The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

— Anaxagoras 428 BC

Astronomy

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If you could stand on Titan -- what would you see?


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Moon Games

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This is not a screen from


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NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula

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NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a


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Portrait of NGC 1055

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Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1055 is a dominant member of


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Stars, like bees, swarm around the center of bright


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What did Comet Lemmon look like when it was at its best?


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How typical is our Solar System?


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What would Russia's inability to launch crewed missions mean for ISS?

Russia's only launch site capable of sending humans to orbit has suffered serious damage that may take two years to fix. Will NASA keep supporting the ISS without Russian involvement, or is this the end for the space station?
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What would Russia's inability to launch crewed missions mean for ISS?

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - 5 hours 41 min ago
Russia's only launch site capable of sending humans to orbit has suffered serious damage that may take two years to fix. Will NASA keep supporting the ISS without Russian involvement, or is this the end for the space station?
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Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in Earth's past

Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures
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Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in Earth's past

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - 5 hours 41 min ago
Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures
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We now have a greater understanding of how exercise slows cancer

Tumour growth is reduced by exercise due to a shift in the body’s metabolism that means muscle cells outcompete cancer cells in the race to get sugar to grow
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We now have a greater understanding of how exercise slows cancer

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - 5 hours 42 min ago
Tumour growth is reduced by exercise due to a shift in the body’s metabolism that means muscle cells outcompete cancer cells in the race to get sugar to grow
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The life-giving secret of protoplanetary disks? Dust.

Universe Today - 5 hours 53 min ago

The complex molecules required for life on Earth might never have formed if it wasn’t for cosmic dust.

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ByteDance Launches Doubao Real-Time AI Voice Assistant for Phones

Scientific American.com - 6 hours 20 min ago

The company behind TikTok is rolling out a smartphone AI assistant that behaves less like an app and more like a secretary

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The Universe Was Warm Before It Was Bright

Universe Today - 6 hours 56 min ago

There is a period in the Universe known as the cosmic dark ages. It lies between the recombination of the first atoms and the ignition of the first stars, when the Universe was thought to be cold and dark. Now astronomers have looked at the faint glow of atomic hydrogen to find that while the Universe was dark, it wasn't quite as cold as we thought.

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Sagittarius B2 Molecular Cloud

NASA Image of the Day - 7 hours 57 min ago
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope took a look at the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud, the most massive, and active star-forming region in our galaxy, located only a few hundred light years from our central supermassive black hole.
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A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - 9 hours 41 min ago
We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient
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A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient
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Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - 9 hours 41 min ago
A handful of people with HIV have been cured after receiving HIV-resistant stem cells – but a man who received non-resistant stem cells is also now HIV-free
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