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2.9KFutureUnusual Asteroid Orbits The Sun In Just 151 Days
Astronomers have recently spotted an asteroid, cataloged as “2019 LF6”, who has set the record for the shortest year among those of...
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4.4KFutureAstronomers Trace New Radio Signal To A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Last week, astronomers finally recorded a success in pinpointing the source of a non-repeating radio burst signal, something that astronomers from all...
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3.8KFutureAstronomers Find The Location Of Mysterious Radio Burst
Space is quiet but the long explanation would be that technically, that’s not entirely true. Sound does exist in space in the...
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3.2KFutureNASA Spacecraft Snaps New Bennu Asteroid Picture, Finds More Interesting Data
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security Regolith Explorer) spacecraft has left Earth on September 2016 for a rendez-vous with asteroid...
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4.0KFutureSpaceX’ Starlink Causes Worry For Astronomers
SpaceX launched its first fleet of satellites for the Starlink chain on May 23rd. That first batch counted only 60 of what...
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4.3KMiscSpaceX Launches Starlink ‘Satellite Train’ – Here’s How You Can See It
SpaceX has successfully launched its first batch of 60 internet-beaming satellites into space on May 23rd. The Falcon 9 rocket that delivered...
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5.2KFutureNASA’s TESS Discovers 3 Super-Earths
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite planet spotter, affectionately known as TESS, has been out and about in space for less than a...
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8.1KSmart LifeLong-distance Photography? This Camera Can Photograph Subjects As Far As 28 Miles Away
I am not a photographer myself, but, knowing a few who actually have an idea of what they are doing when holding...
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4.1KFutureHubble Image Reminds Us Of How Small We Are But Also How Far We’ve Come
In case you were feeling a bit arrogant about your place in the world today, here’s something to bring things back into...
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4.7KFutureSpaceX Chosen by NASA To Slam A Spacecraft into An Asteroid
NASA has recently announced that SpaceX has won a contract for the space agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. The mission,...
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3.5KFutureAstronomers Capture the First Image of a Black Hole
Astronomers have managed to capture the image of a black hole for the very first time. The black hole in question is...
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16.9KFutureChinese Satellite Captures Photograph of The Earth From Behind The Moon
Just last month, China landed its Chang’e 4 lunar probe on the far side of the Moon, the ‘dark side’ that never...
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3.0KFutureMysterious Planet Nine Might Prove To Be Something Else Altogether
You’d think that with all the telescopes we have available, all the satellites and all the research, we’d have a pretty solid...
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1.8KFutureNASA’s Kepler Sings Its Swansong With Last Set Of Commands
This is it, guys: after having run out of fuel last month, NASA’s Earth Kepler team has beamed the final commands to...
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2.5KFutureSuspected Exomoon Spotted 8,000 Light-Years Away
According to NASA, the Kepler and Hubble space telescopes have found evidence of a satellite that is orbiting exoplanet Kepler-1625b. Exoplanets are...
