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Scientists Are About To Experience '7 Hours Of Terror' As A Space Probe Tries...
Of all space missions in history, the most difficult kind is, without question, landing a space probe on an extraterrestrial surface, like the moon, Mars, and Venus.Even more difficult? Landing on the...
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This New Spacecraft Is Now The Future Of Virgin Galactic
The hangar that housed Virgin Galactic's ill-fated SpaceShipTwo has an empty space, but at a manufacturing plant just down the road technicians on Wednesday were back at work putting together an...
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Incredible Picture Shows A Solar System 450 Light Years Away In The Process...
A huge radio telescope in Chile has captured the best-ever image of planets forming around a distant star, researchers say.The spectacular view of planet birth, taken by the Atacama Large...
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Astrophysicists Claim They've Proven That Black Holes Don't Exist — Here's...
When a massive star, 20 to 30 times the mass of our sun, ends its life in a brilliant burst of light, known as a supernova, the remaining core collapses in on itself due to gravity. The result is...
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This Incredible Animation Shows What Happens When Two Black Holes Collide
Black holes aren't just ultra-massive collapsed stars that trap light with the sheer force of their gravitational waves.They're also very difficult objects to model — especially when they interact with...
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Now Commonly Accepted As Fact, Black Holes Were Once Purely Fiction
***SPOILER ALERT: This article contains plot spoilers for the movie "Interstellar." If you would like to avoid the spoilers, skip the THREE paragraphs that are italicized. ***(Inside Science) —...
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Astronomers Are Mystified By This Rare, Flickering Jet of Matter From A Black...
A close-up view of a rare, flickering black hole jet has scientist rethinking how these enormous eruptions form.Black holes are mostly known for gobbling up everything that gets near them, including...
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This Super-Sized Cargo Plane Carries NASA's Largest And Most Precious Equipment
NASA's Super Guppy is big enough to fit entire planes in its teardrop-shaped cargo hold. It's as close to a flying babushka doll as an aircraft can get.Its main function is to transport spaceship parts...
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These 8 Images Of The Cosmos Will Stop You In Your Tracks
On Saturday, Nov. 8 the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania will launch an art exhibition that is out of this world."Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography" features 100...
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Elon Musk Wants To Build Internet Satellites (TSLA, SCTY, GOOG, GOOGL)
And now Elon Musk wants to send satellites that deliver internet access into space. According to a report late Friday by The Wall Street Journal's Rolfe Winkler and Andy Pasztor, Musk is working with...
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Here's What Interstellar Gets Wrong About Space
I generally enjoy writing movie reviews; they’re a fun way to gather my thoughts about a movie, analyzing its plot, the production, the writing, even the science.It’s for that very reason I dreaded...
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Astronomers Caught This Amazing Stellar Pulse With The Hubble Telescope
Illuminate the universe and you'll see more beauty than you could ever imagine.That's exactly what a cosmic phenomenon, called a light echo, does.This Hubble image to the right was taken in February,...
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Half Of All Stars Out There Are Lonely And Galaxy-Less
As many as half of all stars in the universe lie in the vast gulfs of space between galaxies, an unexpected discovery made in a new study using NASA rockets. These stars could help solve mysteries...
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Crazy Image Of A Dark Nebula Looks Like It Is Writhing In Agony
Adam Block, manager at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter at the University of Arizona sent us this image of the nebula LBN 438, explaining that this dark cloud of dust glows eerily both from scattered...
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This Incredible Picture Shows Just How Tiny The International Space Station Is
The image to your right shows perhaps the favorite spot of every crew member aboard the International Space Station.It's called the Cupola observatory module, and it not only has the largest windows on...
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Tomorrow, Humans Will Land A Probe On A Comet — Here's The Incredibly Tricky...
The moment we've all been waiting for is one day away.On Wednesday November 12, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is scheduled to deploy the Philae lander in the first attempt in human...
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Humans Just Got Our Closest Look At A Comet Yet — And It's Mind-Blowing
Ten years ago the European Space Agency launched Rosetta, a first-of-its-kind spacecraft on a mission to meet a comet.That comet? 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.It finally accomplished that goal in August —...
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Humans Are About To Land A Probe On A Comet For The First Time — Here's How...
Wednesday, Nov. 12 will either be history-making or heart-breaking.That day will be the culmination of a ten-year project that has already taught us much about our solar system.Ten years ago, the...
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Points Out Some Big Plot Holes In 'Interstellar'
Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson let his 2.62 million Twitter followers know what he thought about Christopher Nolan's new spacey, sci-fi film "Interstellar." And his overall opinion appeared...
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