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The New Horizons spacecraft is heading towards a mystery rock
Astrophile聽is our Joshua Sokol's column covering curious cosmic objects from within the solar system to the furthest reaches of the multiverse
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Dark energy survives neutron star crash test while rivals fail
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Why our ‘freakish’ galaxy has got cosmologists seriously worried
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Gravitational waves have let us see huge neutron stars colliding
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We can finally map the spiral arm on the far side of the galaxy
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Half the universe鈥檚 missing matter has just been finally found
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The sun’s energy could speed up dark matter so we can detect it
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Far-off galaxies are firing rare high-energy cosmic rays at us
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Mysterious flashing star seems destined for an explosive end
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鈥楢lien megastructure鈥� star may host Saturn-like exoplanet
Rather than being caused by extraterrestrial construction, the bizarre dimming of Tabby鈥檚 star could instead be due to a closely orbiting, ringed planet
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Speedy white dwarf may have survived a rare type of supernova
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Ice at Mars鈥檚 equator hints the planet was once much more tilted
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New sky survey shows that dark energy may one day tear us apart
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Half the atoms inside your body came from across the universe
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