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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Astronomy & Astrophysics Settling Down: The Milky Way Disc Flattened in Two Distinct Stages
The Milky Way was not always flat. Its youngest stars stay within about 400 light-years of the midplane, while its...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Radio Phoenix: How Colliding Clusters Revived a Cosmic Treble Clef
Some of the most interesting objects in the sky are the hardest to study, because our own galaxy is in...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Family Resemblance: Why Multi-Planet Systems Come in Two Kinds
The Solar System was once treated as the template for how planets ought to arrange themselves. Then exoplanet surveys turned...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics Family Resemblance: Why Multi-Planet Systems Come in Two Kinds
The Solar System was once treated as the template for how planets ought to arrange themselves. Then exoplanet surveys turned...
Quick Reads Euclid Comet: A Galaxy Survey Telescope Finds an Icy Visitor by Chance
Euclid was built to photograph billions of distant galaxies, and it goes out of its way to avoid the Solar...
Astronomy & Astrophysics Lopsided Skies: Webb Maps a Hot Jupiter Atmosphere in Three Dimensions
Astronomers usually picture a distant planet's atmosphere as a neat ring of light, the same thickness all the way round....
Our Planet & Beyond Privatization and Space
I spent a considerable amount of time reflecting on what I can contribute as my first post on The Astro...