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Google Maps Adds Planets and Moon for You to Explore
At the Sea of Tranquility, Turn left! Google Maps (or Earth if you prefer) has always been a fascinating program. Not least of which for opening up the world on a grand scale, but also the opportunity for us to explore, even on a street level, the planet in which…
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Hidden Planet Set to (maybe) Obliterate Earth on September 23rd
The End is (probably not) Nigh! Are you looking forward to your weekend? Planning on having a good time? Well, hopefully, you won’t let the apocalypse get in your way. Yes, another doomsday prediction is approaching. So, is it time to repent your sins or is this just another crackpot…
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NASA Launches Four New Teams to Explore Solar System
With recent discoveries like the seven Earth-like exoplanets found orbiting a distant star, it can be easy to forget that our own, humble Solar system is vast, exotic domain which remains mostly unexplored. Following a remit, compelled by Congress, to venture to Mars by 2033, NASA has announced that it…
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NASA Wants the Solar System to Have Access to the Internet
Who remembers when you had to unplug your home phone to get an internet signal or get that else you got that annoying busy tone on the computer? We then welcomed broadband and enjoyed faster speeds without having to unplug your phone and now you can get even faster internet…
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Even More Evidence Points to the Ninth Planet
Space is a very humbling thing, just once we think we’ve figured something out we realise there is something else we need to learn. Our very Solar System is an example of that with scientists now claiming that there’s even more proof to back up the evidence of a ninth…
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Watch This Amazing Journey From the Sun to Jupiter at the Speed of Light
Have you ever wondered how it’s like to travel through our solar system? Yeah, it may be boring and it may take years and years if you’re not travelling at the speed of light, but how about a virtual journey? If your answer is yes, then let animator Alphonse Swinehart…
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Space Probe Rosetta Is Operational After Being In Hibernation For 4 Years
An artists impression of space probe Rosetta rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko The space probe launched by The European Space Agency or ESA has sent its first transmission back to earth after 3 years of hibernation from over 800 million kilometers away. The probe named Rosetta sent its first signal to the ESA this…
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