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A 9-minute journey inside a black hole

Ever wonder what would happen if we got sucked into a black hole? Turns out we could live in it — if it was big enough.

bigthink.com

Ask Ethan: Why don't neutron stars decay?

Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus, but free neutrons decay away in mere minutes. So how are neutron stars stable?

bigthink.com

James Webb Space Telescope finds promising life chemistry on a strange world

Scientists have detected the somewhat smelly chemical dimethyl sulfide on a planet called K2-18 b, which is 120 light-years from Earth.

bigthink.com

How to understand all the talk about a "crisis in cosmology"

Cosmology is unlike other sciences. When our view of the Universe changes, so does our understanding of philosophy and science itself.

bigthink.com

 

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Winning photos for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year are revealed

Spectacular images of our galaxies and solar system have now been revealed as this year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year was announced by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

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'Super Earth' planet could have right conditions to support alien life

K2-18 b, which is more than eight times the size of Earth and 120 light-years away from us, sits within the habitable zone of its cool dwarf star in the Leo constellation.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Video: Hubble telescope captures stunning spiraling star formation | Daily Mail Online

Hubble telescope captures stunning spiraling star formation in a stellar nursery that's 200,000 light-years from Earth - giving a peak into the early universe.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Video: Animation explains NASA 's asteroid-deflecting mission | Daily Mail Online

This animation shows how NASA 's asteroid-deflecting mission will work. The Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is now encapsulated in the SpaceX payload fairings and will me put in place later this year.

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Looking for Art in the James Webb Telescope

Artists are finding inspiration in the newest images of old and ancient stars.

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Major UK methane leak is spotted from SPACE

Imagery from satellite company GHGSat shows plumes of the greenhouse gas coming from a pipeline just north of the Gloucestershire town.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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Inside NASA's 'asteroid autumn'

They include one rocket launch, a distant fly-by between Jupiter and Mars, and the recovery of ancient space rocks in the Utah desert that could contain the ingredients for life.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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NASA's James Webb snaps a stunning photo of a rainbow 'lightsaber'

Herbig-Haro 211 - which is located around 1,000 light-years from Earth in the Perseus constellation - is not actually visible in the image captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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What Would Signal Life on Another Planet?

Astronomers have long debated what kind of chemistry might serve as a bona fide alien biosignature

www.smithsonianmag.com

NASA Report Finds No Evidence of Extraterrestrial Origin for UFO Sightings

However, no explanation can be ruled out, per the agency, which also appointed its first director of research into the subject

www.smithsonianmag.com

Could Humans Survive Unprotected Outside of Earth's Atmosphere for Even Ten Seconds?

You’ve got questions. We’ve got experts

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

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In a Monster Star’s Light, a Hint of Darkness | Quanta Magazine

Astronomers are scouring the cosmos for fingerprints of the invisible — tiny clumps of pure dark matter that might solve a long-standing cosmic mystery.

www.quantamagazine.org

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to Bring Asteroid Pieces Back to Earth

The OSIRIS-REx probe is carrying rock samples from the asteroid Bennu, millions of miles away. If it works, it will be only the third such retrieval in history.

www.wired.com

 

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Meet the Woman Launching the UAE Into the Asteroid Belt

She helped lead a young space agency to Mars. Now she has her sights set further into the galaxy.

www.thedailybeast.com

NASA’s UFO Report Shows They’re Serious About Finding Aliens

“We want to shift the conversation about UAPs from sensationalism to science.”

www.thedailybeast.com

 

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The Eight Best Hidden Impact Craters on Earth - JSTOR Daily

Many impact craters on Earth have been erased thanks to wind, water, and plate tectonics. But scientists have clever ways to find them.

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Natural Science Archives - JSTOR Daily

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Could You Stand on the Surface of Jupiter? Exploring the Enigmatic Outer Planets - JSTOR Daily

The outer planets’ clouds hide the weirdness within.

daily.jstor.org

How Plate Tectonics Shook Life into Existence - JSTOR Daily

The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth’s crust.

daily.jstor.org

We Might Have Accidentally Killed the Only Life We Ever Found on Mars Nearly 50 Years Ago - JSTOR Daily

In one experiment, the Viking landers added water to Martian soil samples. That might have been a very bad idea.

daily.jstor.org

Solved: Astronomers Identify Origin of Mysterious Flares in Galaxy OJ 287 - JSTOR Daily

In a distant galaxy, a cosmic dance between two supermassive black holes emits periodic flashes of light.

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Deimos: A Chip Off the Old Martian Block? - JSTOR Daily

A new space probe suggests that the moonlet Deimos isn’t a captured asteroid after all.

