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Spider Species Uses Male Fireflies as Ghastly Puppets to Seduce Its Prey : ScienceAlert

Spider Species Uses Male Fireflies as Ghastly Puppets to Seduce Its Prey : ScienceAlert

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

An unassuming orb-weaving spider common across China, Japan, and Korea seems to have the powers of a master manipulator. Araneus ventricosus has ...

Stars and Dark Matter Don’t Interact in “Impossible Ways”

Stars and Dark Matter Don’t Interact in “Impossible Ways”

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Recent findings by astronomers using the Very Large Telescope show that the apparent uniform density across galaxies is a result of oversimplified ...

Colossal rogue object spotted shooting through space at 1million mph and Nasa scientists are baffled about what it is

Colossal rogue object spotted shooting through space at 1million mph and Nasa scientists are baffled about what it is

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A “UNIQUE” celestial object has been caught hurtling through space at one million miles per hour – so fast it may leave ...

Juice snaps Moon en route to Earth

Juice snaps Moon en route to Earth

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

During the first step of humankind’s first-ever lunar-Earth flyby, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission captured this stunning view of the ...

Launch Roundup: Polaris Dawn aims high, Starlink launches continue

Launch Roundup: Polaris Dawn aims high, Starlink launches continue

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

16 A total of five flights are on the worldwide launch manifest for this week. Most notable is the launch of a ...

See 2024’s Only ‘Blue Supermoon’ Set-Up A Lunar Eclipse

See 2024’s Only ‘Blue Supermoon’ Set-Up A Lunar Eclipse

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

People are silhouetted against a full moon on Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands SkyPark observation deck … [+] on Aug. 19, 2024. (Photo ...

What happens to the wreckage created when extreme dead stars clash?

What happens to the wreckage created when extreme dead stars clash?

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Scientists have discovered that when neutron stars collide, they leave behind a remnant that doesn’t resemble either of them. Neutron stars are ...

Great Chronicler Of Station’s Space Odyssey Backs Saving The ISS

Great Chronicler Of Station’s Space Odyssey Backs Saving The ISS

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The International Space Station now faces the threat of being crashed into the Antarctic seas, which … [+] would be a tragic ...

Rare blue supermoon to light up sky with ‘enhanced’ sun to make view even better – when…

Rare blue supermoon to light up sky with ‘enhanced’ sun to make view even better – when…

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

19 August 2024, 12:36 | Updated: 19 August 2024, 14:01 The blue supermoon on Sunday evening. Picture: Alamy A rare blue supermoon ...

NASA Spots Mysterious Object Moving at 1 Million Miles per Hour

NASA Spots Mysterious Object Moving at 1 Million Miles per Hour

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

This artist’s concept shows a hypothetical white dwarf, left, that has exploded as a supernova. The object at right is CWISE J1249, ...