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First astronomers noticed a lemon-shaped planet in deep space — They realized it may be growing diamonds

NASA and a team from the University of Chicago have found an odd, lemon-shaped exoplanet in deep space that might be ...

For the first time, astronomers witnessed the birth of a ‘magnetar’

The findings confirm a theory first proposed 16 years ago by University of California, Berkeley theoretical astrophysicist Dan Kasen. Kasen and his colleagues hypothesized that at least some ...
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First US observatory named in honor of a female astronomer, Vera Rubin

CNN — Pioneering American astronomer Vera Rubin once mentored fellow aspiring female astronomers and advocated for women in science. It's fitting that the first national US observatory named for a ...