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What Is The Black Drop Effect? How An Optical Phenomenon Frustrated Astronomers And May Have Changed Australia’s HistoryThis photograph taken during the Transit of Venus in 2004 shows the black drop effect, with the area of darkness appearing to bulge out where Venus's touches the edge of the SunWhat Is The Black Drop Effect? How An Optical Phenomenon Frustrated Astronomers And May Have Changed Australia’s HistoryThis photograph taken during the Transit of Venus in 2004 shows the black drop effect, with the area of darkness appearing to bulge out where Venus's touches the edge of the Sun

What Is The Black Drop Effect? How An Optical Phenomenon Frustrated Astronomers And May Have Changed Australia’s History

We don’t get to see it very often, but that makes it even more important when it happens.

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You Can Now See The Before And After Of The SpaceX Collision On The Moonthe cratered surface of the Moon and in the middle two overlapping crater with one of them showing fresh streaks of dark and bright material

You Can Now See The Before And After Of The SpaceX Collision On The Moon

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Newly Discovered Fastest Star In The Galaxy Moves At 8 Percent Of The Speed Of Light, And Will Allow Us To Take An Incredible Black Hole Measurementartist impression shows many orbits with a variety of of inclinations around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy

Newly Discovered Fastest Star In The Galaxy Moves At 8 Percent Of The Speed Of Light, And Will Allow Us To Take An Incredible Black Hole Measurement

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Newly Discovered State Of Matter Is Like Mixing Water And Oil: Meet The Quantum Droplets Of Bosons And Fermionsa water droplet on the surface of a cd with light shingin through it showing funky little refractions

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Newly Discovered State Of Matter Is Like Mixing Water And Oil: Meet The Quantum Droplets Of Bosons And Fermionsa water droplet on the surface of a cd with light shingin through it showing funky little refractions
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Newly Discovered State Of Matter Is Like Mixing Water And Oil: Meet The Quantum Droplets Of Bosons And Fermions

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The Milky Way Merged With Another Galaxy In The Distant Past, 1.8 Billion Years Before Its Collision With The Infamous Sausage GalaxyA small bright galaxy is colliding with a much larger one

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The Milky Way Merged With Another Galaxy In The Distant Past, 1.8 Billion Years Before Its Collision With The Infamous Sausage GalaxyA small bright galaxy is colliding with a much larger one
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The Milky Way Merged With Another Galaxy In The Distant Past, 1.8 Billion Years Before Its Collision With The Infamous Sausage Galaxy

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Boyajian's Star Doesn’t Have An Alien Megastructure After All, But It May Be Orbited By A Massive Planet Or Brown DwarfWe still don't know why Boyajian's star has changed its brightness so dramatically, but if comets are responsible, we might know what is stirring them up

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Boyajian's Star Doesn’t Have An Alien Megastructure After All, But It May Be Orbited By A Massive Planet Or Brown DwarfWe still don't know why Boyajian's star has changed its brightness so dramatically, but if comets are responsible, we might know what is stirring them up
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Boyajian's Star Doesn’t Have An Alien Megastructure After All, But It May Be Orbited By A Massive Planet Or Brown Dwarf

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Scientists Have Found A Surprising Number Of “Extraterrestrial Amino Acids” Never Before Seen On Eartha shiny grey jagged rock is visible in this image

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Scientists Have Found A Surprising Number Of “Extraterrestrial Amino Acids” Never Before Seen On Eartha shiny grey jagged rock is visible in this image
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Scientists Have Found A Surprising Number Of “Extraterrestrial Amino Acids” Never Before Seen On Earth

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In 1638 Galileo Showed Giant Humans Can't Exist, Or At Least Not Without Being Truly MonstrousA silhouette of a giant at the end of a path through a forest (artwork).

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In 1638 Galileo Showed Giant Humans Can't Exist, Or At Least Not Without Being Truly MonstrousA silhouette of a giant at the end of a path through a forest (artwork).
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In 1638 Galileo Showed Giant Humans Can't Exist, Or At Least Not Without Being Truly Monstrous

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It Is Already Time To Get Ready For The Next Eclipse – August 2, 2027 Will See The Longest For The Rest Of The CenturyA spiral progression of 10 images show in the sun progressively more covered by the moon and at the center totality showing the corona and the solar prominence

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It Is Already Time To Get Ready For The Next Eclipse – August 2, 2027 Will See The Longest For The Rest Of The CenturyA spiral progression of 10 images show in the sun progressively more covered by the moon and at the center totality showing the corona and the solar prominence
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It Is Already Time To Get Ready For The Next Eclipse – August 2, 2027 Will See The Longest For The Rest Of The Century

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SpaceX Broke Yet Another World Record Last Weekend With The Launch Of Two More Falcon 9 Rocketsthe first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket returns to Earth.

