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The costs on the first night alone—before any real treatment—were astronomical.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025 -
Life in Egypt would be safer, but border authorities were charging astronomical sums for visas.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA’s Voyager 1, the world’s most distant spacecraft at more than 15 billion miles in interstellar space.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2025
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Using radio observations of ammonia, a molecule abundant in interstellar space and familiar on Earth as a common cleaning agent, astronomers mapped the rotating disk of gas and dust swirling around HW2.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
16 May 2025
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“Astrophysical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/astrophysical. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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