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NASA's tally of planets outside our solar system reaches 6,000

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

We've officially found 6,000 exoplanets, NASA says: 'We're entering the next great chapter of exploration'

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...
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The Universe’s Largest Structure Is Even Bigger Than We Expected

If you thought the cosmic web was tangled enough, think again. A team of astrophysicists recently used gamma-ray bursts—those spectacular, enigmatic explosions of energy from the farthest reaches of ...
Space.com

Gamma-ray bursts reveal largest structure in the universe is bigger and closer to Earth than we knew: 'The jury is still out on what it all means.'

"It is larger than the size of most anything to which it might be compared." The universe's largest structure, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, was already a challenge to explain with models ...