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The cosmic dance of three dead stars could break relativity
Astrophile is Joshua Sokol's monthly column on curious cosmic objects, from the solar system to the far reaches of the multiverse
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Galaxy supercluster is one of the biggest things in the universe
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Five things physicists hate about physics
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When is a black hole not a black hole? When it鈥檚 a boson star
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Protons are lighter than thought, which may solve a big puzzle
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Buckyballs mysteriously show up in cold space and warp starlight
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Time to embrace our odd place in the cosmos, inside a huge void?
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The mystery xenon in Earth鈥檚 atmosphere came from icy comets
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The Higgs bang: The particle that blew up the universe
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Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape
Many rocky worlds may have spent time as a newly named planetary form called a synestia 鈥� a loosely connected blob of molten rock and dust with a dented middle
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Odds on: Five scientific theories decided by wager
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Neutron stars that slow down could be eating ‘backwards’ gas
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Volunteers spot four super-Earths orbiting sun-like star
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New approach to dark energy might explain our cooling universe
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