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A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls.
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There are five sweet spots where a spacecraft can keep pace with Earth as both orbit the Sun. They are called the Lagrange points, after the brilliant French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange who found special solutions to what is called the "three-body problem". To locate the second Lagrange point, L2, draw a line 150 million km...
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A massive, shell-like structure, the largest of its kind ever found, has been discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified the new record-holder for the smallest object that forms like a star: a tiny free-floating brown dwarf. Penn State researchers led the discovery.
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