Circumbinary castaways: Short-period binary systems can eject orbiting worlds

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Planets orbiting 'short-period' binary stars, or stars locked in close orbital embrace, can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their host stars' evolution, according to new research.
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Individual impurity atoms detectable in graphene

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Physicists have succeeded in using atomic force microscopy to clearly obtain images of individual impurity atoms in graphene ribbons. Thanks to the forces measured in the graphene's two-dimensional carbon lattice, they were able to identify boron and nitrogen for the first time.
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Hubble catches a colossal cluster

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a massive galaxy cluster glowing brightly in the darkness.
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