Mar 28 2013
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French astronomers think they found Tatooine in real life and we didn't even have to travel to a galaxy far, far…
Mar 10 2013
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We know that the Milky Way is surrounded by an array of satellite galaxies, the largest of which is the rather aptly…
Jan 6 2013
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There's an old fringe theory that the Sun isn't our system's only star, that a red dwarf star named Nemesis is…
Jan 11 2012
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Back in September, NASA's planet-hunting satellite Kepler made one of its most dramatic discoveries when it…
Jan 2 2012
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This is AB7, a binary star system found in one of the nearby Magellanic Cloud galaxies. The two stars are constantly…
Oct 24 2011
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Stars known as blue stragglers have pretty much discovered the cosmic equivalent of the fountain of youth - they…
Sep 15 2011
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have confirmed what it seemed inevitable: a planet orbiting a binary star. It's no Tatooine but a Saturn-sized gas…
Jul 3 2011
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Located just 4.3 light-years away, the Alpha Centauri star system is our closest neighbor. But theirs is a very…
Oct 5 2010
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Astronomers believed that binary star systems were too volatile to support many planets, because the overlapping…