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Asteroseismology and the Sound of Stars

Most astronomers gaze at the heavens and see stars. William Chaplin hears an orchestra — a celestial symphony in which the smallest stars are flutes, the medium-sized ones are trombones and the giants...

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Project Icarus: Laying the Plans for Interstellar Travel.

“Why do we pay this obsessive attention to backing up a document, which we can reproduce, when we pay no attention to backing up our civilization?” — Andreas Tziolas. Ross Andersen: Project Icarus,...

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Explaining and Ordering the Heavens: A Visual History of Mapping the Universe

Explaining and Ordering the Heavens is an online exhibition from The Library of Congress, examining evolving views of the universe over 8 centuries.Filed under: Book-Text-Read-Zines,...

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Cosmic bling: When two dead stars collide, gold is created.

The announcement was short. It lasted only a fraction of second — a blink of an eye. But a spacecraft in Earth’s orbit, keeping an eye on such events, captured it on June 3 this year. The announcement...

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