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Space: Exploration Space: Structures and Features
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Ground-breaking number of brown dwarfs discovered - Ground-breaking Number of Brown Dwarfs Discovered      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Brown dwarfs, mysterious objects that straddle the line between stars and planets, are essential to ...

Space: Structures and Features
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Researchers map the movement of white dwarfs of the Milky Way - Researchers Map the Movement of White Dwarfs of the Milky Way      (via sciencedaily.com) 

White dwarfs were once normal stars similar to the Sun but then collapsed after exhausting all their ...

Space: The Solar System
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Massive comet-like object pollutes atmosphere of a white dwarf - Massive Comet-Like Object Pollutes Atmosphere of a White Dwarf      (via sciencedaily.com) 

For the first time, scientists have witnessed a massive object with the makeup of a comet being ripp...

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Discovery tests theory on cooling of white dwarf stars      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you'll likely learn that they ar ...

Space: The Solar System
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Brown dwarf weather forecasts improved - Brown Dwarf Weather Forecasts Improved      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Dim objects called brown dwarfs, less massive than the Sun but more massive than Jupiter, have power ...

Space: Structures and Features
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Hyperfast white dwarf stars provide clues for understanding supernovae - Hyperfast White Dwarf Stars Provide Clues for Understanding Supernovae      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Scientists have used computer modeling to show how a hypothesized type of supernova would evolve on...

Space: The Solar System
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Moon discovered over dwarf planet Makemake in the Kuiper Belt - Moon Discovered Over Dwarf Planet Makemake in the Kuiper Belt      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Scientists have discovered an elusive, dark moon orbiting Makemake, one of the 'big four' dwarf plan ...

Space: The Solar System
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Hubble discovers moon orbiting the dwarf planet Makemake - Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Peering to the outskirts of our solar system, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a small, dar...

Space: The Solar System
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Harsh space weather may doom potential life on red-dwarf planets - Harsh Space Weather May Doom Potential Life on Red-Dwarf Planets      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Life in the universe might be even rarer than we thought. Recently, astronomers looking for potentia...

Space: The Solar System
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NASA spacecraft becomes first to orbit a dwarf planet - NASA Spacecraft Becomes First to Orbit a Dwarf Planet      (via sciencedaily.com) 

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. The spac ...

Space: Structures and Features
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Super-Earth skimming habitable zone of red dwarf - Super-Earth Skimming Habitable Zone of Red Dwarf      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A super-Earth planet has been found near the habitable zone of a red dwarf star only 37 light-years ...

Space: The Solar System
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Moon orbits third largest dwarf planet in our solar system - Moon Orbits Third Largest Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Astronomers have uncovered a moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet, 2007 OR10, in the frigid ...