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El Niño Is Underway
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Satellite observations of sea surface height indicated that the 2026 event continued to strengthen in early June.
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Search for Hidden Cosmic Companions in Sun’s Backyard
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Some stars have planets. Others are orbited by brown dwarfs, balls of gas too massive to be planets, but too low-mass to be stars. Astronomers love these brown dwarf-star pairs because being paired with a star helps reveal a brown…
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NASA’s Fermi Mission Uncovers Possible Sibling Supernova Remnants
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A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar siblings that once orbited each other. The first star’s detonation sent its binary companion hurtling through space, and then, after…
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