Feb 19
NASA has captured the first images of a star’s supernova remains, having snapped the burst of radioactive material from the death hundreds of years ago of a star at least … Continue reading
Feb 19
Space is a weird place, and the quest to explore its mysteries in person has been no small source of strangeness and surprise. Here are some lesser-known facts about humanity’s ongoing missions beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
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Feb 19
Nobody expected the giant meteor which exploded over Chelyabinsk
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Feb 18
An asteroid roughly the size of three football pitches that was expected to hurtle past Earth last night has been lost by astronomers, after attempts to track 2000 EM26 during … Continue reading
Feb 17
An asteroid 885 feet across and traveling at 27,000 mph will hurtle past Earth later today, with the close – astronomically speaking – fly-by of the space rock named 2000 … Continue reading
Feb 14
As much as some of us (ahem) were hoping the Mars mystery rock turned out to be a long-lost baseball from yet unknown aliens, the cause behind the rock’s sudden … Continue reading
Feb 14
At last, NASA’s scientists have revealed the mystery of the mysterious rock
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Feb 14
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory has captured this Heart in the Darkness, for all of you astronomers in love out there, "a heart-shaped cloud of 8 million-degree Celsius gas in the central region of the star cluster NGC 346. NASA says that the "the nature of the heart in the darkness will remain mysterious" until they make future observations.
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Feb 14
Why It's So Hard to Find Alien LIfe
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A big reason why the Fermi paradox has punch is the matter of time. Max Tegmark gets into this in his excellent new book Our Mathematical Universe (Knopf, 2014), where he runs through what many thinkers on the subject have noted: Our Sun is young enough that countless stars and the planets that orbit them must have offered homes for life long before we ever appeared. With at least a several billion year head start, wouldn’t intelligent life have had time to spread, and shouldn’t its existence be perfectly obvious by now?
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Feb 12
One day, poor planet Earth will succumb to the centuries of abuse we’ve dealt her, shrivel up, and cease to support life. Then, if we’re not already living in some Elysium-like habitat in space
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