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NASA Finds 10 More Planets Humanity Might Be Able To Ruin Next
Humanity hasn’t done a ton of good in our short stint on Earth, though we’ve definitely succeeded at turning this planet into a trash pit of despair. Today, researchers from NASA’s Kepler space telescope team announced we might get to bring our garbage party to another planet — perhaps a bunch of them.
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Astronomers Recorded This Eerie Music From A 13-Billion-Year-Old Star
Space is not the soundless vacuum movies would have us believe. In fact, judging by these eerie recordings of the music being thrown off by the oldest stars in the Milky Way, space actually sounds like a bit of a party.
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NASA Just Recovered Its Drifting Kepler Spacecraft
After an inexplicable shift into Emergency Mode, NASA managed to partially recover its planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft. But we still don’t know what caused it to wig out in the first place.
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How Astronomers Will Solve The ‘Alien Megastructure’ Mystery
KIC 8462852 has quickly become one of the biggest astronomical mysteries of the decade. It will be months before we have any firm answers on this fitfully flickering star, but astronomers intend to get to the bottom of it. How?