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White Dwarf Stars Found With Carbon Atmospheres Recently, nine white dwarf stars were found with atmospheres primarily composed of carbon, w...

Damaged Genesis Yields Data on Solar Wind The goal of NASA's Genesis mission was to collect samples of the solar wind and return them to...

WEEKLY UPDATE Astronomer Questions Significance of COBE Images Most astronomers say the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite images s...

Comet 17P/Holmes Still Amazing Us Now that a cold front has given central Florida back its nighttime sky, at least for a few evenings, this ...

Dwarf Galaxies Also Have Dark Matter U.S. astronomers have discovered that stars in dwarf spheroidal galaxies behave in a way that suggests ...