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Astronomers announced Wednesday that a decades-long mystery surrounding the first known brown dwarf — a “failed star” called Gliese 229B — has finally been solved. Brown dwarfs are dim, celestial ...

Astronomers announced Wednesday that a decades-long mystery surrounding the first known brown dwarf — a “failed star” called Gliese 229B — has finally been solved. Brown dwarfs are dim ...

The stunning Orionid meteor shower is made up of dust and debris left in the wake of Halley's Comet. As the comet travels ...

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