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NASA’s Deepest 3D Fly-through of the Universe - JSTOR Daily

From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we're seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.

daily.jstor.org

“Ghostly” Neutrinos Help Us See Our Milky Way as Never Before - JSTOR Daily

As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery...consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

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The Loudest Sound Ever Blew Out People's Eardrums From 40 Miles Away

If only they'd had noise-canceling headphones back in 1883.

www.iflscience.com

Hunga Tonga Volcanic Eruption Confirmed as Biggest Bang since Krakatoa

Eruption in 2022 was largest explosion ever recorded in Earth's atmosphere

www.labmanager.com

The 12 biggest volcanic eruptions in recorded history

From Krakatoa to the Tonga blast, here are some of the biggest volcanic eruptions in recorded history.

www.livescience.com

 

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Watch NASA unveil first sample from asteroid Bennu

NASA is hosting a livestream today from Texas to show images and data of the samples collected from asteroid Bennu, which the agency fears could impact Earth in 2182.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Incredible image reveals the moment two icy exoplanets COLLIDED

The astonishing discovery, revealed in a study led by Leiden University in the Netherlands, marked the first time astronomers have captured the afterglow of a planetary collision in outer space.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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Toyota unveils Baby Lunar Cruiser that astronauts could drive on MOON

The Japanese carmaker's design is just a concept but the electric SUV offers a vision of what the future could look like - and it's quite the upgrade from the moon buggies made famous in the 1970s.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Interactive map will help YOU see October's ring of fire solar eclipse

Stargazers in the US, Mexico and parts of South America will be treated to the dazzling spectacle of a 'ring of fire' solar eclipse on October 14.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/11/world/osiris-rex-bennu-asteroid-sample-reveal-scn

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2023 Annular Eclipse - NASA Science

On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse will cross North, Central, and South America. Visible in parts of the United States, Mexico, and many countries in South and Central America, millions of people in the Western Hemisphere can experience this eclipse. During an annular eclipse, it is...

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Future Eclipses - NASA Science

Get Ready for These Upcoming Eclipses in the United States! More Eclipses The date listed for each eclipse is the local date where the eclipse occurs.

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How old is the universe exactly? A new theory suggests that it's been around for twice as long as believed

A new hypothesis suggests that the universe may be twice as old as we had believed. Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope provide new information on the rate of the universe’s expansion.

theconversation.com

This solar cycle, the sun's activity is more powerful and surprising than predicted

We’re currently a few years into the 25th studied solar cycle. An 11-year period of sun activity, this solar cycle is more active than previously expected.

theconversation.com

Canada's participation in the world's largest radio telescope means new opportunities in research and innovation

Canada’s partnership in the world’s largest radio telescope, located in South Africa and Australia, creates new opportunities for research, but the benefits go beyond astronomy.

theconversation.com

Gravitational distortion of time helps tell modified gravity apart from a dark force

The gravitational field can affect space and time: the stronger gravity is, the slower time moves. This prediction of General Relativity can be used to reveal hidden forces acting on dark matter.

theconversation.com

 

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How to watch the Orionid meteor shower as peak due on Saturday

The streaks of light from the debris of Halley's comet will be at their peak on Saturday.

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NASA's interstellar Voyager probes get software updates beamed from 12 billion miles away

"This far into the mission, the engineering team is being faced with a lot of challenges for which we just don’t have a playbook."

www.space.com

Ancient Voyager Probes Plead for Death, NASA Says "No"

NASA's two Voyager spacecraft have been through a lot. But NASA isn't giving up and is still actively uplinking software patches.

futurism.com

 

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Largest-ever computer simulation of the universe escalates cosmology dilemma

"I am at a loss."

www.space.com

 

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How a massive solar storm could fry our entire grid

Depending on your mood, it sounds either terrifying, or like a sweet release from modernity. But solar storms hit the Earth all the time, and it’s only a matter of time until a truly gigantic one fries us—it’s happened before, and will again. We’re more reliant on electricity and connectivity...

thebigstorypodcast.ca

 

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The Mystery of Cosmic Radio Bursts Gets Bright New Clues

New research from two teams shows that these fleeting blips can be faster and brighter, and come from much further away, than previously thought.

www.wired.com

Things Are Looking Up for Asteroid Mining

Asteroids are rich with the metals used in clean energy technologies. As demand soars, advocates argue that mining them in space might be better than mining them on Earth.

www.wired.com

NASA’s Psyche Mission Is Off to Test a Space Laser (for Communications)

The Psyche probe is heading to its namesake metal-rich asteroid. Along the way, it will demonstrate a near-infrared laser system to send high-rate data hundreds of millions of miles home.

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This First Peek Inside NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Capsule Is a Glimpse Back in Time

Scientists finally began opening the rock sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx captured a treasure trove of material from the solar system’s earliest days.

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How Mars Lost Its Magnetic Field—and Then Its Oceans - JSTOR Daily

Chemical changes inside Mars's core caused it to lose its magnetic field. This, in turn, caused it to lose its oceans. But how?

