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The most powerful explosion ever observed could have melted lead from 110 light-years away.
GRB 080916C, a gamma-ray burst detected in 2008, released more energy in a few seconds than our Sun will emit in its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. If this burst had occurred within our galaxy, it could have triggered a mass extinction event on Earth, even from thousands of light-years away.
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The entire Milky Way smells like rum and tastes like raspberries.
Large clouds of ethyl formate, a chemical that gives raspberries their flavor and rum its smell, have been...
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Some stars are cool enough to touch.
Brown dwarfs, failed stars that never got massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion, can have surface temperatures as...
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There’s a planet made largely of diamonds.
55 Cancri e, a super-Earth about 40 light-years away, is likely made largely of carbon under such extreme...