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- From Around the Web, Space
- September 3, 2020
Astronomers using the twin LIGO detectors located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, and the Virgo detector located near Pisa, Italy, have detected gravitational waves from the most massive binary black hole merger ever discovered. The two spinning black holes merged when the Universe was only about 7 billion years old, which is roughly half its present age, and formed a larger black hole weighing a whopping 142 times the mass of the Sun — a so-called intermediate-mass black hole.
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- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 1, 2019
The revolutionary prosthesis is a nod to Luke Skywalker.
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- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
Forty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter’s 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing the moon’s icy surface, which give Europa the look of a veiny eyeball. Missions to the outer solar system in the decades since have amassed enough additional information about Europa to make it a high-priority target of investigation in NASA’s search for life.
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- From Around the Web, Space
- August 10, 2019
The solar probe is helping us understand the effects of solar on Earth and other planets.
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- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- August 10, 2019
A fascinating video has emerged showing colorized footage of the last known Tasmanian tiger.
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- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 14, 2020
New insights into flight could pave the way for more nimble aerial robots
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