CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly.
The National Science Foundation’s NoirLab released the picture Wednesday.
Snapped last month by the Gemini South…
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Primary Russian launch pad damaged during rocket liftoff
The Russian Soyuz-2.1a booster rocket carrying the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft blasts off from the Russia-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on Thursday, which damaged the launch site. Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA
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Scientists Investigate the Biological Effects of Spaceflight Using Worms
There is a growing movement worldwide to establish a human presence in orbit, on the Moon, and beyond. This presents many challenges, ranging from the technological and logistical to the biological and medical. After all, if people are…
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NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX probe has captured striking images of Earth and the Moon
NASA has conducted various missions to study many structures in our universe. Whether black holes, galaxies, or exoplanets, several probes are currently traveling through space to conduct research. But recently, the OSIRIS-APEX probe took…
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Development and cross-amplification of novel SSR markers for population genetic analysis of Kitti’s hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) in Thailand
Hill, J. E. A. & New Family Genus and species of Bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Thailand. Bull. Br. Museum (Natural History). 27, 303–336 (1974).
Ramos Pereira, M. J. et al. Status of the…
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New tests show Jordan lead codices are not all modern fakes
For more than a decade, a set of tiny lead books from Jordan has sat in a strange place between wonder and doubt. Some people claimed they might come from the earliest days of Christianity. Many scholars called them outright fakes. Now, after…
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