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Gargantuan sunspot 15-Earths wide erupts with another colossal X-class solar flare (video)
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AR3664 is no ordinary sunspot. The behemoth dark patch on the sun’s surface has ballooned in recent days, becoming one of the ...
NASA’s planet hunter shakes off reaction wheel woes and gets back to work • The Register
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NASA has confirmed that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has recovered from a reaction wheel problem and resumed making observations. The ...
Exploding whale incident is still one of most bizarre spectacles ever recorded
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It’s been over 50 years since the original incident, but it’s still a topic of conversation today because of how bizarre it ...
I discovered hydrothermal vents, but I’m only known for finding the Titanic | Geothermal energy
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The mid-ocean ridge is where the Earth creates its outer skin. It’s called the boundary of creation. We knew there was life ...
New NASA Supercomputer Simulations Reveal What it Would be Like to Fall Into a Supermassive Black Hole
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Supermassive black holes are capable of violently devouring entire stars, and warping the very fabric of spacetime with their near incomprehensible mass ...
A failed star and an ammonia trail could reveal how some giant exoplanets form
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Astronomers now have a way to figure out how gas-giant planets form, thanks to a discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope ...
NASA confirms “independent review” of Orion heat shield issue
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Enlarge / The Orion spacecraft after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean at the end of the Artemis I mission. NASA has asked ...
Scientists Discover Why “Earth’s Twin” Has Almost No Water
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Venus today is dry thanks to water loss to space as atomic hydrogen. In the dominant loss process, an HCO+ ion recombines ...
Huge asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza will skim past Earth at 56,000mph today, NASA warns
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The asteroid 2024 JZ will pass Earth today within just 0.028 astronomical units Experts insist that this is perfectly safe and that 2024 ...
‘Lost’ spy satellite orbited Earth undetected for 25 years—until now, scientists say
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