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Daniel Martin Diaz Encodes Cosmic Questions into Geometric Paintings and Prints.

The “music” of starquakes—enormous vibrations caused by bursting bubbles of gas that ripple throughout the bodies of many stars—can reveal far more information about the stars’ histories and inner workings than scientists thought.

While it was getting ready to power down its Gaia spacecraft, the European Space Agency encountered some unusual resistance.

The spacecraft, which has been creating a highly detailed three-dimensional map of more than a billion stars throughout the Milky Way and beyond, proved surprisingly difficult to kill.

“Switching off a spacecraft at the end of its mission sounds like a simple enough job,” said Gaia spacecraft operator Tiago Nogueira in an ESA statement. “But spacecraft really don’t want to be switched off.”

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