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2022 Milky Way Photographer of The Year Winners
Every year, travel publication Capture the Atlas gathers images of the Milky Way taken from around the world. The photos attest to how cameras open up a myriad of worlds invisible to …
Via sciencenews.org
More Evidence That the Blueprint For Life Started in Space
In a new study, scientists have found the remaining two of the five informational units—known as nucleobases (adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil)—of DNA and RNA that were still to be detected …
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Juha Tanhua’s Photography Turns Parking Lot Oil Spills Into Galaxies
Finnish photographer Juha Tanhua noticed an oil spill by his car that reminded him of the Northern Lights. He captured it, then forgot about it. When he rediscovered the image in his …
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Exoplanet Orbiting The Nearest Star To Our Solar System Discovered
An exoplanet (an Earth-like body that orbits a star that isn’t our Sun) has been discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri—the nearest star to our solar system. Found using the European Southern Observatory’s Very …
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The Most Accurate Virtual Representation of the Universe’s Evolution
Helmed by the University of Helsinki, a simulation named “Sibelius-Dark” produced the most accurate virtual representation of the universe’s development to date. It captures the Big Bang to the present, reproducing the …
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Merger of Two Black Holes Predicted
Astronomers are watching two highly eccentric black holes in a “gravitational tango” that might result in them merging—an event that astronomers have predicted but have never witnessed before. The cosmic incident could …
Via theguardian.com
The International Space Station Will Plunge Into The Ocean in 2030
Over 30 years after its 1998 launch, the International Space Station—which has been in low-Earth orbit and inhabited by astronauts from NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe) and CSA …
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