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SpaceX Broke Yet Another World Record Last Weekend With The Launch Of Two More Falcon 9 Rocketsthe first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket returns to Earth.
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SpaceX Broke Yet Another World Record Last Weekend With The Launch Of Two More Falcon 9 Rockets

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A Different POV: Watch A Shadow Crawl Across Earth As The Total Solar Eclipse Is Captured From Spacethe total solar eclipse in Lerma with a frw people watching and taking pictures

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A Different POV: Watch A Shadow Crawl Across Earth As The Total Solar Eclipse Is Captured From Spacethe total solar eclipse in Lerma with a frw people watching and taking pictures
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A Different POV: Watch A Shadow Crawl Across Earth As The Total Solar Eclipse Is Captured From Space

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A Particle Made Mostly Of Force And Very Little Matter May Have Finally Been Discovered. Introducing: GlueballsA Circular gradient refracted through ribbed glass with luminous red magenta glow

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A Particle Made Mostly Of Force And Very Little Matter May Have Finally Been Discovered. Introducing: GlueballsA Circular gradient refracted through ribbed glass with luminous red magenta glow
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A Particle Made Mostly Of Force And Very Little Matter May Have Finally Been Discovered. Introducing: Glueballs

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As An “Eclipse Hunter”, This Was My Third Total Solar Eclipse And I Was Just As In Awe Of This Celestial Spectaclethe sun is completely covered by the Moon and the light is visible only at the edge

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As An “Eclipse Hunter”, This Was My Third Total Solar Eclipse And I Was Just As In Awe Of This Celestial Spectaclethe sun is completely covered by the Moon and the light is visible only at the edge
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As An “Eclipse Hunter”, This Was My Third Total Solar Eclipse And I Was Just As In Awe Of This Celestial Spectacle

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The Difference Between My Eclipse Photos And My Colleague’s Makes Me Want To CryOn the left: A gorgeous photo of the eclipse, with the Sun glowing red behind the Moon, and a visible solar prominence on the left of the Moon. On the right: A terrible eclipse-shaped shadow, projected onto the inside of a car door.

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The Difference Between My Eclipse Photos And My Colleague’s Makes Me Want To CryOn the left: A gorgeous photo of the eclipse, with the Sun glowing red behind the Moon, and a visible solar prominence on the left of the Moon. On the right: A terrible eclipse-shaped shadow, projected onto the inside of a car door.
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The Difference Between My Eclipse Photos And My Colleague’s Makes Me Want To Cry

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We’ve Just Discovered A Brand New Object At The End Of The Universe – Meet A “Black Hole Star”An artist's somewhat imaginative portrayal of a supermassive black hole surrounded by dense layers of gas in a ball with a radius the size of Neptune's orbit

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We’ve Just Discovered A Brand New Object At The End Of The Universe – Meet A “Black Hole Star”An artist's somewhat imaginative portrayal of a supermassive black hole surrounded by dense layers of gas in a ball with a radius the size of Neptune's orbit
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We’ve Just Discovered A Brand New Object At The End Of The Universe – Meet A “Black Hole Star”

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"Dolor De Ojos": As Is Traditional, There Was A Spike In Concerning Google Searches After The EclipseAn image of yesterday's eclipse, with a solar prominence at the left-hand side. Overlayed is a graph showing interest in the search term "my eyes hurt", spiking around the time of the eclipse.

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"Dolor De Ojos": As Is Traditional, There Was A Spike In Concerning Google Searches After The EclipseAn image of yesterday's eclipse, with a solar prominence at the left-hand side. Overlayed is a graph showing interest in the search term "my eyes hurt", spiking around the time of the eclipse.
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"Dolor De Ojos": As Is Traditional, There Was A Spike In Concerning Google Searches After The Eclipse

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Meteorites Have Hit Houses, Cows, And Maybe Even A Dog. But Over The Years They’ve Also Hit A Number Of CarsA picture of the night sky with a meteor streaking across it.
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Meteorites Have Hit Houses, Cows, And Maybe Even A Dog. But Over The Years They’ve Also Hit A Number Of Cars

