All posts tagged "astronomy"
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1.2KFutureA Comet That Last Showed Up 50,000 Years Ago Will Soon Be Visible to the Naked Eye
Love being surprised by the night sky? Then you should pay attention to this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity – or once every 50,000 years...
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19.5KMiscStar Spotting Like a Pro: Starsense Explorer Telescope Bring Observatory Tech to Your Phone
Who hasn’t thought at least once about buying a telescope to scan the night sky? However, most who did this quickly abandoned...
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5.0KMiscScientists Plan To Video Capture A Feasting Black Hole
According to the Business Insider, scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) confirmed their plans to capture real-time video footage of the...
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9.7KMiscWater Vapors Detected On Exoplanet 110 Light-Years Away From Earth
Astronomers have been working towards finding and probing planets that feature liquid water and have potential for life ever since the first...
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9.2KFutureRadio Burst Signals From Space Have Intensified Recently
Astronomers have been listening in to signals coming from deep space ever since 2007 – these signals are known as Fast Radio...
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46.6KFutureAmateur Astronomer Captures Jupiter Meteor Impact on Video
Jupiter has always delivered mesmerizing images to the astronomers and, during the Perseid meteor night, which took place on August 7th, it...
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8.9KFutureHubble Telescope Sees An Unusual Black Hole
Black holes have baffled astronomers for a very long time. They are as scary as they are intriguing and now, NASA’s Hubble...
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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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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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4.4KFutureIf You Ever Wanted To Name A Planet Here’s Your Chance
Back in 2007, a team of astronomers discovered a minor trans-Neptunian planet which, in the years to follow, became the largest known...
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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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2.8KMiscRussian Startup Wants To Put Ads in Earth’s Low Orbit
It might sound like an idea that landed straight out of a Science Fiction movie but Russian startup StartRocket wants to put...
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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...
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4.5KVehiclesESA Teams Up With Nissan To Build An Off-Road Observatory
In a surprising joint project, the European Space Agency joined forces with Nissan and developed an off-road mobile observatory. The concept, dubbed...
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9.5KFutureScientists Finally Discovered What The Oldest Computer in The World Was Good At
Discovered a century ago, in Greece, this 2,000-year-old “computer” has posed a series of burning questions for scientists. What was it used for?...
