Betelgeuse Is Spinning As Fast As It Can
Poised brilliantly on the shoulder of Orion The Hunter, the red supergiant, superstar Betelgeuse sparkles ominously, mysteriously in the sky–silently keeping to itself a well-cloaked[…]
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Tag: Planets
The Sinister Story Of Our Sun’s Evil Twin
Dwelling in our Milky Way Galaxy, about 300 light-years away, there is a small star named HIP68468. This little star is so much like our[…]
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Lava Flows On This Oddball World
Many planet-hunting astronomers think that super-Earths are the most common type of exoplanet in our Milky Way Galaxy. Belonging to the strange and often exotic[…]
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Lost, Lonely Jupiter-Like World Without A Home
Silent and cold, the strange and eerie space between stars is a bewildering, bewitching, and mysterious place where orphaned planets wander without a stellar parent[…]
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C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS): The Return Of The Native
Banished from its warm and well-lit birthplace in the inner Solar System, only to wander through the wilderness of the most frigid, dark, and desolate[…]
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The Mysterious Dance Of Four Distant Worlds
The first discoveries of alien planets, orbiting distant stars beyond our own Sun, proved to be shocking–strange wonderland worlds that astronomers originally believed could not[…]
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