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It’s 100 years since we learned the Milky Way is not the only galaxy

On Sunday November 23 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an intriguing article, amid several large adverts for fur coats. The headline read: Finds Spiral Nebulae are Stellar Systems: “Dr Hubbell Confirms View That They Are ‘Island Universes’;…

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To make nuclear fusion a reliable energy source one day, scientists will first need to design heat- and radiation-resilient materials

Fusion energy has the potential to be an effective clean energy source, as its reactions generate incredibly large amounts of energy. Fusion reactors aim to reproduce on Earth what happens in the core of the Sun, where very light elements merge and release energy in the process. Engineers can harness…

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Scientists have found carbon dioxide on Pluto’s largest moon – offering clues about how it formed

In the outer reaches of our Solar System, 5.7 billion kilometres from the Sun, lies the dwarf planet Pluto. Smaller than Australia, it is an icy world of mountains, glaciers and craters where the average temperature is –232°C.

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Not just space rocks: 6 things we’ve learned about Earth from meteorites and comets

Apart from the Sun, its planets and their moons, our Solar System has vast amounts of space rocks – fragments left over from the formation of the inner planets.

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Astronomers finally caught radio waves from 40 large galaxies in the nearby universe

Supermassive black holes reside in some of the biggest galaxies in the universe. They tend to be billions of times more massive that our Sun, and not even light itself can escape a black hole once it gets too close.

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Mercury: shrinking planet is still getting smaller – new research

Planetary scientists have long known that Mercury has been shrinking for billions of years. Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, its interior has been cooling down as internal heat leaks away. This means that the rock (and, within that, the metal) of which it is composed must have…

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A Strange, Old Asteroid Is Orbiting Our Sun — NASA’s New Psyche Mission Will Hunt For Its Origin

NASA will soon launch a spacecraft to the bizarre asteroid Psyche to better understand how it formed and why it's still here.

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What next for ISRO after Chandrayaan-3 mission?

ISRO has a packed schedule following the Chandrayaan-3 Lander landing, incl. Aditya-L1, INSAT-3DS, test vehicle mission for Gaganyaan, NISAR & two unmanned crew module missions. Aditya-L1 to study Sun, INSAT-3DS for climate observation, NISAR for mapping Earth's ecosystems & Gaganyaan to demonstrate human space flight.

The Hindu

Scientists Discover Distant Star 1 Billion Years After Big Bang

The celestial body, which the research team has dubbed Earendel, is located in the Sunrise Arc galaxy.

Zenger

'City killers' and half-giraffes: how many scary asteroids really go past Earth every year?

Asteroids are chunks of rock left over from the formation of our Solar System. Approximately half a billion asteroids with sizes greater than four metres in diameter orbit the Sun, travelling through our Solar System at speeds up to about 30 kilometres per second – about the same speed as…

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Mars: how we discovered two huge, unusual impact craters – and the secrets they unveil

Most of the worlds of our Solar System are pockmarked with impact craters. These bear testament to the violence of the early days of the Sun, when asteroids, comets and entire planets routinely collided with and annihilated each other.

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NASA Gears Up to Deflect Asteroid, in Key Test of Planetary Defense

NASA on Monday will attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spaceship launched from California…

Asharq Al-Awsat

'Time traveller' from 2906 claims zombie pig will escape lab and spread virus THIS YEAR

One TikTok user posted a video warning against an onslaught of 'undead' pigs and aliens - but the good news is that people could also receive superhuman powers from the Sun

Daily Mirror

Chilling simulation shows what will happen if Russia and US launched full nuclear war

The research said firestorms would release soot and smoke into the upper atmosphere that would block out the Sun, resulting in crop failure around the world

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A monster sunspot just doubled in size — and it's pointing right at Earth

Active Region 3038 (AR3038), a sunspot that happens to be facing Earth, could produce some minor solar flares.

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Aliens ‘could be common’ on planets orbiting stars similar to our sun, new study says

Discovery is based on observations of a young binary star 1,000 light years from Earth

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Starwatch: pre-dawn delight as moon meets Jupiter and Mars

Sweet spot will not last long as rapidly approaching sunrise will wash their light from the sky

Zenger

Dwarf Planet Ceres Was Formed In Coldest Zone Of Solar System And Thrust Into Asteroid Belt

NASA has uncovered the mystery of Ceres, a dwarf planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

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NASA and Boeing's Starliner plan to break a major space travel obstacle

In today's edition of Inverse Daily read about the Mars InSight lander, a Boeing Starliner launch, and a worrying pollution study.

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45 years later, scientists hone in on a mysterious alien signal's origin

A new study finds a few possible sources for the Wow! Signal, detected in 1977. The star, located 1,800 light years away, could be a good target for alien searches.

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Full Lunar Eclipse Brings Rare ‘Super Blood Moon’

One of our planet's most stunning sights came to the skies - a super blood Moon, reported BBC. In the year's only full lunar eclipse, Earth came between the Sun and the Moon. Falling fully into Earth's shadow, the Moon slowly darkened before turning dusky red. It was visible with…

Manchester Evening News

How to see rare 'super blood moon' in Greater Manchester tonight

The moon will appear as a large glowing red disk in the sky during the early hours of Sunday

Inverse

Once a year, we get closer to NASA's Voyagers — here's why

They aren't going backward — we're just going forward. Our orbit to the Sun makes us closer to our large adult sons.

Irish Mirror

Total lunar eclipse to be visible in Ireland next week as moon to turn 'deep blood red'

A lunar eclipse occurs when the Sun, Earth, and the Moon are aligned with the Earth in the middle

Inverse

This futuristic telescope would use Einsteinian physics to find Earth 2.0

The Sun could act as a big magnifier for finding out if a rocky planet has the right ingredients for life.

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