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The current iteration of the galactic map is caught up with the sequels, featuring the Jedi planet Ahch-To and Sith planet ...
A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...
In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...
Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.
How many planets occupy the galaxy far, far away where the dark and light sides of the Force have been striving against each ...
Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...
Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...
We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a significant nongravitational acceleration, which led to a wide variety of ...
Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...
As you can see from our image below (which is, admittedly, only a small fraction of the map), there is a lot of ground to cover in a galaxy far, far away. Over 100,000 light years end-to-end to be ...
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