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New Search to Begin for Radio-Emitting Stars & Galaxies
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a multinational science project to build the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope that hopes to answer some of the most enduring mysteries of the Universe, including dark energy, general relativity in extreme…
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A Globular Cluster ‘Cosmopolis’ Found Orbiting the Milky Way (Today’s Most Popular)
This stunning new image of Messier 107 — one of 150 globular clusters that orbit the Milky Way –was captured by the Wide Field Imager on the 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. Messier 107, also known…
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NASA Satellite Zooms in on Wadi Rum -Earth’s “Valley of the Moon”
On April 3, 2011, NASA released this image of Jordan’s eeire Valley of the Moon taken from the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite, which captured this natural-color image on July 27, 2001. Mountains of granite…
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Could Extreme Life Thrive on Jupiter’s Io? The Volcanic Epicenter of the Solar System
Io, the innermost of Jupiter’s large satellites and the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with plumes of matter rising up to 186 miles (300 km) above the surface is considered a prime candidate as a hotspot for…
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Antarctica Scientists Discover Space Mineral Never Before Observed in Nature
A research team that included experts from the US, Japan and South Korea, have discovered a new mineral, called “Wassonite”, buried in a meteorite discovered in Antarctica in 1969. The meteorite, which may have broken off an asteroid orbiting between…
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Increase in Population Density Triggered Rapid Growth of Human Brain Over Past 2 Million Years (A ‘Galaxy’ Classic)
For the past 2 million years, the size of the human brain has tripled, growing much faster than other mammals. Examining the reasons for human brain expansion, University of Missouri researchers studied three common hypotheses for brain growth: climate change,…
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Mystery of Jupiter and Saturn Rings: Sleuths Tie Ring Ripples to Massive Comet Impacts
Scientists working with new data from NASA’s Cassini, Galileo and New Horizons missions have traced telltale ripples in the rings of Saturn and Jupiter back to collisions with Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragments (below) dating back more than 10 years ago. The…
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Image of the Day: White Dwarf Nebula — Could White Dwarfs Be Fertile Ground for Finding Other Earths?
Looking like an image out of Will Wright’s video game, Spore, M 27, or NGC 6853 is a planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1,360 light years. Its central star, a white dwarf, is larger…
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