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Beyond the Planets: The Quirky Underdogs of the Solar System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids,...
Do the Planets Ever Actually Align?
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIf you imagine the eight major planets in a single line stretching out from the sun, this alignment occurs roughly every 13.4 trillion years. And our...
Moon in June forms line with planets in early morning | The Sky Guy
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 1 day agoGliese 12b, smaller than the Earth but larger than Venus, orbits its star every 12.8 days but its...
Fact Check: About That Brightly Colored Viral Image of Dwarf Planet Pluto Circulating Online
Snopes via Yahoo News· 5 days agoX account @MAstronomers Claim: A photo being shared online in May 2024 authentically shows the dwarf...
How many stars in the Milky Way die each year?
LiveScience· 3 hours agoWhen you gaze up at the stars, you see the same constellations that the ancient Greeks, and even the early hunter-gatherers, did. According to James De...
The mysterious pairs of planets we still can't explain
BBC News· 1 day agoDrifting through the Orion Nebula – an enormous cloud of dust and gas relatively close by in our...
Galactic Oddity: Astronomers Spot Giant Planet That’s As Light as Cotton Candy
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoAstronomers have discovered WASP-193b, an extraordinarily light planet orbiting a distant star in...
Astronomers identify most likely habitable Earthlike planet yet that no-one reading this will ever...
Boing Boing· 7 days agoGliese 12b orbits a red dwarf 40 light years again and is reportedly the most promising candidate...
'Dot and Bubble': All the Easter eggs in 'Doctor Who's brutal 'Black Mirror' parody
Mashable· 12 hours ago"Dot and Bubble" may count as one of the greatest fake-outs in Doctor Who history. Just when you...
James Webb Space Telescope finds a dusty skeleton in this starburst galaxy's closet
SPACE.com· 2 days agoThe dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 is the star of the show in the James Webb Space Telescope's latest cosmic...