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Gravitational waves could show what's happening inside a star as it's going supernova
New Simulation Shows Exactly What Dark Matter Would Look Like If We Could See It
A detailed simulation of dark matter finds that dark matter haloes form in a wide range of sizes.
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Neptune & Triton - August 31, 1989.
SpaceX's Starship Prototype Nails Another Hop Test! Bring on Orbital Flights!
SpaceX has nailed the hop test once again and the Starship is on its way toward making high-altitude flights and trips to space!
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Some Quasars Actually Contain Two Supermassive Black Holes in the Process of Merging
Astronomers have found a powerful quasar powered by two supermassive black holes.
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Review: Canadarm and Collaboration by Elizabeth Howell
Think you know the Canadian space program? A new book may prove otherwise. The book is Canadarm and Collaboration: How Canada's Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds by Elizabeth Howell, out on October 20th, 2020 by ECW Press.
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Machine Learning Algorithm Scoops up 50 New Exoplanets
A machine learning algorithm created by scientists in the UK has confirmed 50 new exoplanets, effectively opening the door to AI-enabled exoplanet studies!
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Astronomers Thought They'd Found a Red Dwarf That Wasn't Hostile to its Habitable Zone Planets. They Were Wrong
New research using Hubble archive data shows that GJ 887, the nearby red dwarf star system with two exoplanets, might not be as calm and "boring" as we thought!
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Hubble Shows the True Size of Andromeda
Quasars can twinkle?
The Solar System has been Flying Through the Debris of a Supernova for 33,000 Years
Hubble's Photo of the Cygnus Loop is, Of Course, Incredible
A New Non-toxic Propellant is Looking Promising
Europa's entire icy shell shifted 70-degrees a few million years ago
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" VIII: What is the Zoo Hypothesis?
Another possible resolution to the Fermi Paradox: we could all be living in some giant "nature preserve" where the aliens are monitoring us!
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James Webb is Working Perfectly! On the Ground. Next Trick: Doing it From Space
The James Webb Space Telescope recently passed another critical milestone - the Ground Segment Test - and is on track for its scheduled launch in Oct of 2021.
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SpaceX is Going to Hop Starship Again This Weekend
SpaceX has a busy weekend ahead with three missions scheduled for Sunday, including a 150 m hop test with the SN6 prototype!
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Supernova Wreckage is Still Expanding at Extreme Speeds After 400 Years
The gas and dust cast off by a supernova explosion keeps moving at a high speed for centuries.
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Astronomers find 100 brown dwarfs in our neighborhood
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" VII: What it the Planetarium Hypothesis
In this installment, we explore the possibility that we haven't heard from aliens because they've got us in a simulated environment where they can watch us!
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