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Once you leave the majestic skies of Earth, the word “cloud” no longer means a white fluffy-looking structure that produces rain. Instead, clouds in the greater universe are clumpy areas of greater density than their surroundings.
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The map that NASA launched in 1972 could lead extraterrestrials to Earth. A new map, nearly 50 years later, provides even better directions.
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“Something weird is happening” in the clouds of the planet next door—but some experts are raising doubts about the quality of the data.
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Move aside Jupiter. Saturn now has the largest number of known moons of any planet in the Solar System.
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In the pantheon of astronomical objects, black holes are among the most amazing.
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The bulky object—possibly the core of a failed gas giant—challenges what astronomers think about how planets form.
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A detailed look at the supermassive black hole in our galaxy’s core is the latest attempt to push our knowledge of gravity to the limit.
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The massive cosmic object lurks in a star system you can see with the naked eye.
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The unidentified body, revealed in gravitational waves, challenges notions about what happens when massive stars die in extreme explosions.
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