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There’s a star that pulses like a heart.
The star V838 Monocerotis expands and contracts in a regular pattern that resembles a beating heart. During its expansions, it becomes one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way. This pulsation is caused by complex interactions between the star's temperature and opacity.
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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...