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Mercury and Pluto features were among the places the public
helped name in the past year -- where else can we (officially) leave our
cosmic mark?
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Astronomers have discovered the smallest supermassive black
hole lurking in the center of a dwarf galaxy around 340 million
light-years away. Small it may be, but it could help to unlock some
pretty hefty black hole mysteries.
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On July 29, with ESA's Rosetta spacecraft in orbital tow, the
2.5-mile-long Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko fired its brightest jet
yet since Rosetta's arrival just over a full year ago.
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Through extremely high precision measurements of a pulsar
orbiting a white dwarf star, astronomers have found that the
gravitational constant, which dictates the force of gravity, is
'reassuringly constant' throughout the universe.
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