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Scientists Discuss Sun Lifespan and What Happens After
Scientists Believe They Know When the Sun will Die and What will Happen After Experts have always roughly been in agreement that in terms of size, our Sun will finally die (or explode) in around 10 billion years. That is quite clearly a long time. As such, in terms of…
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Wikiverse Shows What The Universe of Wikipedia Looks Like
Wikipedia is often regarded as the pinnacle of all human knowledge, with people creating and updating articles all over the world. With so much knowledge, how do you see and understand even the titles let alone the content? Well, one clever little extension is hoping to let you view Wikipedia as…
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Star Trek Beyond Trailer Destroys Yet Another Enterprise
To boldly go where no director has gone before… just kidding. When it comes to Star Trek, it wouldn’t be a new film if the ship remained intact for the entire film, and the new trailer for Star Trek Beyond seems to show the beloved space fairing ship get destroyed…
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Planet With Three Suns Discovered
Astrophysicists have discovered a distant planet that has not one, not two, but three suns in its sky. While the Jupiter-sized world, named KELT-4Ab, orbits a single star (KELT-A), its system is within close proximity of a binary star, containing KELT-B and KELT-C, which circle each other as part of…
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Astronomers Observe Exploding Star for the First Time
For the first time ever, astronomers have recorded the moment at which a star started to explode – known as the “shock breakout” – within the optical wavelength of NASA’s Kepler space telescope. The astronomy team, led by Peter Garnavich, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame in…
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Reflective Russian Satellite to be Brightest ‘Star’ in the Sky
When you look up at the night sky, the brightest thing you will see is likely to be the Moon. However, a team of Russian engineers want to ensure that the second brightest object isn’t just any other star billions of miles away, but a man-made object! After reaching their…
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Are Aliens Building Their Own Starkiller Base?
Back in October, we brought you the story of a curious star which may be displaying evidence of an alien presence. The star, KIC8462852, positioned between the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra, was observed through the Kepler Space Telescope exhibiting massive dips in its light output – incomparable to any…
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Have You Played These Star Wars Games?
The tales of love, war and pain have echoed for generations, both through the fans of the star wars series and even the world as a whole (we all know the “I am your father line”). Most movies these days get a video game tie-in. something which runs alongside or…
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Our Galaxy’s Strangest Star Could Have Alien Craft in Orbit
There is a star, positioned between the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra, which has astronomers in a tizz. When viewed through the Kepler Space Telescope, this particular star exhibits strange properties; the telescope observed huge dips in light levels from the star, notable because they could not be explained by…
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Gift Cards At Discounts? Maybe Not For Star Citizen
Star Citizen is a game we’ve reported on many times. The game started as an idea and took to the crowdfunding platform to support its big dreams of being a Space Fighter, First Person Shooter and Role Playing game all while allowing thousands of players to interact with one another.…
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Star Wars BB-8 Drone Now Avaliable For Purchase
Star Wars has been a big franchise for many years now, and with the recent trailer announcing the new few movies fans have been up in arms about two aspects from the trailer. Firstly the cross guard light saber, a fun little addition with a dark red blade that, if…
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Beam Me Up: Star Trek Communicators Are Now A Thing!
So most people have seen Star Trek, in one form or another the series has helped shaped everything from television to science fiction as a whole. With alien species planning to take over the universe and rogue admirals breaking laws and rules left right and centre the show has helped…
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Spoiler Alert: Star Wars Creates Waves with Han solo
With the new instalment of the Star Wars series coming out later this year, Disney had to find a way of somehow tying in the older cast into the newer films. This will most likely come in a multitude of ways, primarily comics and TV spin-offs. In the recent launch…
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‘May the 4th be With You’
Calling all Star Wars fans, you know what you’re getting into here. Lucasarts has announced a new deal ready for the unofficial Star Wars day; ready? They plan on re-introducing some of the classic games onto the PC with previously announced partner Good Old Games (GOG.com) and new partner, Steam.…
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Daniel Radcliff Set to Star in Upcoming Grand Theft Auto Movie
Daniel Radcliffe, widely known for his role in the Harry Potter movies, is reportedly undergoing talks with BBC TV officials to get the lead role in an upcoming Grand Theft Auto inspired movie. Before everyone gets overly excited expecting to see a lot of explosions, excessive drug use or whatever…
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