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Results from the ExploreNEOs program suggest that roughly 100 near-Earth asteroids with diameters of 1 km or more are actually dormant short-period comets (i.e., asteroidal objects of cometary origin).
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A clear correlation is found between black-hole mass and host galaxy total stellar mass using 262 broad-line AGN in the nearby universe — useful for cases when the stellar bulge can’t be resolved.
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Emission from SGR J1745-2900, the magnetar at the galactic center, may have been due to the interaction between the shock generated by its X-ray outburst, and the ionized gas cloud G2.
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The properties of the ultra-compact dwarf galaxy M59-UCD3 in the nearby Virgo Cluster suggest that it may represent an extreme population of tidally stripped galaxies.
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Gaps observed in NIR images of protoplanetary disks could be due to dust evolution rather than the presence of planets. Longer-wavelength observations can differentiate between the two mechanisms.
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