That’s not our Moon, that’s Dwarf planet Ceres. The largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system. It was the first member of the asteroid belt to be discovered when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it in 1801. And when Dawn arrived in 2015, Ceres became the first dwarf planet to receive a visit from a spacecraft.
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Interstellar Travel Using Only Known Physics? Possible?
For as long as human beings have been watching the night sky, we’ve dreamed of visiting other worlds and truly seeing what’s out there in the Universe. While our chemical-based rockets have taken us to a myriad of planets, moons, and other bodies in the Solar…
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Astronomers Discover 'Pi Earth' Exoplanet Orbits Its Star Once Every 3.14 Days
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Astronomers Discover 'Pi Earth' Exoplanet Orbits Its Star Once Every 3.14 Days
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Astronomers Discover 'Pi Earth' Exoplanet Orbits Its Star Once Every 3.14 Days
Every exoplanet is special in its own way, but a newly discovered exoplanet 186 light-years away is an especially delicious treat. It's a smallish world around the same size as Earth, whipping around its star on an orbit that takes just 3.14 days.
That’s the most incredible video for today, totally DYI crazy science and sci-fi tech stuff:
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Mysterious Circles in The Desert Explained by Alan Turing Theory From 70 Years Ago
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Mysterious Circles in The Desert Explained by Alan Turing Theory From 70 Years Ago
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Mysterious Circles in The Desert Explained by Alan Turing Theory From 70 Years Ago
It was 1952, and Alan Turing was about to reshape humanity's understanding of biology.
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Well, yes- that's Charon 👉 https://youtu.be/joi090MlntU
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Charon - the moon of Pluto
Yes, that is not our moon, that’s Charon, also known as Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet Pluto.
Charon is the sixth-largest trans-Neptunian object after Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake and Gonggong. It was discovered…
Charon is the sixth-largest trans-Neptunian object after Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake and Gonggong. It was discovered…
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First Compelling Evidence of Organisms That Eat Viruses as a Food Source
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First Compelling Evidence of Organisms That Eat Viruses as a Food Source
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First Compelling Evidence of Organisms That Eat Viruses as a Food Source
Eat or be eaten: It's an edict of Mother Nature that connects every corner of the biosphere in a sprawling web of producers, consumers, detritivores, and scavengers.
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Scientists Say They've Determined The Total Amount of Matter in The Universe
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Scientists Say They've Determined The Total Amount of Matter in The Universe
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Scientists Say They've Determined The Total Amount of Matter in The Universe
The stuff that makes up our Universe is tricky to measure, to put it mildly. We know that most of the Universe's matter-energy density consists of dark energy, the mysterious unknown force that's driving the Universe's expansion. And we know that t
Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists
Two years ago, planetary scientists reported the discovery of a large saltwater lake under the ice at Mars’s south pole, a finding that was met with excitement and some scepticism. Now, researchers have confirmed the presence of that lake — and found three more.
The discovery, reported on 28 September in Nature Astronomy1, was made using radar data from the European Space Agency’s Mars-orbiting spacecraft, called Mars Express. It follows the detection of a single subsurface lake in the same region in 2018 — which, if confirmed, would be the first body of liquid water ever detected on the red planet and a possible habitat for life. But that finding was based on just 29 observations made from 2012 to 2015, and many researchers said they needed more evidence to support the claim. The latest study used a broader data set comprising 134 observations from 2012 to 2019.
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Two years ago, planetary scientists reported the discovery of a large saltwater lake under the ice at Mars’s south pole, a finding that was met with excitement and some scepticism. Now, researchers have confirmed the presence of that lake — and found three more.
The discovery, reported on 28 September in Nature Astronomy1, was made using radar data from the European Space Agency’s Mars-orbiting spacecraft, called Mars Express. It follows the detection of a single subsurface lake in the same region in 2018 — which, if confirmed, would be the first body of liquid water ever detected on the red planet and a possible habitat for life. But that finding was based on just 29 observations made from 2012 to 2015, and many researchers said they needed more evidence to support the claim. The latest study used a broader data set comprising 134 observations from 2012 to 2019.
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NASA Detected Phosphine on Venus Decades Ago And Didn't Realise, Scientists Claim
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NASA Detected Phosphine on Venus Decades Ago And Didn't Realise, Scientists Claim
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NASA Detected Phosphine on Venus Decades Ago And Didn't Realise, Scientists Claim
If life does exist on Venus, NASA may have first detected it back in 1978. But the finding went unnoticed for 42 years.
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Dramatic Timelapse From Hubble Shows a Star Literally Exploding in Nothingness
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Dramatic Timelapse From Hubble Shows a Star Literally Exploding in Nothingness
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Dramatic Timelapse From Hubble Shows a Star Literally Exploding in Nothingness
With an uncountable number of stars in the Universe, you'd think their explosive deaths would be fairly common. However, rarely do we get to see the spectacular way these supernova events unfold in the visible spectrum - but that's exactly the trea
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We're Finally Getting Closer to Solving The Mystery of Glass's Perplexing Strength
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We're Finally Getting Closer to Solving The Mystery of Glass's Perplexing Strength
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We're Finally Getting Closer to Solving The Mystery of Glass's Perplexing Strength
A windowpane or a tumbler might shatter quite easily, but solid glass is actually a lot more rigid and strong than it technically should be, if we consider its molecular make-up.
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Nobel-Prize Winning Black Hole Researcher Holds a Map of Stars in Her Mind
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Nobel-Prize Winning Black Hole Researcher Holds a Map of Stars in Her Mind
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Nobel-Prize Winning Black Hole Researcher Holds a Map of Stars in Her Mind
For US astronomer Andrea Ghez, who won this year's Nobel Physics Prize, what makes black holes so fascinating is how tricky they are to conceptualize.
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Study Confirms 'Slow Blinks' Really Do Work to Communicate With Your Cat
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Study Confirms 'Slow Blinks' Really Do Work to Communicate With Your Cat
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Study Confirms 'Slow Blinks' Really Do Work to Communicate With Your Cat
Cats have a reputation for standoffishness, especially compared with dogs, but if you find your feline friend a little hard to bond with, maybe you're just not speaking their language. Never fear - new research has shown that it's not so difficult.
Very good article about Sweden and the coronavirus: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/it-s-been-so-so-surreal-critics-sweden-s-lax-pandemic-policies-face-fierce-backlash
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‘It's been so, so surreal.' Critics of Sweden's lax pandemic policies face fierce backlash
Doctors face reprimands for wearing masks as researchers consider leaving the country
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25-Year Study of Nuclear vs Renewables Says One Is Clearly Better at Cutting Emissions
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25-Year Study of Nuclear vs Renewables Says One Is Clearly Better at Cutting Emissions
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25-Year Study of Nuclear vs Renewables Says One Is Clearly Better at Cutting Emissions
Nuclear power is often promoted as one of the best ways to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels to generate the electricity we need, but new research suggests that going all-in on renewables such as wind and solar might be a better approach to serio
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