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Writer Fuel: Earth Once Had a Twin

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The catastrophic collision that forged the moon, and marked one of the most consequential events in Earth’s early history, may have been triggered not by a distant interloper, but by a sibling world that grew up right next door, according to a new study. About 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-size world slammed into the … Read more

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WRITER FUEL: What Happens When A Planet Crashes Into A Dead Star?

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Astronomers have finally seen the remnants of a dead planet as it tumbled onto the surface of a dead star – and in doing so, they confirmed decades of speculation about what happens to solar systems that reach the end of their lives. These explosive observations — which were taken with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory … Read more