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Exiled stars explode far from home
A team of astronomers has used the sharp imaging capability of the Hubble Space Telescope to confirm that three exploding stars found in the empty regions between galaxies in a cluster were in fact lonely supernovae unattached to any galaxy at all. They were probably ripped from their host galaxies eons ago and exploded far from home.
New species of horned dinosaur with 'bizarre' features revealed
About 10 years ago, Peter Hews stumbled across some bones sticking out of a cliff along the Oldman River in southeastern Alberta, Canada. Now, scientists describe in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on June 4 that those bones belonged to a nearly intact skull of a very unusual horned dinosaur--a close relative of the familiar Triceratops that had been unknown to science until now...
Spying on penguins for science
Penguin Watch is a citizen science project that lets people analyze images of penguins taken at locations across Antarctica. The pictures are processed by experts to help inform climate change policy in the region...