Space
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Farewell Cassini: Saturn spacecraft makes fiery, final dive | Marcia Dunn
This July 23, 2008, image made available by NASA shows the planet Saturn, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft. After a 20-year voyage, Cassini is poised to dive into Saturn on Friday, Sept. 15, ...
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The accelerating expansion of the Universe may not be real | David Wiltshire
The difference in the magnitudes of supernovae in the ΛCDM and Timescape cosmologies and the magnitudes the supernovae would appear to have in an empty universe (horizontal dashed line). Both models ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- Sept. 11, 2017 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- September 11, 2017 Friends Committee on National Legislation Sept. 12 10:00 a.m. House Foreign Affairs Committee, "Hearing: Sanctions, Diplomacy, and Information: Pressuring ...
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Scientists observe largest solar flare in 12 years | University of Sheffield
Coronal mass ejections. Image from the Space Weather Prediction Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sept. 11, 2017 (Phys.org) -- The sun's largest solar flare in more than ...
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Massive sunspots and huge solar flares mean unexpected space weather for Earth | Alexa Halford, Brett Carter and Julie Currie
Two sunspots that can be seen with eclipse glasses have the potential to impact Earth's technology and Weather Sept. 7, 2017 (The Conversation) -- If you still have your solar viewing glasses from ...
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Researchers propose how the universe became filled with light | P. Kaaret
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 30, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Soon after the Big Bang, the universe went completely dark. The intense, seminal event that created the cosmos churned up so much hot, thick gas ...
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Stars orbiting supermassive black hole show Einstein was right again | Marzieh Parsa
Artist's impression of the orbits of three of the stars very close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Credit: ESO/M. Parsa/L. Calçada Aug. 14, 2017 (Phys.org) -- At the ...
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Tardigrades: The last survivors on Earth | David Sloan, Rafael Alves Batista, and Abraham Loeb
Tardigrade. Source: BBC July 14, 2017 (Phys.org) -- The world's most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the Sun ...
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Trillion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica (Update) | AFP
Thermal wavelength image of a large iceberg, which has calved off the Larsen C ice shelf. Darker colors are colder, and brighter colors are warmer, so the rift between the iceberg and the ice shelf ...
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Earth's magnetic field 'simpler than we thought' | M.H. Walczak et al
A composite image of the Western hemisphere of the Earth. Credit: NASAJuly 7, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Scientists have identified patterns in the Earth's magnetic field that evolve on the order of 1,000 ...
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Mars surface 'more uninhabitable' than thought | Jennifer Wadsworth & Charles Cockell
Latest lab tests show salt minerals on Mars kill basic life form bacteria, implying the 'Red Planet' is more uninhabitable than previously thought July 6, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Hopes of finding life on ...
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