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Sun Unleashes Monster Solar Flare, Biggest of 2014
The sun erupted with a major solar flare on Tuesday (Feb. 25), an X4.9 solar flare that is the biggest sun storms of the year.
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Water Found in Atmosphere of Nearby Alien Planet
Water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of one of the first alien planets ever identified by astronomers, scientists announced.
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NASA's Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds
NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system.
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Black Hole Spotted in Nearby Galaxy Marks Another Discovery for Astronomy
M83, a nearby spiral galaxy, has recently provided astronomers and scientists with exciting new information. The latest it has to offer is a detailed black hole named MQ1, which Australian astronomers found earlier this week.
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NASA's Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-On Collision
The Milky Way is destined to get a major makeover during an encounter with the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to happen 4 billion years from now.
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'Black Widow' Star Consumes Cosmic Companion (Video)
A fast-spinning star destroys its companion, much as a black widow spider consumes its mate.
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Incredible Technology: Space 'Harpoons' Could Snatch Samples of Asteroids and Moons
Why bother landing softly on an alien world to collect samples if you can just snag material with a harpoon from afar? Using a set of long-lined, hard-hitting harpoons would allow a mission to grab large samples from multiple locations on an asteroid or moon — and to get them from beneath the surface, where some of the most interesting material lies, say researchers developing the idea.
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Hubble witnesses an asteroid mysteriously disintegrating
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the never-before-seen break-up of an asteroid, which has fragmented into as many as ten smaller pieces. Although fragile comet nuclei have been seen to fall apart as they approach the Sun, nothing like the breakup of this asteroid, P/2013 R3, has ever been observed before in the asteroid belt.
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Fireball turns the night sky blue as it explodes over Yellowknife
the fireball was a meteor 1m in size.
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Nearly Every Star Hosts at Least One Alien Planet
The vast majority of stars in our Milky Way galaxy host planets, many of which may be capable of supporting life as we know it, a new study suggests. Astronomers have detected eight new exoplanet candidates circling nearby red dwarf stars, which make up at least 75 percent of the galaxy's 100 billion or so stars.
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Alien moons could bake dry from young gas giants' hot glow
When we think of where else life might exist in the universe, we tend to focus on planets. But on a grander cosmic scale, moons could prove the more common life-friendly abode.
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Hunt Is On for 'Rogue' Black Holes
Hundreds of “rogue” wandering black holes may dwell in the Milky Way – and now Harvard University researchers say they know how to detect them. The discovery of these strange objects could shed light on the formation of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
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Largest ever yellow star is monstrous 1300 times bigger than sun
A monster version of our sun has been found, the largest known member of the family of yellow stars to which our sun belongs. The whopper sun emits light in similar wavelengths as our sun but its diameter is over 1300 times larger. That means it would engulf all the planets between Mercury and Jupiter if placed at the centre of our solar system. The star's size also means it is touching its smaller, companion star...
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The Search for Aliens Is Just Getting Started
Seth Shostak, SETI senior astronomer, tells PopMech why it's no surprise our search for alien life has so far come up emptyand why, if there really is intelligent life out there, we'll find it within the next few decades.
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Wrinkled Mercury's shrinking history
The planet Mercury is about 7km smaller today than when its crust first solidified over four billion years ago. The innermost world has shrunk as it has cooled over time, its surface cracking and wrinkling in the process. Scientists first recognised the phenomenon when the Mariner 10 probe whizzed by the planet in the mid-1970s. But the latest images from the US space agency's Messenger satellite have enabled researchers to refine their estimate for the amount of contraction.
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Detection of Waves in Space Buttresses Landmark Theory of Big Bang
Astronomers looking back 13.8 billion years found ripples in the fabric of space-time that support the theory of a universe being wrenched violently apart around its inception.
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Time-Lapse: Exploring the Cosmic Dawn
Scientists are getting an unprecedented view of the early universe with the help of ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. This group of antennae is the equivalent of a city-size telescopic lens, bringing cosmic nurseries for planets and stars into view.
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Star Survives Supernova Blast to the Face
If you think you're having a bad day, spare a thought for the surviving star in a binary system after its stellar neighbor detonates as a powerful supernova.
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Buddha's World of the Arts and Beyond: Surgeon And Preeminent Alien Implant Proponent Roger Leir Dies
Come on in and see the wonders that await!! The mind's eye of an artist sprinkled with explosive knowledge to arouse the senses!!
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Discovery could point to a new planet in our solar system
Astronomers have discovered what they believe to be a planetoid orbiting the sun that has never been seen before.The New York Times reports that the planetoid, dubbed VP113, lies beyond Neptune and even further past the icy ring known as the Kuiper Belt. The planetoid was originally spotted in 2012 by Dr. Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC and his colleagues, and is estimated to measure about 250 miles wide.
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