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The Kilonova-Chasing Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer is About to be Watching the Whole Sky
A Real River Valley on Mars, Filled With Virtual Water by @Kevinmgill
Visual artist Kevin M. Gill's latest creation is an image of what Hypanis valles (an ancient river channel) on Mars would have looked like with water flowing through it.
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A new Type of Atomic Clock Uses Entangled Atoms. At Most, it Would be off by 100 Milliseconds Since the Beginning of the Universe
Scientists have made a clock so accurate you wouldn't have to reset it for billions of years.
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Chuck Yeager, the First Man to Break the Sound Barrier has Died. He was 97
On Dec. 7th, 2020, legendary aviator Chuck Yeager died in hospital at the age of 97. He leaves behind a wife, three children, and a mountain of accomplishments!
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Astronomers Have Found Planet 9... in Another Solar System
Weekly Space Hangout: December 16, 2020 – John Powell Tells Us About PongSats and Airship to Orbit
China's Chang'e-5 Probe Drops Off Moon Samples at the Climax of a Historic Mission
Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors Should be Able to see the Primordial Waves From the Big Bang
Underneath all the gravitational waves we see are faint primordial waves. If we can detect them, it could change our understanding of the cosmos.
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Attention Astronauts. Fresh Radishes Are Now On the Menu
A second set of even larger bubbles has been found blasting out of the Milky Way's center
A Galaxy is Making New Stars Faster Than its Black Hole Can Starve Them for Fuel
Gravitational interactions can drive comets and asteroids from Jupiter out to Neptune in just 10 years
The RAVN-X is a new Autonomous Aircraft Designed to Launch Small Satellites
The latest addition to the NewSpace industry is the Aevum RAVN-X, an automonous aircraft that can air-launch satellites to Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
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We're About to Find Out How Well Biomining Works in Space
You Can See the Spot Where Lava Broke Through the Wall of a Martian Crater and Began Filling it Up
Catch an Awe-Inspiring Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on December 21st
The solar system's two massive gas giant planets pair up at dusk on December 21st, with a rare conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.
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If We Used the Sun as a Gravitational Lens Telescope, This is What a Planet at Proxima Centauri Would Look Like
A recent study shows how the Sun could be used as a gravitational lens to take direct images of nearby exoplanets - like Proxima b!
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SpaceShipTwo's First Powered Test Flight Since Move to New Mexico Fizzles Out
Is There a way to Detect Strange Quark Stars, Even Though They Look Almost Exactly Like White Dwarfs?
If quark matter stars exist, they could look like white dwarfs that are unusually small.
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