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The Physics and Astronomy Department has a machine shop to fabricate custom fixtures for experiments across campus.

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A team of international astronomers has uncovered what may be a gas giant planet forming around a distant young star. Using ...

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Astronomers have smashed the record for the largest-known cloud of energetic particles discovered surrounding a galactic ...

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A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 26 of SpaceX 's Starlink broadband satellites lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space ...