on the small lobe. Credit: ASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
How to build a Kuiper Belt Object: Arrokoth's two halves formed separately and slowly came together
Phil Plait
A rotating neutron star with a powerful magnetic field whips up subatomic particles around it. Artwork credit: NASA / Swift / Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University
A Fast Radio Burster is seen to repeat every 16 days... deepening the mystery
Phil Plait
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Was defective DNA what really killed the mammoths?
Elizabeth Rayne
Ice Age 2
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Check out the humongous horned shell on this rare prehistoric turtle
Jeff Spry
Turtle Hero
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Fascinating new NASA mission concepts will make you want them all to launch
Elizabeth Rayne
NASA image of Jupiter and Io
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A Fast Radio Burster is seen to repeat every 16 days... deepening the mystery
Phil Plait
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A rotating neutron star with a powerful magnetic field whips up subatomic particles around it. Artwork credit: NASA / Swift / Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University
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Could drones launch satellites into space by cracking one giant whip?
Benjamin Bullard
View of Earth from Space
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Boston Dynamics' robotic dog gets a job working an offshore oil rig
Jeff Spry
Spot 3
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What even is this freaky virus with DNA no one ever heard of?
Elizabeth Rayne
George Romero's The Crazies
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Medieval gamer's prized 'king' piece found in ancient English monastery
Jeff Spry
King Piece
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Scientists create new method of extracting electricity from rain droplets
Jeff Spry
Rain 2
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Contact! There is now such a thing as a UFO database with over 2 million pages of X-files
Elizabeth Rayne
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
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Betelgeuse's shenanigans just got weirder: Only *part* of it is dimming
Phil Plait
A new extremely high-resolution image of the star Betelgeuse shows its actual disk in December 2019. It appears to be dimmer in its lower half, which is likely tied to its recent dimming to less than 40% of its normal brightness. Credit: ESO/M. Montargès
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Take cover! Jellyfish hurling venom-filled mucus ‘grenades’ can sting without touching
Adam Pockross
Upside-Down Jellyfish
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Got the right stuff? NASA seeking new astronaut applicants in March
Jeff Spry
NASA 2
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Exoplanet smashup: The very weird dust disk around BD +20 307
Phil Plait
Artwork depicting the recent collision between two planets in the BD +20 307 binary star system, which created a thick disk of dust around the stars. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
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Bonecrushing prehistoric crocodile discovered in southern Brazil, dubbed 'T. Rex of its time'
Jeff Spry
Croc 2
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