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    Japan’s Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Creeps Up on the Ryugu Asteroid

    After a journey that started in 2014, the probe will reach the space rock on Wednesday to begin studying it for clues to the solar system’s origins.

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    Black Hole Drags Star to Dusty Death

    Astronomers thought they saw an exploding star, but in fact it was a star having its guts ripped out by a black hole.