Atom & Cosmos

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	Astronomy Physics Planetary Science

Top Stories | June 19

News in Brief: American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting
Highlights from the 220th AAAS meeting held June 10-14 in Anchorage, Alaska.
Giant celestial disk hard to explain
A star's oversized debris ring challenges theories of planet formation.
Some newfound planets are something else
A re-evaluation of the Kepler mission’s data suggests one in three hot giant orbs it discovered is actually another kind of object.
At Home in the Universe
Astronomers lay bare the Milky Way’s biggest secrets
Quantum teleportation leaps forward
Two teams report beaming information about particles over long distances, a step toward creating satellite quantum communication networks.

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Two teams report beaming information about particles over long distances, a step toward creating satellite quantum communication networks.

The Andromeda galaxy is destined to slam directly into ours, new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show.

SETI scientist Jill Tarter retires from research to focus on raising funds to continue search for extraterrestrial life.

The director of Center for SETI Research is retiring to focus on finding funds to continue the hunt for extraterrestrial life.

New analyses of Cassini images reveal ice on the pockmarked Saturnian satellite Hyperion.

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Astronomers lay bare the Milky Way’s biggest secrets

Massive eruptions on sunlike stars might not require magnetic interactions from a big, hot, nearby planet.

New observations confirm two leading theories of type 1a supernova production.

Spacecraft observations redraw astronomers’ ideas about the local stellar environment.

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