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It Could Rain Iron On This Hellish Exoplanet
Don’t forget to bring your sturdiest umbrella when you travel to the extra-hot planet WASP-76b, where it may literally rain molten iron.
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Scientists Spot Tantalising New Super-Earth Around Nearby Star
Scientists have spotted strong evidence of a super-Earth orbiting the second-closest star system to the Sun, according to new research.
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Behold The Haunting Beauty Of A Distant Star Cluster
A new image of star cluster RCW 38, an area strewn with young, hot, massive stars, is providing an unprecedented glimpse into a tumultuous region of space located 5500 light-years from Earth.
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Scientists Observe Red Giant Waking Up Neutron Star In A Flash
Neutron stars aren’t the twinkle-twinkle kind you typically see in the night sky. They’re stellar corpses, and incredibly dense sources of gravity, with perhaps 1.5 times the mass of the Sun packed into an area only a couple of dozen kilometres across. Around 9000 light years away from Earth, one neutron stars seems to have…