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Tag Archives: NASA
Fired Space Force commander issues warning to military leaders
The Left-Tards’ flawed and dangerous ideologies can be described as a metastasized malignant tumor that is rapidly spreading throughout society and destroying all of our institutions. From the indoctrination of our children with “Critical Race Theory” to the politicization of … Continue reading
Was Einstein Right? Single Star Will Let Astronomers Test Theory of Relativity
Einstein’s theory of relativity has stood the test of time; over 100 years and counting. My guess is it will once again be proven right. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Newsweek Meghan Bartels, Newsweek Later this year, a special … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Black Hole, Galaxy, Milky Way, NASA, Physics, Star, Theory of Relativity, Universe
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The other blue planet: How Mars looked 3.5bn years ago – and scientists believe the water is still there
It would be so cool if man could actually colonize Mars. This however, seems increasingly more unlikely to occur, given how mankind continues to “behave” here on earth. Odds are that a third world war, which quite possibly could become … Continue reading
Stephen Hawking issues dire warning: We have less than 600 years until Earth becomes a sizzling fireball
How we’re going to travel at the speed of light, 186,282 miles per second, is a slight problem, at least with today’s technology. Although I suppose anything is possible. It seems we would need to be integrated into a beam … Continue reading
Christian ‘Researcher’ Claims The Rapture Starts On Saturday
Here we go again… Crazy Christians and their obsession with Jesus and the end of the world. These morons think they’re going to heaven for all eternity, but being the “good” Christians they are, they will tell you that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Christianity, David Meade, Elohim, God, Jews, Jim Bakker, NASA, Nibiru, Religion
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‘Mystery’ signal from space is solved. It’s not aliens
I’ve always felt that the day we find intelligent life somewhere in the universe, and that day will come, we (the public, the masses) will never know it. The science and political communities will keep it hidden to avoid mass … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien Life, Aliens, Intelligent Life, NASA, Puerto Rico, Satellite, SETI, Star, Universe
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Astronomers have detected ‘strange signals’ that may come from a star 11 light-years away
Is there intelligent life somewhere in the universe? With the endless numbers of galaxies containing planets, there has to be. The numbers the number of celestial bodies is just too large for life to be limited to planet earth. TGO Refer … Continue reading
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Tagged Earth, Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Extraterrestrial Life, Intelligent Life, NASA, Outer Space, Radio Signals, SETI, Universe
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NASA has a plan for preventing asteroid strikes, and it’s going to test it
As people of a certain faith (which shall remain nameless) continue stoning people to death, cutting off women’s clitorises, blowing themselves up, etc., decent, educated people of science work to improve the human condition. Hopefully, science will someday do away … Continue reading
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Tagged Asteroid, DART, Earth, NASA, Outer Space, Religion, Science, Universe
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A massive asteroid is going to zip past Earth later this month
If one of these rocks collides with Earth, that would more than like be the end of our species. This is how random life is. All of the wars over territory, power, money and of course, all of the religious … Continue reading
Signs of alien life? Mysterious star stirs controversy
Skeptics will always disagree, especially the religious fanatics among us who believe that God created us and only us and that we are somehow special, but the universe is too vast to not contain countless other living creatures. And yes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien Life, Aliens, Asteroid, Galaxy, Kepler Telescope, NASA, Planet, Solar System, Universe
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Universe ‘resting on sofa’ as it slowly dies
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press August 10, 2015 Sydney (AFP) – The Universe is experiencing a slow death, like a person resting on the sofa awaiting eternal sleep, according to astronomers from a project which … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Australia, Big Bang, Energy, Galaxy, NASA, Outer Space, Science, Space Satellites, Telescope, Universe
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Vatican skeptical about close encounters of the third kind
I almost hate to say this, being that the Catholic Church is not exactly one of my favorite institutions, but I agree with them on this one. I don’t believe that we will meet intelligent life out there in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Castel Gandolfo, Catholic Church, Christianity, Italy, NASA, Outer Space, Planet Earth, Universe, Vatican
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A nearby black hole just erupted for the first time in 26 years and scientists are ecstatic
