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Celebrate the New Year with the “Champagne Cluster,” a galaxy cluster seen in this new image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes. Astronomers discovered this galaxy cluster ...

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Sigourney Weaver has called for the release of a director's cut of the 1999 science-fiction comedy classic Galaxy Quest, after revealing that a lot of scenes were cut very shortly before its release.

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