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The most distant object ever seen is over 13 billion light-years away.
GN-z11, a galaxy observed by the Hubble Space Telescope, is so far away that we see it as it was 13.4 billion years ago, just 400 million years after the Big Bang. Its light has been traveling toward us for 97% of the universe's history.
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Some planets orbit their stars in figure-eight patterns.
In binary star systems, planets can follow complex figure-eight orbital patterns due to the gravitational influence of both...
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Jupiter’s moon Io has lakes of liquid sulfur.
Due to intense tidal heating from Jupiter, Io has lakes of molten sulfur on its surface that can...
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There’s a planet where it snows titanium dioxide.
On Kepler-13Ab, a planet 1,730 light-years from Earth, it snows titanium dioxide - the same compound used in...