Runaway stars leave infrared waves in space

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Astronomers are finding dozens of the fastest stars in our galaxy. When some speedy, massive stars plow through space, they can cause material to stack up in front of them in the same way that water piles up ahead of a ship. Called bow shocks, these dramatic, arc-shaped features in space are leading researchers to uncover massive, so-called runaway stars.
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Andromeda galaxy scanned with high-energy X-ray vision

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NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured the best high-energy X-ray view yet of a portion of our nearest large, neighboring galaxy, Andromeda. The space mission has observed 40 "X-ray binaries" -- intense sources of X-rays composed of a black hole or neutron star that feeds off a stellar companion.
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Rover rounds Martian dune to get to the other side

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, partway through the first up-close study ever conducted of extraterrestrial sand dunes, is providing dramatic views of a dune's steep face, where cascading sand has sculpted very different textures than the wavy ripples visible on the dune's windward slope.
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Promising new approach for controlled fabrication of carbon nanostructures

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A new strategy for fabricating atomically controlled carbon nanostructures used in molecular carbon-based electronics has been created by a group of researchers. The complete electronic structure of a conjugated organic polymer, and the influence of the substrate on its electronic properties are outlined in a new article.
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The Lagoon Nebula in Hydrogen, Sulfur, and Oxygen

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