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Through the Looking Glass

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The Existential Nature of Astronomy

Astronomer Emily Crump says she gets "freaked out" by trying to peer into the universe. She and her colleagues are studying a star that is 645 light years away from Earth. It's like jumping into a tiny time machine, they say.

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