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On record 2025 as one of the most amazing years in contemporary astronomy, providing findings that would turn our collective ...

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Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on the Big Island’s Maunakea discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars — two rare companions that deepen our ...

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