A state-of-the-art high-resolution camera system has been sent to the International Space Station (ISS) where it is expected to operate for 60 days to help shape plans for a new ultra-high-resolution camera system that is currently being in development. The actual specifications of the camera have not been released (other than the statement that it …
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By Michael Le Page Aerial view of Old Town Square in Prague, Czech Republic Eblis/Getty Images On November 15, the world will reach a milestone, when the human population will reach 8 billion for the first time. Of course, it is impossible to know exactly when we will reach this threshold, but the UN has …
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It is sometimes tempting to imagine a supernatural hand behind the arrangement of celestial bodies. But the Universe is big, immense even, and the flow of nature presents many fascinations. So is the galactic triplet Arp 248, an arrangement of interacting galaxies that is both visually and scientifically fascinating. Arp 248 is a trio of …
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Astronomers are vigilantly scanning the skies for asteroids veering into the vicinity of Earth’s solar system. Butsome are masked. Most asteroids – rubble leftovers from the formation of our solar system around 4.6 billion years ago – orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter. Millions exist there. But in the inner solar system, asteroids are …
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A “planet killer” asteroid lurking in the sun’s glare has finally been detected, and the giant space rock could one day crash into Earth. The ‘potentially dangerous’ 0.9-mile-wide (1.5 kilometer) asteroid, named 2022 AP7, is one of many large space rocks that astronomers have recently discovered near the orbits of Earth and Venus. Currently, 2022 …
image: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/2319/exoplanet-types-illustration/ CAPTION: An illustration of the variations among the more than 5,000 known exoplanets discovered since the 1990s. see After Credit: Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech HOUSTON – (November 7, 2022) – A new model that accounts for the interaction of forces acting on infant planets may explain two puzzling observations that have cropped up …
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HOUSTON – (November 7, 2022) – A new model that accounts for the interaction of forces acting on infant planets may explain two puzzling observations that have cropped up repeatedly among the more than 3,800 planetary systems cataloged to date. An illustration of the variations among the more than 5,000 known exoplanets discovered since the …
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Scattered throughout the vacuum of space are stars, galaxies, stellar remnants, and other objects billions and billions of years old. The age of the universe is now estimated to be around 13.8 billion years old – almost unfathomable. But how do we know this? We can determine the age of the universe (to some extent) …
Emeritus Cosmologist and Stephen Hawking co-author George Ellis in an interview about the limits of cosmology, and why we can never know if the universe had a beginning or has existed forever. Most people today believe in the Big Bang theory when it comes to the origins of the cosmos. Can we be certain that …
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