Tag: Andrew Vanderburg
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Nation & World
Cosmic ‘Death Star’ destroys a planet
Astronomers announced today that they have spotted a large, rocky object disintegrating in its death spiral around a distant white dwarf star. “We’re watching a solar system get destroyed,” noted a Harvard researcher.
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Nation & World
Kepler ‘rising from the ashes’
Despite a malfunction that ended its primary mission in May 2013, the Kepler spacecraft is alive and working. The evidence comes from the discovery of a new super-Earth using data collected during Kepler’s “second life.”