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Sustainable Development

Kepler Is Saved! How NASA Used Its Deep Space Network To Avert Catastrophe

It’s been a nail-biting few days for the planet-hunting community, after NASA announced late last week that its Kepler space telescope had unexpectedly switched to &l...

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Sustainable Development

How We Entered A New Era Of Astronomy

Last week, a new era of astronomy began as Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory executive director David Reitze stood before a packed room at the National Pr...

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Sustainable Development

How Astronomers Will Actually Image The Solar System's Ninth Planet

The minds of space nerds around the world collectively exploded yesterday, after astronomers announced that there is likely an undiscovered Neptune-sized planet in the oute...

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Sustainable Development

The Buddhist Monk Who Uses Space To Teach Spirituality

In a pitch black room, Ryo Kasuga talk?s space as a simulated solar system rotates above my head. Kasuga, however, is no astronomer. He?s a Buddhist monk intent on using th...

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Environment

Researchers Use Hubble Telescope to Reveal Cloudy Weather On Alien World

A team of scientists led by researchers in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago report they have definitively characterized the atmosph...

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