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Science & Technology
10 Most Famous Meteorites – Little Astronomy
A massive iron mass the size of a small car lies where it fell some 80,000 years ago — and…
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List of Wolf-Rayet Stars – Little Astronomy
The filters applied to this “List of Wolf-Rayet Stars” return no entries. Wolf-Rayet stars are a real, well-studied class of…
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Mexican Astronauts – Little Astronomy
Mexico’s connection to space exploration is modest but meaningful: research partnerships, satellite projects and educational programs have tied the country…
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List of Mini-Neptunes – Little Astronomy
When astronomers survey nearby planetary systems, they often find a population of worlds that sit between rocky Earths and gas…
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List of Coolest Stars – Little Astronomy
The nearby sky contains a surprising variety of low-temperature objects—red and brown dwarfs, T and Y spectral types, and other…
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55 Cancri e: JWST Reveals a Shocking Atmosphere on the ‘Diamond Planet
55 Cancri e, formally named Janssen, is a fascinating and extreme exoplanet located approximately 41 light-years from Earth in the…
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History & Culture
The Antikythera Mechanism: Who Built the World’s First Analog Computer?
In the turquoise waters off the Greek island of Antikythera, a group of sponge divers in the spring of 1900…
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3I/ATLAS: A Comprehensive Scientific Monograph on the Third Interstellar Visitor
The study of interstellar objects (ISOs) represents a paradigm shift in planetary science, offering a novel form of “galactic sampling”…
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