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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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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 24, 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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