The universe is such an intriguing place. One has to wonder if we, the human race, will ever know how it all came to be; whether there is one universe or multiple universes, what are all of the natural forces … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Hole, Galaxy, Gravity, Intelligent Life, Milky Way, NASA, Outer Space, Science, Universe
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Methane in Mars Meteorites Suggests Possibility of Life
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi Methane, a potential sign of primitive life, has been found in meteorites from Mars, adding weight to the idea that life could live off methane on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Extra-Terrestrial Life, Life, Mars, NASA, Planet, Red Planet, Science, Solar System, Universe
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Brightest Galaxy in the Universe Found
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall May 22, 2015 A newfound galaxy 12.5 billion light-years from Earth is the most luminous one known in the universe, blazing more brightly than 300 trillion suns, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Astrophysics, Black Hole, Earth, Galaxy, NASA, Outer Space, Science, Universe
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NASA’s chief scientist says we’ll find aliens by 2025 — here’s the most likely place they’re hiding
There is no question in my mind that there is other intelligent life, more than likely in many places in the universe. And by intelligent I’m not talking like humans, I mean really intelligent, which to me means having logic … Continue reading
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Tagged DNA, ET, Extra Terrestiral, Galaxy, Moons, NASA, Planets, Science, Scientists, Universe
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Giant asteroid set to buzz Earth, poses no threat
One of these asteroids is going to make “landfall” one day and ruin the flow of our lives… And while the men and women of science track these monsters and try to figure out how to destroy one (should it … Continue reading
A Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Interesting and informative conversation. TGO Video: YouTube
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Tagged Astrophysics, Congress, Education, NASA, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Physics, Religion, Science, United States
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Lack of ocean heat puzzles NASA hunt for warming ‘hiatus’
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press October 6, 2014 4:19 PM Washington (AFP) – The deep ocean may not be hiding heat after all, raising new questions about why global warming appears to have slowed in … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlantic Ocean, Clouds, Earth, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Heat, NASA, Oceans, Science, Seas
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Newfound Asteroid Will Give Earth Super-Close Shave on Sunday
All of the madness going on here on earth; the fighting, the killing… Yet all it takes is one of these giant space rocks to collide with our planet and we are history… That wouldn’t be a very honorable way … Continue reading
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Tagged Asteroid, Astronomy, Earth, NASA, Outer Space, Science, Space
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Star Explosion’s Beauty Revealed by Space Telescope Photo
Awesome! The universe is truly a magnificent place. It really is a shame that we don’t completely understand it, at least not yet. But then again, there is a certain beauty in the mysterious. TGO Refer to story below. Source: … Continue reading
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Tagged Acta Astronautica, Earth, NASA, Outer Space, Science, Scientist, Star, Star Explosion, Supernova, Universe
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Astronomers spot most Earth-like planet yet
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By ALICIA CHANG LOS ANGELES (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what they say is the most Earth-like planet yet detected — a distant, rocky world that’s similar in size to … Continue reading
Americas get front-row seat for lunar eclipse
For you star gazers out there… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — North and South America, get ready for the first eclipse of the year— in color. Next Tuesday morning, … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Earth, Eclipses, Lunar Eclipse, Moon, NASA, Northern Hemisphere, Science, Scientists, Southern Hemisphere
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Major Solar Flare Erupts from the Sun (Video)
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer March 31, 2014 12:26 PM The sun unleashed a major solar flare on Saturday (March 29), causing a radio blackout for several minutes on Earth, space … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Astrophysics, Atmosphere, Earth, NASA, NOAA, Radiation, Science, Solar Flares, Sun
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NASA plots daring flight to Jupiter’s watery moon
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA is plotting a daring robotic mission to Jupiter’s watery moon Europa, a place where astronomers speculate there might be some form of life. … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Europa, Jupiter's Moon, Moon, NASA, Science, Solar System, Space, Space Flight
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Record-Breaking Meteorite Crash on Moon Sparks Brightest Lunar Explosion Ever
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Megan Gannon, News Editor The impact of a large meteorite on the lunar surface on Sept. 11, 2013, resulted in a bright flash, observed … The high-speed impact of a wayward … Continue reading