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There’s Something Odd About This Year’s Solar Eclipses: Why Flat Maps Are To BlameThe 2024 solar eclipse, like and others moved from west to east across the Earth, during which this photo was taken, but on maps of this year's eclipses it looks like it is doing the opposite
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There’s Something Odd About This Year’s Solar Eclipses: Why Flat Maps Are To Blame

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This Week's Total Solar Eclipse Will Occur On The Perseids Meteor Shower Peak – For The First Time In Recorded Science Historythe image of a total solar eclipse next to the perseids falling over a lake
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This Week's Total Solar Eclipse Will Occur On The Perseids Meteor Shower Peak – For The First Time In Recorded Science History

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Take A Glimpse Into The Universe Like Never BeforeMany galaxies in the universe
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Take A Glimpse Into The Universe Like Never Before

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How Many Times Could Earth Fit Inside The Sun?Earth and Sun
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How Many Times Could Earth Fit Inside The Sun?

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Watch As A Solar Storm Messes Up NASA Mars Rover's CameraCharged Particles Caused by Solar Storm
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Watch As A Solar Storm Messes Up NASA Mars Rover's Camera

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YouTuber's Mini Golf Course Uses A Quirk Of Geometry To Make Hole-In-Ones Almost GuaranteedMini golf putters, balls, and a hole on a mini golf green.

YouTuber's Mini Golf Course Uses A Quirk Of Geometry To Make Hole-In-Ones Almost Guaranteed

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Mathematicians Have A Strategy To Win Wordle 99% Of The Time – And You Can Do It Toophone screen showing someone playing a game of wordle where they have guessed GUESS, BORED, PIZZA, and HUMAN. There is a coffee cup visible in the background of the shot on a table.

Mathematicians Have A Strategy To Win Wordle 99% Of The Time – And You Can Do It Too

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quantum mechanics

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Schrödinger's Cat Just Got An Upgrade: "Sibling" Cat States Now Push The Limits Of Quantum PhysicsReconstructed Wigner function of a superposition of two trisqueezed states. Its sixfold rotational symmetry and regions of Wigner negativity reveal highly non-classical quantum interference in the ion’s motion.

Schrödinger's Cat Just Got An Upgrade: "Sibling" Cat States Now Push The Limits Of Quantum Physics

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A Time Traveler’s Party Is Happening This Friday at Caltech – Don't Be Late!a time travel concept with roman numerals like a clock are spread around a wormhole while a window at the center shows a party

A Time Traveler’s Party Is Happening This Friday at Caltech – Don't Be Late!

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Polarized Light: What It Is And Why It Is So Important To AstronomersThe polarization produced by interstellar dust is how we know the Milky Way Galaxy, and others like M81 shown here, carry a galaxy-wide magnetic field

Polarized Light: What It Is And Why It Is So Important To Astronomers

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Marie Curie Died From Her Radioactivity Research, So How Did They Decontaminate Her Lab And Turn It Into A Museum?A picture of Marie Curies old lab, now turned into the Curie Museum.

Marie Curie Died From Her Radioactivity Research, So How Did They Decontaminate Her Lab And Turn It Into A Museum?

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Never-Before-Seen Material Was Forged In "Gigantic Accidental Laboratory" Created By Hiroshima Atomic Bomb ExplosionA black and white photograph of the mushroom cloud that erupted after the Little Boy atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

Never-Before-Seen Material Was Forged In "Gigantic Accidental Laboratory" Created By Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Explosion

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Gold's Atomic Structure May Be The Secret Behind Its Eternal ShineA photo showing a pile of rough looking gold nuggets. They are all pristine and shiny.

Gold's Atomic Structure May Be The Secret Behind Its Eternal Shine

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Meteorites From Mars Are Rare. A Meteorite Brought To The Surface From The Planet's Interior 1.27 Billion Years Ago Is Something ElseArtist's impression of the asteroid impact that knocked (NWA) 13441 off Mars so it would eventually reach Earth

Meteorites From Mars Are Rare. A Meteorite Brought To The Surface From The Planet's Interior 1.27 Billion Years Ago Is Something Else

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For The First Time Ever We've Photographed Earth Being Hidden Behind A Martian MoonThe Perseverance rover was designed to look down and ahead, but when it looks up, sometimes it sees amazing things

For The First Time Ever We've Photographed Earth Being Hidden Behind A Martian Moon

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