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To Find a New World, Watch How a Planet Dances with Its Star - JSTOR Daily

Finding a tiny planet around bright stars dozens or hundreds of light-years from Earth is extremely difficult.

daily.jstor.org

How Stars Die - JSTOR Daily

Nothing in this Universe is eternal—not even the stars.

daily.jstor.org

The Eight Best Hidden Impact Craters on Earth - JSTOR Daily

Many impact craters on Earth have been erased thanks to wind, water, and plate tectonics. But scientists have clever ways to find them.

daily.jstor.org

 

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27 years ago, Hubble took one of the most iconic space images ever

A guide to the stunning Pillars of Creation and why one space telescope veteran stands by the scene’s remarkability.

www.inverse.com

Behold the Grand Arms of This Gorgeous Galaxy in a New Hubble Image

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the grand spiral arms of a southern-sky galaxy.

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NASA captures 'canyon of fire' on sun twice the size of the US

The plasma ravine was around double the size of the entire United States and 50 times longer than the largest-known crater in our solar system, the Planet's Valles Marineri on Mars.

www.dailymail.co.uk

NASA probe breaks own record to remain fastest man-made object ever

NASA's Parker Solar Probe clocked 394,736 mph, nearly twice as fast as a bolt of lightning. The craft coasted just 4.51million miles above the sun's 9,980F surface

www.dailymail.co.uk

Scientists sound alarms on TWO supervolcanoes showing signs of life

More than 300,000 people in an area of Italy could soon be evacuated if the nearby supervolcano erupts. The Campo Flegrei, has had more than 2,500 earthquakes in the past three months.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Scientists uncover the 'world's oldest' pyramid Gunung Padang

Carbon-dating of the Gunung Padang pyramid reveals it's over 16,000 years old. The pyramid was found under a hill of lava in Indonesia, on the island of West Java

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Over the past six years, governments proposed launching over one million satellites, but where will they all go?

Countries have submitted applications for hundreds of thousands of new satellites to be launched. The scale poses challenges for overcrowding orbit, with environmental and safety challenges.

theconversation.com

 

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Another SpaceX Starship blew up

The explosive finale did not come as a surprise to the company and the mission passed some major milestones.

www.popsci.com

NASA's Psyche wins first deep space laser relay

The asteroid-bound spacecraft pulled off a ‘first light’ experiment only a few weeks into its 3.5 year journey.

www.popsci.com

Watch NASA’s supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 lunar landing

Approximating the lander's effects on the moon’s surface are critical to planning a safe journey for Artemis astronauts.

www.popsci.com

JWST spots two of the most distant galaxies astronomers have ever seen

The data on UNCOVER z-13 and UNCOVER z-12 helps support the Big Bang theory.

www.popsci.com

 

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This tool bag is floating in space

Thankfully, it only contained tethers and tool sockets.

www.popsci.com

‘Christmas tree’ galaxy shines in new image from Hubble and JWST

The colorful galaxy clusters are about 4.3 billion light-years away.

www.popsci.com

Here's what a billion years does to glass on the moon

Constant exposure to radiation from space changes the properties of lunar glass, which some scientists think we can exploit.

www.popsci.com

How the most distant object ever made by humans is spending its dying days

Some 40 years after it left Earth, Voyager 1 is still surprising scientists with the data it transmits home. But its days are numbered.

www.popsci.com

If that asteroid had been 30 seconds late, dinosaurs might rule the world and humans probably wouldn’t exist

Location and timing is everything when it comes to the theory of how dinosaurs went extinct because an asteroid hit Earth.

www.popsci.com

 

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16 Takeaways From the Explosive Second Test of SpaceX’s Starship Megarocket

The rocket blasted off on Saturday, with both stages exploding several minutes after liftoff.

gizmodo.com

7 Space Concepts That Were Too Wild for NASA

The space agency has toyed with big ideas over the years, but some things are even too NASA for NASA.

gizmodo.com

NASA probe sends laser message to Earth from 10 million miles

The Deep Space Optical Communications tool on the Psyche probe achieved successful data transmission to and from Earth from an unprecedented distance.

gizmodo.com

NASA recreates apollo 12 landing to analyze future hazards

The space agency is investigating the impact of engine plumes on lunar dust and rocks in preparation for future Moon landings.

gizmodo.com

 

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Here’s Exactly How Aliens Could Use Black Holes to Generate Energy

Scientists confirm a wild 50-year-old theory.

getpocket.com

 

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What was it like when the Universe was at its hottest?

When the hot Big Bang first occurred, the Universe reached a maximum temperature never recreated since. What was it like back then?

bigthink.com

Does science tell the truth?

It is impossible for science to arrive at ultimate truths, but functional truths are good enough.

bigthink.com

 

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Why haven’t we found aliens? A physicist shares the most popular theories

There are a few theories as to why we’ve never found other intelligent life in our universe. Physicist Brian Cox walks us through them.

bigthink.com

 

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'Once in a lifetime experience': Australian woman captures meteor while filming bushfire

An Australian woman got lucky when she was recording video of a bushfire near Perth, catching on camera a meteor tearing through the sky on Wednesday.

www.ctvnews.ca