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The Sun May Have Started Its Life with a Binary Companion

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A new theory published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters by scientists from Harvard University suggests that the Sun may once have had a binary companion of similar mass. If con...

The Atmosphere of an Ultra Hot Jupiter Exoplanet

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A hot Jupiter is a gas giant exoplanet roughly similar to Jupiter in our solar system but orbiting so close to its host star (with a period less than about ten days) that its atmosphere i...

Where Might Very Unequal Mass Black Hole Binaries Come From?

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The direct detection of gravitational waves from at least eleven sources during the past five years has offered spectacular confirmation of Einstein's model of gravity and space-time, whi...

Modeling the Sun's Heliosphere

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The heliosphere is the bubble-like cavity around the Sun, created by the solar wind, that extends well beyond Pluto until the pressure of the interstellar medium ultimately terminates it....

Recurrent Cometary Activity in Don Quixote

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Don Quixote (alias Near-Earth Object NEO 3552) was discovered in 1983.  Subsequent infrared and optical observations measured its diameter as about 18.7 kilometers, making it the thi...
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