What a dying star's ashes tell us about the birth of our solar system

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Researchers discovered a dust grain forged in a stellar explosion before our solar system was born. Atom-level analysis of the specimen reveals new insights about how stars end their lives and seed the universe with the building blocks of new stars and planets.
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Ice feature on Saturn's giant moon, TItan

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Research team finds huge ice feature on Titan while trying to understand where Saturn's largest moon gets all of its methane. This research, which used Principal Components Analysis in an unconventional way, also validated results from previous Titan missions.
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Magma is the key to the moon's makeup

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For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how Earth's moon formed. Now researchers say they may have the answer.
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Astronomers discover 2,000-year-old remnant of a nova

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Researchers have discovered the remains of a nova in a galactic globular cluster, located near the center of Messier 22. The finding, using modern instruments, confirms one of the oldest observations of an event outside the solar system.
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Giant planets and big data: What deep learning reveals about Saturn's storms

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A deep learning approach to detecting storms on Saturn shows the vast regions affected by storms and that dark storm clouds contain material swept up from the lower atmosphere.
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Squid skin inspires creation of next-generation space blanket

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Drawing design inspiration from the skin of stealthy sea creatures, engineers have developed a next-generation, adaptive space blanket that gives users the ability to control their temperature. The innovation is detailed in a study published today in Nature Communications.
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