There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its last surviving remnants.
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There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its last surviving remnants.
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The series of fortunate astrophysical events that gave us Ceres.
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Cosmologists are using secondary signatures from the cosmic microwave background to map the universe’s hidden matter.
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One question for Jillian Scudder, astrophysicist and author of “The Milky Way Smells of Rum & Raspberries.”
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The time is now to prepare for the cosmic object that could spell our end.
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One question for Miguel Aragon, a computational physicist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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Extraterrestrial life doesn’t need to be intelligent to be worth finding.
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One question for Paul Sutter, a theoretical cosmologist at Stony Brook University.
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One question for Joseph Silk, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University.
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The defining problem in the search for ET.
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