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  Terence Connors

  

  Eat Your Heart Out Tatooine, Scientists Discover Planet With Three Stars

  comicbook.com - Nicole Drum

  In Star Wars, the planet Tatooine may have an impressive sunset thanks to its two suns but there's a real planet roughly 1800 light-years from Earth …

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  Terence Connors

  

  Pluto's atmosphere gets its blue haze from icy organic compounds, study suggests

  space.com - Charles Q. Choi

  The haze shrouding Pluto might be made up of ice crystals possessing cyanide hearts, a new study finds. Hazes, which are made of tiny motes of dust, …

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  Terence Connors

  

  This AI can explain how it solves Rubik’s Cube—and that’s a big deal

  Fast Company - By Forest Agostinelli

  Understanding how algorithms solve simple problems can help us tackle some of humanity’s biggest challenges. The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has created computers that can drive cars, synthesize chemical compounds, fold proteins, and detect high-energy particles at a superhuman …

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  Terence Connors

  

  'Super Earth' discovered near one of our galaxy's oldest stars

  phys.org - Jules Bernstein

  A hot, rocky "super Earth," near one of the oldest stars in the galaxy has taken a team of planet-hunting scientists by surprise. The planet is about …

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  Terence Connors

  

  Some Black Holes May Actually Be Secret Wormholes

  Popular Mechanics - Caroline Delbert

  Some scientists believe black holes aren’t all the same—and that some are really wormholes. To find out, we’ll need a way to tell the difference with certainty. In a new paper, Russian scientists posit that the right blast of gamma radiation could reveal wormholes in black hole disguise. How would a …

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  Terence Connors

  

  Scientists May Have Detected a Signal That Could Change Astronomy Forever

  VICE - Becky Ferreira

  Scientists think they may have spied the universe's "gravitational wave background" after more than a decade of searching. In 2015, scientists snagged the first detection of a gravitational wave, a ripple in the fabric of spacetime. The achievement marked the beginning of an entirely new field of …