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Cornell postdoc detects possible exoplanet radio emission
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Can life survive a star’s death? Webb telescope will explore
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A&S dean Ray Jayawardhana awarded Carl Sagan Medal
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Astronomers develop ‘decoder’ to gauge exoplanet climate
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Long-dead stars can yield clues to life in the cosmos
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Researchers use ‘hot Jupiter’ data to mine exoplanet chemistry
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Astronomers find possible hints of gravitational waves
An international team of astronomers – including 17 Cornellians – report they have found the first faint, low-frequency whispers that may be gravitational waves from gigantic, colliding black holes in distant galaxies.
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