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Earth's Magnetic Field Is Poised to Flip Upside-Down
The big swap will happen any day now, at least in terms of geologic time.
The First Weather Forecast for a Distant, Planet-Like Star
It’s rather warm on Luhman 16B: Temperatures are around 2,000 degrees, with molten iron rain.
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Just Look at These Hot Young Stars
Just 600 light years away, a modest cloud gives birth to twin stars.
Our Nearest Neighbor Star Hosts an Earth-Mass Planet
An Earth-ish planet orbiting a red dwarf star would be the saddest thing. A perfect ball of rock, featuring plenty of carbon and water and methane, orbiting a dark star with no visible light, and stuck in tidal lock. That is, it orbits the star so...
Check This Stunning New Image of a Stellar Nursery
About 7,500 light-years from Earth, there was once a giant interstellar pocket that produced a host of bright young stars. Thanks to massive deposits of gas and dust -- the key star-making ingredients -- the phenomenon known as NGC 3324 was a hotbed...
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