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Scientists Spot Ancient, Ultra-Fast Wind from the Early Universe
September 06, 2018 | ArticleGalaxies use powerful winds to save themselves from early deaths. And researchers just spotted one from just a billion years after the Big Bang.
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Scientist Robbed of Nobel in 1974 Finally Wins $3 Million Physics Prize — And Gives It Away
September 06, 2018 | ArticleJocelyn Bell Burnell shocked the physics world when she discovered radio pulsars. But the Nobel committee gave the 1974 award to her supervisor instead.
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Pulsar Discoverer Jocelyn Bell Burnell Wins $3 Million Breakthrough Prize
September 06, 2018 | ArticleBritish astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell will receive a $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, for her 1967 discovery of the fast-spinning stellar corpses known as pulsars and her scientific leadership in the 50 years since then.
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Morning, Kepler! NASA's Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Wakes Up Again
September 05, 2018 | ArticleNASA's low-on-fuel Kepler space telescope, which has discovered more than 2,650 alien planets to date, has awoken from yet another slumber and begun making science observations again, agency officials announced today (Sept. 5).
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Space Image of the Day Gallery (July 2018)
September 05, 2018 | Image AlbumSee amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in July 2018.
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To Find Alien Life, NASA Needs Bigger, Bolder Exoplanet-Hunting Telescopes
September 05, 2018 | ArticleA congressionally mandated report published today (Sept. 5) by the premier science advisory group in the United States has found that NASA should focus its exoplanet research budget on large space- and ground-based telescopes.
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Space Image of the Day Gallery (June 2018)
September 05, 2018 | Image AlbumSee amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in June 2018.
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Space Image of the Day Gallery (May 2018)
September 05, 2018 | Image AlbumSee amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in May 2018.
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Is That the Death Star? Japanese Probe's Pictures of Ryugu Show a Divot on Top
September 05, 2018 | ArticleThat's no moon — it's an asteroid.
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Faster Than Light? Neutron-Star Merger Shot Out a Jet with Seemingly Impossible Speed
September 05, 2018 | ArticleThe dramatic neutron-star merger that astronomers observed in August 2017 generated a jet of material that seemed to move four times faster than light, a new study reports.
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