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Gaia Mission Discovers Half a Million New Stars and 150,000 Asteroids
The latest data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory just dropped, and it’s a massive one: the spacecraft has identified half a million stars in a nearby cluster, nearly 400 gravitational lenses, and the orbits of some 156,000-odd asteroids. This outpouring of science is part of the observatory’s third data release, the first part…
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Han and Leia Went to Disney World for Their Honeymoon
An estimated 1,200 couples a year plan to have their weddings at a Disney theme park or spend their honeymoons there. Thanks to the upcoming Star Wars novel The Princess and the Scoundrel, we now know that Han Solo and General Leia Organa were among them.
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Updates From The Suicide Squad, Loki, and More
See Carlos Valdez bid Cisco farewell in new pictures from The Flash. Prepare yourselves, because Boss Baby is back. Plus, an explosive new clip from F9, and what’s to come on Legends of Tomorrow. To me, my spoilers!
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Nearby Gas Clouds Actually Form Behemoth Structure That Might Be The Milky Way’s Arm, Study Finds
Astronomers have discovered that many of the star-forming regions we see in the sky actually seem to form an undulating, 8,800-light-year-long wave containing 3 million solar masses’ worth of gas that could make up our local arm of the Milky Way galaxy.