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Statement on National Academies sexual harassment study

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How do you weigh a galaxy? Especially the one you're in?

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New model explains what we see when a massive black hole devours a star

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A new map for a birthplace of stars

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Dozens of binaries from Milky Way's globular clusters could be detectable by LISA

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Milky Way's supermassive black hole may have 'unseen' siblings

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What do Uranus' cloud tops have in common with rotten eggs?

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Face recognition for galaxies: Artificial intelligence brings new tools to astronomy

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NSF announces 2018 winners for Generation Nano: Superheroes Inspired by Science

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Dark matter is a no show in ghostly galaxy

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Dark matter is a no show in ghostly galaxy

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First look at Jupiter's poles show strange geometric arrays of storms

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Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe

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Dusting for fingerprints of the first stars in the universe

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Astronomers detect earliest evidence yet of hydrogen in the universe

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Study reveals Milky Way stars being evicted by invading galaxies

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Statement on Award of Cooperative Agreement for Management and Operations of Arecibo Observatory

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Astronomers discover S0-2 star is single and ready for big Einstein test

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Astronomers reveal secrets of most distant supernova ever detected

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New chapter begins for Kitt Peak Telescope

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Astronomers produce first detailed images of surface of giant star

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Dark Energy Survey reveals stellar streams adding stars to the Milky Way

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Fast radio bursts 'twists and shouts' help scientists determine source of cosmic blasts

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Supermassive black holes control star formation in large galaxies

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Radio observations point to likely explanation for neutron-star merger phenomena

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A new approach for detecting planets in the Alpha Centauri system

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A better way to weigh millions of solitary stars

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Black holes' magnetism surprisingly wimpy

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Massive primordial galaxies found in ‘halo’ of dark matter

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