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Category: What is out in space?

What is matter and dark matter? What kinds of things happen in space? What do we know about the physics in space?
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Seven Earth-sized Planets Found

Posted on February 22, 2017October 24, 2022 by Gina Misra

Today, Nature published the landmark discovery of a system of seven planets around a star named TRAPPIST-1 about 40 light years away. This…

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    Life Under a Black Sun

    Posted on February 1, 2017March 8, 2024 by Sciworthy

    Did you know that a black hole is a kind of star? What would it really be like if our sun, also a star, was a black hole?

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      Could Life Thrive on Radiation? Scientists Say It’s Possible

      Posted on September 29, 2015October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

      All life on Earth survives because of the sun. Plants use a process called photosynthesis to transfer energy from the Sun’s rays into the…

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        Stray stars between galaxies add to the cosmic light in the universe

        Posted on November 9, 2014June 13, 2025 by Sciworthy

        Using an experiment carried into space on a NASA suborbital rocket, astronomers at Caltech and their colleagues have detected a diffuse…

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