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This Exoplanet-Shredding White Dwarf May Foretell The End Of Our Solar System
Scientists have discovered evidence of a star system that might foreshadow the fate of our own.
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This Tangled Mess Is Helping Scientists Study The Early Universe
Is this the Gordian knot of the 21st century? Or a high-tech Medusa? Or maybe both? Well, this photograph was taken inside the Very Large Telescope (VLT) operated by the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal, Chile.
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Making Stars With Lasers Looks Like Tron Made Real
Not how to destroy an entire planet, but how humans are able to create a star — with the help of a laser tuned to 589.2 nanometres wavelength. The fantastic superstructure you are staring at is the Unit Telescope of the Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.