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Hubble Website Shows You What was Photographed on Your Birthday
The chances are that with us all being told to stay at home that the internet is currently one of your main sources of entertainment. If astronomy is one of your interests, however, then a new website launched by NASA might just be perfect for you! Allowing users to select…
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Blood Moon To Appear In The Skies Tonight!
Blood Moon To Appear In The Skies Tonight! Tonight will mark one of the more spectacular occasions in terms of astronomy. In the night’s sky, we will be treated to the longest ‘blood moon‘ we have seen so far in the 21st century. That is, of course, assuming you have…
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New Trailer for Cosmos Season 2 Explores Alien Worlds
New Space Voyage Beyond The San Diego Comic Con 2018 is a haven for nerds of all types. So even though it is not strictly sci-fi related, the event is the perfect opportunity to debut the new Cosmos trailer. Dubbed ‘Possible Worlds’, the second season reboot of Carl Sagan’s original…
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Astronomers Discover 12 More Moons Orbiting Around Jupiter
More Moons for Jupiter Astronomy researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science recently announced their discovery of 12 additional moons orbiting Jupiter. This brings up the total number of Jupiter’s natural satellites to a whopping 79, by far the largest of any planet in our solar system. Only 16 are…
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Green Moon Spreading Across The Internet Is A Hoax
Green Moon The internet is well known for being the source of several hoaxes in recent years. Most common of these is the announcement of a celebrities death. One of the more recent trends which have been circulating the internet, however, is the notification that we will have a green…
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Second Season of COSMOS Arriving Spring 2019
The 2014 reboot of the Carl Sagan classic Cosmos: A SpaceTime Oddysey is now officially getting a second season. Moreover, the series original producer Seth McFarlane and host top astrophysicist personality Neil deGrasse Tyson will return. As well as much of the same creative team along with executive producers Brannon…
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Massive Black Hole Photographed Reportedly ‘Burping’ Light
Black Hole Burping Black holes have always amazed me and I’m someone who knows very little about astronomy. I do, however, know enough not to call it astrology, but it is one of those deliberate mistakes you can make to annoy your really geeky friends. Personally, I’ve often wondered how…
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Alien Megastructure Might Not Be So Alien After All
Over the past two years, astronomers have been fascinated by strange light readings from a distant star. The Kepler space telescope observed KIC 8462852 – aka Boyajian’s Star or Tabby’s Star – dimming by up to 20% over just a few days. In other words, KIC 8462852 was doing some…
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Astronomers Freak Out Over “Return” of Mysterious Alien Megastructure
A strange star that may be orbited by a large, potentially-artificial structure is misbehaving again, and astronomers are alarmed. Back in October 2015, we reported that the star – KIC8462852, situated between Cygnus and Lrya – was exhibiting massive light dips. The prevailing hypothesis of its cause was a possible…
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NASA Discovers Seven Earth-Like Exoplanets
US astronautics organisation NASA has announced that it has found seven exoplanets orbiting a single star which are of of comparable size to Earth; three of the planets have orbits within what is known as the Goldilocks zone – which means possessing an orbit which may be capable of sustaining…
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NASA Plans Quadrillion-Dollar Asteroid Mining Mission
NASA has unveiled an ambitious plan to voyage to one of our most intriguing local, metal-rich asteroids. 16 Psyche is located within the Solar system – one of many asteroids in the belt between Mars and Jupiter – and may be the remnants of a long-lost planet, impact-blasted down to…
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Scientists Admit Radio Signals “Probably from Extraterrestrial Intelligence”
In a newly published paper, a team of scientists has admitted that anomalies detected from a number of different stars are “signals probably from extraterrestrial intelligence,” explaining that the signals “have exactly the shape of a signal predicted in the previous publication and are therefore in agreement with this [extraterrestrial…
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Scientists Propose Independent “Space Nation” – Become a Citizen Now
A team of scientists, lawyers, and engineers have launched a proposal for a new “space nation,” tasked with creating a new universal space law and protecting the Earth from stellar threats. Named after the mythical realm of the Gods in Norse mythology, Asgardia will be an “independent platform free from…
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“Out of Control” Chinese Space Lab Falling to Earth
Chinese space lab Tiangong-1 is set to fall to Earth next year after the nation’s space authority admitted that it had lost control of the 8.5-tonne orbital station. Tiangong-1, which means “Heavenly Palace”, was China’s first space station, launched back in 2011, and marked the beginning of the country’s new…
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SETI Detects “Strong” Radio Signal From Nearby Star
A radio telescope in Russia, affiliated with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), has detected a “strong signal” emanating from a nearby star. While the chances that the signal – detected coming from the star HD164595, which is 95 light years from Earth – originates from intelligent alien life are…
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