naturalsciences
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Weird Hexagonal Diamonds Came From an Asteroid-Dwarf Planet Smashup
New research indicates that a rare form of diamond may originate in the burbling cores of distant worlds, arriving on Earth thanks to violent cosmic collisions.
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The Vespera Robotic Telescope Takes the Guesswork Out of Astronomy
A few weeks ago, my editor asked me to review a new telescope. Having never reviewed a single product for Gizmodo in all the years I’ve worked here, and having never laid my hands on a telescope, I made a valiant attempt to weasel my way out of this assignment. Unswayed by my arguments, my…
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Some Lucky U.S. Northerners Might See the Aurora Thursday and Friday
If you happen to live on the northern end of the U.S., and you’re not completely engulfed by ambient light pollution, you might be in for a once-in-a-lifetime celestial light show, though a lot of things have to happen to make the aurora borealis, often called the Northern Lights, appear overhead.