Author: Chelsea Gohd
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Discovery Alert: Scientists Spot a Planetary Carousel
The Planets KOI-134 b and KOI-134 c The Discovery A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has two planets which orbit their star in a unique style,…
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What’s a Nova? Inside the Chaos of Erupting and Exploding Stars
Stars — they shimmer in the night sky, burning hot across the cosmos. But sometimes … they erupt. Enter: novae. In short, a nova is an outburst in a binary system, or system with two stars that closely orbit one…