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Category: 7. Science
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The Night Sky This Week
This weeks has a new moon in the middle, meaning views of a crescent moon either side.
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Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere)….
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Chinese observatory links black hole jets to cosmic ray acceleration, unveils mystery of ‘knee’ structure
What mechanism accelerates cosmic rays to the 3 peta-electron-volt (PeV) range — over 1,000 times the energy of the world”s most powerful man-made particle accelerators — causing a sharp decline in the number of…
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Astrophotographer Captures Surreal ‘Fall of Icarus’ Shot of Man Falling Before the Sun
A stunning, otherworldly photograph is leaving people across the internet in awe. Called “The Fall of Icarus,” the viral image captures a skydiver seemingly plunging across the Sun’s blazing surface. The shot was taken by US-based…
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The Leonid meteor shower 2025 peaks soon. Here’s what to know.
If you missed the peaks for the Northern and Southern Taurid meteor showers, you may soon get another chance with the Leonid meteor shower.
The Leonid meteor shower, which is active from Nov. 6 to Nov. 30, will peak from the night of Nov. 16 to…
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SpaceX launches 2 Falcon 9 rockets from Florida
by Allen Cone
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 15, 2025
SpaceX launched two rockets with a total of 58 Starlink Internet satellites about 3 1/2 hours apart overnight Saturday in the private company’s quickest turnaround from Florida’s…Continue Reading
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Astronauts Share Images Of Mars Volcano, Reveal Stunning Details Of Frozen Lava Rivers
The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared stunning images of the foot of Mars’ giant volcano, Olympus Mons, which stands…
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Scientists extract viable RNA from woolly mammoth remains
Scientists successfully extracted viable RNA from a young woolly mammoth named Yuka that died 40,000 years ago in Siberia, which previously was thought impossible, a research team said in a study published on Friday. Photo by Kiyohi Ota/EPA
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A Radical New Kind of Particle Accelerator Could Transform Science : ScienceAlert
A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project.
The way that intense X-rays are currently produced is through a facility called…
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