Smallest, Faintest Galaxies of the Ancient Universe Spotted
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the light-bending properties of the massive galaxy cluster Abell … Two of NASA’s most powerful space telescopes have teamed up … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Big Bang, Earth, Frontier Fields, Galaxy, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Science
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The biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2013
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: THE WEEK From cloning to potential alien life By The Week Staff | 8:00am ET A galaxy teeming with Earths Astronomers calculated that there are 11 billion possibly habitable planets in our galaxy, greatly … Continue reading
Venus Now Shining at Its Brightest: How to See It
Interesting stuff… TGORefer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Geoff Gaherty, Starry Night Education December 5, 2013 6:56 PM Venus is shining at its brightest in the low southwestern night sky just after sunset, making it a fine time for … Continue reading
Scientists to Congress: We Have the Technology to Find Alien Life
Interesting stuff… TGORefer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Tanya Lewis, Staff Writer For thousands of years, humans have been wondering whether there’s life elsewhere in the universe. Now, the technology finally exists to search for it. To find extraterrestrial … Continue reading
Signs of Water Found on 5 Alien Planets by Hubble Telescope
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall, Senior Writer NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected water in the atmospheres of five planets The five exoplanets with hints of water are all scorching-hot, Jupiter-size worlds that are … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Goddard Space Flight Center, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Science, WASP-12b, WASP-17b, WASP-19b, Wide Field Camera 3, XO-1b
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Giant Electric Fields May Supercharge Particles In Earth’s Radiation Belts
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor Huge electric fields in the radiation belts around Earth may help explain how electrons surrounding the planet can be accelerated to speeds near that of … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Earth, NASA, Outer Space, Physical Review Letters, Radiation, Science, Space, Van Allen Probes
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Milky Way s Black Hole Is Shooting Particle Jets
Interesting stuff… Refer to story below. Source: Scientific American By Clara Moskowitz A torrent of energetic particles appears to be spewing from the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, coming from the gigantic black hole that lies at its heart, … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Bing, Black Hole, Google, Milky Way, NASA, New Mexico, Sagittarius A*, Science, Universe
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Comet ISON Headed for Close Sun Encounter on Thanksgiving
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Mike Wall, Senior Writer Comet ISON’s highly anticipated flyby of the sun is now just two weeks away, and scientists and skywatchers alike hope the encounter gives them another reason … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Comet, Comet ISON, Facebook, NASA, Oort Cloud, Science, Solar System, Sun, Twitter
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Study: 8.8 billion Earth-size, just-right planets
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — Space is vast, but it may not be so lonely after all: A study finds the Milky Way is teeming with billions of planets … Continue reading
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Tagged Earth, Geoffrey Marcy, Kepler, Milky Way, NASA, Planet, Science, Solar System, Terrestrial Planet
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India, U.S. preparing satellites to probe Martian atmosphere
Don’t you just love it? Of the over 1 billion people in India, half of them are living in sub-standard conditions and tens of million of others in downright poverty. Yet here is India, working on the space program with … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, India, Mars, Mars Atmosphere, NASA, Outer Space, Science, Space, University of Colorado at Boulder
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NASA Space Telescopes to Peer Deeper Into Universe Than Ever Before
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. SPACE.com By by Mike Wall, Senior Writer Three NASA space telescopes are teaming up to give astronomers their best-ever looks at some of the most distant objects in the universe. The space agency’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Abell 2744, Bing, California Institute of Technology, Chandra, Frontier Field, Google, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Outer Space, Yahoo
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Number of Confirmed Alien Planets Nears 1,000
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com by Mike Wall, Senior Writer September 27, 2013 7:16 AM Just two decades after discovering the first world beyond our solar system, astronomers are closing in on alien planet No. 1,000. … Continue reading
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Tagged Exoplanet Archive, Extrasolar Planet, Facebook, Google, Kepler, Milky Way, NASA, Outer Space, Planetary Habitability, Terestrial Planet
