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The unusually high 26Al/27Al abundance ratio of the solar system at formation can be explained if if the solar system was formed by a triggered star formation at the edge of a Wolf–Rayet bubble.
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The first data release from SDSS-IV, DR13, makes publicly available the first 1390 spatially resolved integral field unit observations of nearby galaxies from MaNGA, as well as presenting data from eBOSS and APOGEE.
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Deep, wide-field Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam photometry of two recently discovered satellites of the Milky Way, Columba I and Triangulum II, suggest both have exclusively old and metal-poor stellar populations.
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JWST should be able to detect ~10–20 occultations per year of TRAPPIST-1 b and c, which occur as one planet blocks the thermal- and reflected-light signals of the other as it passes in front.
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New Horizons’ observations of Pluto’s largest two moons suggest that Nix and Hydra scatter visible light preferentially in the forward direction, unlike most icy satellites in the outer solar system.
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A coronal mass ejection may have been the cause of the observed continuous X-ray absorption of the 1997 August 30 superflare on the eclipsing binary Algol (known as the Demon Star).