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A deep spectrum of a mysterious "little red dot" reveals a supermassive black hole cocooned in gas so dense it's opaque — but glowing in the infrared.

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A rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert could be a fragment of a Moon-size body that met a violent end in the earliest days of the solar system.

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The three planets in the western twilight are pulling away from each other now. On Wednesday, the Moon will occult Venus in daylight.

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Australia's Molonglo Observatory was saved from retirement; now, it holds the promise of future radio observations.

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Meet Callisto, the heavily cratered moon that's the most distant of the Galilean satellites from Jupiter.

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