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On Giant Blue Alien Planet, It Rains Molten Glass
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com by Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor There’s a “blue marble” alien planet just 63 light-years from Earth, but the world is anything but friendly to life. Researchers say the blue color … Continue reading
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Tagged Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Earth, Facebook, Fahrenheit, Google, Hot Jupiter, NASA, Planet, Solar System, XMM-Newton
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Earth Life Likely Came from Mars, Study Suggests
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com by Mike Wall, Senior Writer NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope snapped this shot of Mars on Aug. 26, 2003, when the Red Planet was 34.7 … We may all be Martians. Evidence is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Astronomy, Earth, Mars, Martian, NASA, Outer Space, Planet, Red Planet, Science
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Comet ISON Blazes with Distant Galaxies in Stunning Hubble Photo
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com Mike Wall July 26, 2013 Science, Social Science, & HumanitiesC/2012 S1 A spectacular new photo gives a deep-space view of Comet ISON, which could put on a dazzling show when it … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Comet, Comet ISON, Great Comet, Hubble Telescope, NASA, Science, Solar System, Space Telescope Science Institute, Twitter
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Strange Blue World: Alien Planet’s True Color Revealed, a First
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com by Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer Call it the deep blue dot. For the first time, scientists have seen the visible color of a distant alien world. The exoplanet — called HD … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Celsius, Fahrenheit, Google, HD 189733b, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Science, Spitzer Space Telescope, University of Exeter
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Mercury’s Volcanic Facelift Belies Planet’s True Age
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com by Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer July 3, 2013 Mercury is looking good for its age. Even the oldest parts of the surface of the planet closest to the sun are only … Continue reading
‘We Might Be Martians’
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: The Atlantic By J.J. Gould | The Atlantic In a sense, the history of astronomy has been a history of the marginalization of life on Earth in our understanding of the universe. … Continue reading
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Tagged Ames Research Center, Aspen Ideas Festival, Astronomy, Dimitar Sasselov, Earth, Google, Mars, NASA, Science, Space Shuttle Columbia
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Black Holes May Have Been Common in Early Universe
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi | SPACE.com Black holes may have been abundant among the first stars in the universe, helping explain the origin of the supermassive monsters that lurk at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Big Bang, Black Hole, Extended Groth Strip, Google, NASA, Science, Space, Spitzer Space Telescope
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Huge Asteroid Cruises Past Earth
Interesting… Millions upon millions of human beings waste their lives fighting with one another, abusing one another, killing one another… And yet, if one of these gigantic asteroids collides with Earth, people will realize just how stupid they are and … Continue reading
Sun Unleashes Biggest Solar Flare of the Year Yet
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Tariq Malik | SPACE.com The most powerful solar flare of the year erupted from the sun today (April 11) sparking a temporary radio blackout on Earth, NASA officials say. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Coronal Mass Ejection, Earth, Google, NASA, Outer Space, Pranknet, Science, Solar Flare, Sun, Yahoo
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Star Caught Circling Black Hole at Record-Breaking Speed
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Megan Gannon | SPACE.com Astronomers have spotted a star in our galaxy that races around a black hole at a breakneck speed, orbiting once every 2.4 hours, scientists say. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Hole, European Space Agency, European Space Astronomy Centre, Google, International Space Station, Milky Way, NASA, Science, XMM-Newton, Yahoo
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Most Earth-Like Alien Planet Possibly Found
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Clara Moskowitz | SPACE.com LONG BEACH, Calif. — A possible alien planet discovered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope is the most Earth-like world yet detected beyond our solar system, scientists … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien Planet, American Astronomical Society, Ames Research Center, Astronaut, Earth, Milky Way, NASA, Natalie Batalha, Science, Super-Earth
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Massive Star Explosion Captured in Stunning Photo
Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Space.com By Tia Ghose | SPACE.com LONG BEACH, Calif. – A beautiful new image snapped by a NASA spacecraft captures the aftermath of a massive star explosion with unprecedented resolution. The image … Continue reading