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The quasar J043947.08+163415.7 (red) is extremely far away, and its light has been amplified by an intervening galaxy (blue) much closer to Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, and X. Fan (University of Arizona)
A quasar at the edge of the observable Universe shines with the light of 10 *trillion* Suns
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How to watch this weekend’s total lunar eclipse — the last one for two years!
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Science Behind the Fiction: People who think they're actually superheroes
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Hubble/STIS images of AU Mic taken a few years apart show the motion of a blob moving outward from the star. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Wisniewski (University of Oklahoma), C. Grady (Eureka Scientific), and G. Schneider (Steward Observatory)
Rocky worlds around red dwarfs may get blasted clean of water
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The location of AT2018cow in the galaxy CGCG 137-068. Credit: Color image from the Imagine Viewer, created by Dustin Lang, for the Legacy Surveys project
Huge asymmetric exploding space cow!
Phil Plait
The Chang’e 4 rover as seen from the lander (left) and vice-versa (right). Credit: CNSA/CLEP/Emily Lakdawalla/The Planetary Society
Amazing video: Chinese lander and rover descend to the Moon’s far side!
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Elon Musk’s Starship proto is finished, and it’s the most kickass rocket we’ve ever seen
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Amazing video: Chinese lander and rover descend to the Moon’s far side!
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The Chang’e 4 rover as seen from the lander (left) and vice-versa (right). Credit: CNSA/CLEP/Emily Lakdawalla/The Planetary Society
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Mythbusters Jr.'s Tamara Robertson on getting girls into STEM careers
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Today's forecast: A rain of spiders (but don't worry; it's normal)
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The sun is destined to turn into a gargantuan crystal ball after it dies
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ESA image of a crystallized white dwarf
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Pale, dusty dots
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A map of the sky using the far-infrared observatory Herschel; every dot you see in this image is a distant galaxy. Credit: ESA/Herschel/SPIRE; M. W. L. Smith et al 2017
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Could spacecraft actually use black holes as portals through hyperspace?
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The feathery, dusty, and spectacular tail of Comet McNaught
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Comet McNaught seen from the Paranal observatory in Chile in 2007. Credit: ESO/Sebastian Deiries
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Humans have just created plasma 50 times colder than deep space
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Rice University plasma experiment
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Science Behind the Fiction: Where are all the clones?
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Keanu Reeves in Replicas
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Astronomers pew-pew their way to super-sharp images
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Four lasers beam into the sky to help sharpen images taken using the Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO/F. Kamphues
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Keanu Reeves moves his wife and daughter's minds to new bodies in Replicas. Is it actually possible?
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Overlapping galaxies
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Two overlapping galaxies, some 800 million light years away, were captured by Hubble accidentally while viewing a much closer galaxy (NGC 253, off screen to the right).
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Why do some impact craters have rays?
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A mosaic of Mercury taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft in 2008, showing impact craters with tremendously long ray systems. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Al Reinert, screenwriter of Apollo 13, maker of For All Mankind, dead at 71
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