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The death of a massive star has to be one of the most beautiful endings in the Universe.
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Last year, XENON1T, the world's most sensitive dark matter detector, seemed to deliver a hit. Not of dark matter, but something...
Astrophysicists who set out to map the building blocks of life across space have found precursor molecules lurking in dust clouds...
The mess created by an encounter between a black hole and an unlucky star has yielded a rare and incredible treasure.
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