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Astronomers make leap in search for Earth-like planets – but what they’re looking for is invisible | Science & Tech News
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Astronomers searching for Earth-like planets have discovered one in another solar system that seems to have one of the unique criteria for sustaining life – a magnetic field. You may not often pause to thank Earth’s magnetic field for you being here today, but it’s vital to protecting our planet’s life-sustaining atmosphere. It does that…
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Cosmic explosion may be brightest ever seen, astronomers say | Science & Tech News
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A cosmic explosion that blinded space instruments may be the brightest ever seen, astronomers have said. The blast, which occurred two billion light years from Earth in October, produced a pulse of intense radiation that swept through the solar system, triggering detectors on multiple spacecraft. Scientists said the event was a gamma-ray burst (GRB), known…