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Why NASA is launching a new polar satellite This Thursday, a new Earth observation satellite will launch into space, where it will help scientists forecast the weather and keep an eye on increasingly common extreme weather events. The satellite, called Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2), ...
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Webb telescope captures 'bejeweled' image of dwarf galaxy The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a remarkably detailed image of a nearby dwarf galaxy. The near-infrared view reveals the deepest glimpse yet into a stellar panorama that could offer astronomers an ideal means of studying aspects of the early ...
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Heat shield that could land humans on Mars is hitching a ride to space When a polar satellite designed to improve weather forecasting launches Thursday, an experimental heat shield will tag along. It could land humans on Mars. The two separate missions will both launch aboard a United Launch Alliance ...
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In a First, Scientists Discover a Dead Star With a Solid Crust! Neutron stars, essentially the end-products that form when the largest stars in the universe collapse to impossible densities, are already one of the most remarkable celestial objects we see in space. If black holes were the ivy league universities, ...
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Hubble telescope reveals huge star's explosion in blow-by-blow detail WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - About 11.5 billion years ago, a distant star roughly 530 times larger than our sun died in a cataclysmic explosion that blew its outer layers of gas into the surrounding cosmos, a supernova documented by astronomers in ...
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Sea levels might rise much faster than thought, data from Greenland suggest Greenland's largest ice sheet is thawing at a much higher rate than expected, a new study has revealed, suggesting it will add six times more water to the rising sea levels than previously thought. And the trend may not be limited to Greenland, scientists ...
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Astronomers Discover Closest Known Black Hole to Earth Most black holes are born from the deaths of large stars, according to NASA. When stars roughly ten times the mass of the sun or bigger reach the ends of their lives, they collapse in powerful supernova explosions.
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New Webb telescope image shows 'lonely' dwarf galaxy in striking detail (CNN) -- The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a remarkably detailed image of a nearby dwarf galaxy. The near-infrared view reveals the deepest glimpse yet into a stellar panorama that could offer astronomers an ideal means of studying aspects of ...
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Outlining the requirements for a rendezvous mission with an interstellar visitor A team of researchers from Harvard University, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Wellesley College have outlined the likely requirements to rendezvous with the next interstellar visitor.
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Cichlid fish that brood in their mother's mouth sometimes get eaten A pair of researchers at Central Michigan University has found that cichlid fish that brood their young in their mouths eat up to 40% of their offspring. For their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, Jake Sawecki and Peter Dijkstra studied ...
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