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Skywatching

Northern U.S. states could see aurora as NOAA predicts geomagnetic storm on September 8

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Videos

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Deep Sky Objects

Moon under a blockade? Chinese scientists sound alarm on potential military conflicts in cislunar space

Moon under a blockade? Chinese scientists sound alarm on potential military conflicts in cislunar space
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For the first time, scientists may have finally found direct evidence of dark matter

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Could NASA's TESS space telescope help in finding dark matter? New study proposes a way
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Scientists just found a 'mega-Earth' with 23 times Earth's mass, and it's breaking the rules
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Nearly 12-billion-year-old merger: Meet LKH, the earliest known galaxy to have collided with the Milky Way

Nearly 12-billion-year-old merger: Meet LKH, the earliest known galaxy to have collided with the Milky Way
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NASA's James Webb makes first discovery of three supermassive black holes in a single galaxy

NASA's James Webb makes first discovery of three supermassive black holes in a single galaxy
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Today's Moon Phase

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Constellation

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A 'skull' rock on Mars? The eerie formation NASA can't yet explain 5 PHOTOS ASTRONOMY

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Instruments

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What is the Extremely Large Telescope and what makes it special? All about the most powerful telescope ever made
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