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In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and use just your eyes to make a giant figure ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in that galaxy is rotating.

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The national traveling exhibition explores space and astronomy, covering topics such as the search for habitable worlds.

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