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Looking for Signs of Life on Distant Planets Just Got Easier
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A recent study from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has
produced a new 3-D model for determining exoplanet habitability.
The post Looki...
40 minutes ago
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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Spots a Lunar Transit
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[image: NASA's SDO Views a Lunar Transit]
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a new image of a lunar transit
when the Moon crossed the spacecraft’...
1 hour ago
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Ancient Mitochondrial DNA Sheds Light on Evolutionary History of Saber-Toothed Cats
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An international team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing
methods to retrieve and analyze mitochondrial genome data from two lineages
of saber-...
3 hours ago
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2017 Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend: What to Expect
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Over the next several days, you may get a chance to glimpse a "shooting
star" in the predawn hours, as the Orionid meteor shower will be at its
peak.
5 hours ago
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Scientist sees evidence of planet formation in narrow rings of other solar systems
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Narrow dense rings of comets are coming together to form planets on the
outskirts of at least three distant solar systems, astronomers have found
in data f...
5 hours ago
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Saturn’s rings taken seven siblings to stay in place
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*Several moons keep the A ring from falling apart. *
9 hours ago
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Explosive Mystery
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Oct 20, 2017 Plasma phenomena are similar no matter how big or how small.
Editor’s Note: Due to Northern California wildfires, the Picture of the Day
wil...
13 hours ago
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These headsets are made for walking over Mars
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 20, 2017
When NASA scientists want to follow the path of the Curiosity rover on
Mars, they can don a mixed-reality headset and virtual...
17 hours ago
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NGC 7000 IC 5070
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The post NGC 7000 IC 5070 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
21 hours ago
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Science Release: Hubble observes source of gravitational waves for the first time
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[image: Hubble observes first kilonova]The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
has observed for the first time the source of a gravitational wave, created
by t...
4 days ago
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Astronomers See Light Show Associated With Gravitational Waves
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Marking the beginning of a new era in astrophysics, scientists have
detected gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation, or light, from
the same e...
4 days ago
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Gravitational waves without general relativity
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Robert C. Hilborn This tutorial leads the reader through the details of
calculating the properties of gravitational waves from orbiting binaries,
such as t...
6 days ago
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Astronomers discover extremely hot, pitch-black exoplanet
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Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a most
unusual exoplanet that reflects 94% of the visible light given off by its
host star,...
4 weeks ago
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Idle
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I’m going to leave this blog idle again. If you want to keep up with what
I’m doing, you can find me here: http://www.acollectionofbits.co.uk/
8 months ago
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Catch a Star 2016 Contest Winners Announced
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The winners of this year’s Catch a Star Contest have been announced. The
top three prizes were awarded to: The Lost Planet, by Andrea Moral Suárez,
Natalia...
9 months ago
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Super Volcano! History's Great Secret: The Global Catastrophe of 535 AD
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Super Volcano!
*History's Great Secret: The Global Catastrophe of 535 AD*
[image:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Super-volcano_Tie...
9 months ago
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Astronomers observe star reborn in a flash
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An international team of astronomers using Hubble have been able to study
stellar evolution in real time. Over a period of 30 years dramatic
increases in...
1 year ago
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Huge Tsunamis May Have Ravaged Ancient Mars
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When Mars was a wet world, did its oceans experience powerful tsunamis
spawned by meteorite impacts?
1 year ago
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Giant Bow Shock in Space
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The beautiful image above shows a giant bow shock wave in space around a
young star. The name of the star is LL Ori and it is located in one of our
favorit...
3 years ago
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