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The red planet will soon experience the great relief of
having a half-mile wide lump of icy rock just miss it on a flyby. DNews
Space Producer Dr. Ian O'Neill explains just how lucky our ruddy, rocky
Milky Way buddy will be.
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Using a new mapping technique that takes into account the
motions -- and not just the distances -- of nearby galaxies, astronomers
discovered that the Milky Way is located in the suburb of a massive,
previously unknown super-cluster they named Laniakea.
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If Professor Hubert Farnsworth's 'Smell-O-Scope' actually
existed, astrobiologists would have pointed it at dozens of alien
planets by now.
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