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Astronomers Found a Planet That Should Not Exist
As part of an international team of astronomers, we studied a star that looks much like our Sun will in billions of years’ time, and found it has a planet which by all rights it should have devoured.
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When to See the Venus-Jupiter Conjunction This Weekend
Something cool is happening this weekend: Venus and Jupiter will look really close in the sky, almost appearing to touch each other, even though they’re millions of miles apart. They’ll appear their very closest on Sunday, May 1, around 5 a.m. AEST. This is known as a “conjunction,” and while the experts at EarthSky have…
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When to See Mercury With Your Naked Eyes This July
With all of the celestial events coming soon, we can safely rebrand the next few months Big Planet Season. All of this year’s supermoons have come and gone, but the cosmic gifts dotting the calendar are a bit more mysterious and striking than the moon: Some of the solar system’s biggest and most distant planets…