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Category: 7. Science
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NASA targets April 1 to launch astronauts trip around the moon
NASA plans to launch four astronauts on a long-awaited trip around the moon as early as April 1, the agency announced Thursday.
Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator of NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, said teams…
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The Sun Was Formed 10,000 Light-Years Closer to the Milky Way Center. It Escaped in a Massive Migration of Thousands of Solar Twins
A mass migration of stellar twins. Stars similar to our Sun form a mass migration from the center of the Milky Way, occurring approximately 4 to 6 billion years ago. Credit: NAOJ. Our Sun is actually a cosmic refugee. Around 4.6…
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Brutal New, 15-Foot Horned Crocodile Once Stalked and Hunted Our Ancient Human Ancestors in Ethiopia
Researchers led by the University of Iowa have described and named a new crocodile species that roamed a region in Africa more than 3 million years ago. Credit: Tyler Stone, University of Iowa. Over three million years ago, the…
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Astronomers Created the Largest 3D Map of the Early Universe Revealing Thousands of Hidden Galaxies
Section of the Line Intensity Map in question. Detected galaxies are marked in white stars. The inset simulates the structure present in this map once it is zoomed in on and background noise is removed from the data. Credit:… Continue Reading
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Innovative microscopic capsules overcome long-standing limitations in single-cell research
Researchers have developed a capsule-based method that makes it possible to analyse the same cell through multiple experimental steps. The technology overcomes a long-standing limitation in cell research and could open new ways to…
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Space-based Sunshade Helps In The Search For A Second Earth – astrobiology.com
- Space-based Sunshade Helps In The Search For A Second Earth astrobiology.com
- Starshade concept could reveal Earth-like exoplanets Universe Today
- Can we observe Earth-like exoplanets from our own planet? Phys.org
- How a hybrid observatory could…
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Tiny NASA Spacecraft Delivers Exoplanet Mission’s First Images
With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA’s Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is ready to begin charting the energetic lives of the galaxy’s most common stars to help answer one of…
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Asteroid strike off Yorkshire sent mega-tsunami racing toward Britain, study confirm
Asteroid strike off Yorkshire sent mega-tsunami racing toward Britain, study confirm After years of debate, scientists have finally proven that a cosmic collision off the Yorkshire coast sent a mega-tsunami taller…
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Deep underground, a telescope may soon detect ghosts of stars that died before Earth existed
Imagine looking up at the night sky and seeing a star suddenly burst into a blaze of light brighter than anything nearby. A flash so bright that it briefly outshines an entire galaxy before fading forever.
This violent fate is rare: fewer…
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