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  • Charon at 40: Four Decades of Discovery on Pluto’s Largest Moon

    The largest of Pluto’s five moons, Charon, was discovered 40 years ago today by James Christy and Robert Harrington at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona – only about six miles from where Pluto itself was discovered at Lowell Observatory. They weren’t even looking for satellites of Pluto – Christy was trying to refine Pluto’s orbit around the Sun.

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  • UFO traverses night sky over western Russia

    A UFO in the form of a ball of light slowly traversed the night sky over the western Russian city of Lipetsk before exploding in mid-air. The mystery object’s flight was caught on camera by a number of eyewitnesses.

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  • It’s UFO Day! Here’s What We Know So Far

    Yesterday was UFO day and we still don’t know much about UFOs and extraterrestrial life. From why aliens might be unable to take on space travel to how some life on Earth might have originated from outer space, this is what we know so far about alien life in the universe.

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  • US scientists create metallic hydrogen on Earth ending 80-year quest for ‘holy grail of high-pressure physics’

    US scientists have succeeded in squeezing hydrogen so intensely that it has turned into a metal, creating an entirely new material that might be used as a highly efficient electricity conductor at room temperatures.

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