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Nov 16, 2022

Webb Telescope Captures Stunning Protostar ‘Hourglass’ in Space

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The space observatory’s most recent image shows a star’s preamble in the nearby universe.

Nov 16, 2022

Civilizations at the End of Time: Dying Earth

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A trip deep into the far future, to the End of Earth.
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For most of human history, the end of Earth, the Universe, and Time itself were all identical, now we know the world will end in 4 billion years, long before the Universe begins to wind down. Today we will ask how we can extend that, and keep Earth around for far longer.

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Nov 16, 2022

Galactica Demo

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Take with a grain of salt and use at own risk:

Galactica is an AI trained on humanity’s scientific knowledge. You can use it as a new interface to access and manipulate what we know about the universe.

Nov 16, 2022

Mars is Alive! NASA Detects Unusual Activity From Inside The Planet

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It turned out that Mars wasn’t as silent as first believed. Instead, there is intense seismic activity on the red planet, which is rumbling and groaning.


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Nov 15, 2022

The Tragedy of Droids in Star Wars

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It’s not really a Star Wars story unless there’s a lovable or memorable droid stealing the spotlight. But, when you really stop and think about it, there’s also something profoundly tragic about the role artificial lifeforms play in the Star Wars universe.

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Nov 15, 2022

China Moves Closer to Completing Space Station With Final Module Launch

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China is the first country to operate a space station on its own. The country just launched the final module of its Tiangong orbital station.

Nov 15, 2022

Boltzmann Brains — Why The Universe is Most Likely a Simulation

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Nov 14, 2022

The US Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane: 10 surprising facts

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The U.S. Space Force has a mini-fleet of two robotic X-37B space planes, which have been flying secret missions since 2010.

The most recent mission, called OTV-6, launched in May 2020 and is ongoing. As that name suggests, it’s the sixth flight for the robotic X-37B, which is also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV). The other five OTV missions launched in April 2010, March 2011, December 2012, May 2015 and September 2017.

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Nov 14, 2022

World’s largest solar telescope array is now complete

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China’s Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope is among a suite of instruments the country has built in the past three years to study the Sun.

Nov 14, 2022

The Gold In Our Galaxy May Be 10 Billion Years Old, Say Scientists

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The hundreds of gold-rich stars discovered in our Milky Way galaxy may have come from smaller galaxies that merged 10 billion years ago, according to new simulations by a supercomputer.

Using the ATERUI II supercomputer in the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, scientists at Tohoku University and the University of Notre Dame developed new simulations of galaxy formation with the highest resolution yet.

The paper was published this week in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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