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Built in the early 1960s to study the Earth's ionosphere, the Arecibo Observatory's 305 m radio dish was the largest in the world until 2015. Upgrades through the years made it a useful platform for studying our solar system, as well as stars and other objects beyond it.
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Xinhua Photos of the Day - Xinhua | English.news.cn
A Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-5 spacecraft, blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern island province of Hainan, Nov. 24, 2020. China on Tuesday launched a spacecraft to collect and return samples from the moon, the country's first attempt to retrieve samples from an extraterrestrial body. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
Puerto Rico’s huge Arecibo radio telescope to close; a blow to search for planets,
Utah monolith: Helicopter crew discovers mysterious metal monolith deep in the desert - CNN
(CNN) What started as routine wildlife assistance took an extraterrestrial turn for Utah's Department of Public Safety after officers stumbled upon a mysterious monolith in the middle of rural Utah.
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China launches its first mission to return Moon samples : The Tribune India
The Long March-5 Y5 rocket, carrying the Change-5 lunar probe, takes off from Wenchang Space Launch Center, in Wenchang, Hainan province, China. (REUTERS/Tingshu Wang)
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China on Tuesday launched a spacecraft to collect and return samples from the Moon, the country's first attempt to retrieve samples from an extraterrestrial body.
A Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-5 spacecraft, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern island province of Hainan at 4:30 am (Beijing Time).
The Weirdest Objects in the Universe | Space | Air & Space Magazine
NASA recently awarded a grant to a SETI project that will seek out signs of alien “technosignatures,” such as solar panel arrays on distant exoplanets. Breakthrough Listen, the largest SETI initiative to date, is thinking even bigger, searching for sophisticated engineering projects that span entire star systems or even galaxies (see “Signs,” Feb./Mar. 2019).
Earlier this year, to help locate possible targets for future searches—whether for signals or artifacts—Breakthrough Listen released the first cut of its Exotica Catalog, a listing of almost 800 astronomical objects. Most of the catalog is a “one-of-everything” compilation, from rocky planets to blue-straggler stars. A smaller section lists the superlatives: the biggest, the hottest, the brightest, the farthest.
Fr. Glenn: The Ultimate Ocean
Increasingly common, too, is highlighting news of extreme events or injustices, and presenting such behaviors as the norm throughout society … thereby garnering even more "hits" via by outrage, but consequently feeding the fires of societal division. For example, the recent riots in several, but comparatively few, cities likely involved only a minute fraction of one percent of the national population—the "squeaky wheel" gleaning the media grease.
In the main, however, the vast majority of people do not tend toward extreme positions or behavior (otherwise those positions, by definition, would no longer be "extreme", after all). Most people are simply middle-of-the-road, go-to-work/school-every-day folks, often finding themselves shaking their heads at the "lamentable" state of the nation.
In conversation: UC's 2020 Nobel Prize winners on changing the world through scientific discovery
UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., and UC Board of Regents Chair John A. Pérez invite you to a virtual event:
UC's 2020 Nobel Prize winners on changing the world through scientific discovery
Thursday, December 3, 2020
1:00 – 2:00 PM P.T.
Learn how UC is cultivating a culture of opportunity and discovery, supporting women in science, and fostering the next generation of innovators.
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Reinhard Genzel
Professor emeritus of physics, UC Berkeley, and director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
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