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How We Get Planets from Clumping Dust
Our gleaming Earth, brimming with liquid water and swarming with life, began as all rocky planets do: dust. Somehow, mere…
5 months ago
Astronomers Calculate Which Exoplanets Are Most Likely to Have Water
Astronomers know of about 60 rocky exoplanets orbiting in the habitable zones of their stars. When they try to determine…
8 months ago
Betelgeuse is Almost 50% Brighter Than Normal. What’s Going On?
Whenever something happens with Betelgeuse, speculations about it exploding as a supernova proliferate. It would be cool if it did.…
1 year ago
Return to the Moon with Blue Origin’s Rockets and Lunar Lander Made Out of LEGO
Indulge your inner man-child (or woman-child) with these LEGO versions of the Blue Origin Blue Moon lunar lander, New Glenn…
5 years ago
Track Comet ISON’s Journey Around the Sun with this Paper Model
Planet orbits are so easy to picture - eight nearly concentric hula hoops centered on the sun. Comets are weirder.…
11 years ago