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Beam Us Up! Colliding Galaxy Clusters Look Like Starship Enterprise (Photo)
November 18, 2018 | ArticleIs that the USS Enterprise blurring as it makes the jump to warp speed? Well, no. But a new photo of the galaxy cluster Abell 1033 certainly does call the famous "Star Trek" starship to mind.
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Do Not Fear the Dark Matter Hurricane (The Dark Matter Hurricane Is Good)
November 17, 2018 | ArticleScientists think there's a 'dark matter hurricane' coming, but it's definitely not going to kill you. It's actually kind of exciting.
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Climate Change Made Recent Hurricanes Wetter. And They May Get Worse.
November 16, 2018 | ArticleRainfall in some of the biggest storms in recent years was fueled by climate change.
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Farewell, Kepler: NASA Shuts Down Prolific Planet-Hunting Space Telescope
November 16, 2018 | ArticleNASA decommissioned the Kepler space telescope last night (Nov. 15), beaming "goodnight" commands to the sun-orbiting observatory.
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This Week's Top Space Stories!
November 16, 2018 | CountdownThe Leonid meteor shower makes a pre-dawn appearance this weekend, the Voyager 2 probe is exiting the solar system and a frigid planet may be circling a dim red star close to the sun. These are some of Space.com's top stories this week.
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Signal Blip Sparks False Alarm for NASA's Opportunity Rover on Mars
November 16, 2018 | ArticleNo, NASA's Opportunity rover has not awakened from its long slumber on Mars.
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Image of the Day
November 16, 2018 | Image AlbumA vapor cone forms around the nose of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in this amazing photo from the Nov. 15, 2018 launch of the Es'Hail-2 communications satellite from Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Superbrilliant Galaxy Got Its Energy by Gobbling Up Its Neighbors
November 15, 2018 | ArticleThe most luminous galaxy known appears to have devoured three smaller galaxies at the same time, revealing details about why it shone so brightly.
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Epic Crash of Neutron Stars Creates 'Hypermassive Magnetar'
November 15, 2018 | ArticleThe historic neutron-star crash that astronomers observed last year generated a hypermassive, supermagnetic neutron star, a recent study suggests.
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How Satellites Are Tracking Devastation of California Wildfires from Space
November 15, 2018 | ArticleThe late-season Camp wildfire is still raging across Northern California, but firefighters are gradually corralling the Woolsey Fire, which has burned swaths of Southern California.
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