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Scientists Find Evidence of a Giant 9th Planet
This artistic rendering shows the distant view from Planet Nine back towards the sun. (Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)) Researchers at the California Institute of Technology – Caltech -are reporting that they...
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Moon Born from a Violent Head-On Collision
The extremely similar chemical composition of rocks on the Earth and moon helped scientists determine that a head-on collision, not a glancing blow, took place between Earth and Theia. ((c) William...
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Zika Kills Cells Crucial to Brain Development; Did Volcanoes Cause Mars to Tilt?
In an image released on 1/18/16, a female Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen drawing a blood meal from the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo’s University in Sao...
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Astronomers Spot 80 of the Oldest Galaxies
Artist rendering of Cosmos Redshift 7 said to be one of the oldest and most distant galaxies in the universe (European Southern Observatory/M. Kornmesser) Advancing technology is making it possible for...
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Jupiter’s Northern Lights; Watching Stars Explode & Too Much Sitting Kills
Jupiter’s auroras, in purple, as seen by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. (X-ray: NASA/CXC/UCL/W.Dunn et al, Optical: NASA/STSc) Astronomers Study Jupiter’s ‘Northern Lights’ Earth’s Auroras – Borealis...
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Study: Dinosaurs Roamed Before Saturn’s Moons and Rings Formed
The new paper finds that Saturn’s moon Rhea and all other moons and rings closer to Saturn may be only 100 million years old. Outer satellites (not pictured here), including Saturn’s largest moon...
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A 22W laser used for adaptive optics on the Very Large Telescope in Chile. A suite of similar lasers could be used to alter the shape of a planet’s transit for the purpose of broadcasting or cloaking...
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Learning More About Mysterious Planet 9
Simulated structure of planet candidate 9. (© Esther Linder, Christoph Mordasini, Universität Bern) Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown at the California Institute of Technology generated a lot of...
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20 Years to Alpha Centauri; NASA’s Expandable Habitat; Elements of an Apology
This wide-field view of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. (European Southern Observatory) Proposed...
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Nearby Supernovae Showered Earth and Moon With Radioactive Iron
Artist Animation of Star Explosion (NASA/JPL/Australian National University) Two new studies suggest radioactive bits of a nearby star or stars that exploded into a supernova or supernovae showered...
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Happy 26th Birthday Hubble Space Telescope!
To celebrate the 26th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope a new image of NGC-7635 or the Bubble Nebular was released. (NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)) Sunday, April...
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Dwarf Planet Moon Discovered; Supplements Boost Antidepressants; Kepler Back...
Artist concept of dwarf planet Makemake and its moon MK2 (NASA/ESA) Hubble Spots Moon Circling Distant Dwarf Planet Out in the far reaches of our solar system lies the Kuiper Belt. This region of...
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Scientists Find Traces of Early Earth in Volcanic Rock
One of the two locations on Earth where scientists found chemical signatures of early Earth’s mantle is Baffin Island off the coast of northern Canada. (Don Francis of McGill University) According to...
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Did our Sun Snatch Planet 9 from Another Solar System?
Planet 9 captured by Sun from another star system (Lund University) Is it possible that the new-found theoretical Planet 9 is actually an exoplanet, a planet from another solar system? According to...
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One Third of the World’s Population Unable to See Milky Way
The Milky Way illuminates night sky over Crater Lake, Oregon. (NPS/Jeremy M. White) Among my fondest memories of being a kid back in the 1960’s was taking a week or so of summer vacation to visit...
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Where are Ceres Large Craters?
Scientists with NASA’s Dawn mission were surprised to find that Ceres has no clear signs of truly giant impact basins. This image shows both visible (left) and topographic (right) mapping data from...
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NASA Will Have Cassini Working Hard Right Up to Fiery Finish
This image shows Saturn’s northern hemisphere in 2016. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) As the saying goes all good things must come to an end and the same will go for the Cassini mission to...
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Cosmic Cannon; Mars Dust Storm Forecast; Dione’s Subsurface Ocean
This four-panel graphic illustrates how the binary-star system V Hydrae is launching balls of plasma into space. (NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)) Astronomers Find a Cosmic Cannon Astronomers have...
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Is Planet 9 Causing Our Solar System to Wobble?
This artistic rendering shows the distant view from Planet Nine back towards the sun. The planet is thought to be gaseous, similar to Uranus and Neptune. Hypothetical lightning lights up the night...
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Ants Goof Off Too; Milky Way Steals Stars; Astronomers Spot Exocomets
Ants work outside of their colony (Schristia, Creative Commons via Flickr) Ants Balance Work and Rest to Maintain Colony Ants have a reputation of being dedicated and hardworking creatures. But did you...
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