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How Do We Know When the Sun Will Die?
Consider the Sun: hot, massive, and the reason all of this (gestures wildly) is possible. Our local star fuels all life as we know it, providing the energy that sustains everything from the smallest photosynthesizing microorganisms to the largest animals on land and in the seas.
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Disney’s Bob Chapek Addresses Scarlett Johansson Lawsuit and How Hollywood Is Changing
The covid-19 pandemic has gone a long way in forcing Hollywood to change the way it looks at movie releases, for good or ill — and how adapting to that change doesn’t always work out amicably. As Disney continues to try and settle its ongoing legal battle with Marvel’s Black Widow star Scarlett Johansson behind…
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This Blasted Star Is Getting the Hell Out of the Milky Way
Careening through the Milky Way at nearly 2 million miles per hour, the star LP 40–365 shows no signs of stopping. A team of astronomers recently figured out that the star was propelled into its current speedrun by a supernova explosion millions of years ago.
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Gigantic ‘Blinking’ Star Presents a Cosmic Mystery
For a period of several months, a huge star located more than 25,000 light-years from Earth got increasingly dimmer before eventually returning to its usual brightness. An obstruction of some kind likely caused this strange effect, but astronomers aren’t exactly sure what it is.