“It is a whole new world”: scientists detect mysterious black hole - The Hindu

This illustration provided by LIGO/Caltech in September 2020 depicts two black holes of about 66 and 85 solar masses spiralling into each other to form the GW190521 black hole.   | Photo Credit: AP

Scientists announced on Wednesday the discovery of a black hole — the oldest ever detected — that shouldn't even exist according to the current understanding of cosmic monsters so dense not even light can escape their gravitational pull.

Born of a merger between two other black holes, GW190521 weighs in at 142 times the mass of our Sun and is the first "intermediate mass" black hole ever observed, two consortiums of some 1,500 scientists reported in a pair of studies.

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Date: 2020-09-03T09:41:46 05:30

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Monster black hole discovered after scientists observe two smaller black holes colliding 7

The creation of a massive black hole, with a mass 142 times greater than the Sun, has been detected after two medium-sized black holes collided 7 billion years ago.

The largest known black hole collision was recorded while an international consortium of astronomers, including 16 from the Warsaw University Observatory and National Centre for Nuclear Research, were examining gravitational waves and detected four short wiggles passing through the Earth.

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Could a Black Hole Defy the Laws of Physics?

What do you know about black holes? Only what you learned in school? Well, get ready for some additional education because an old theory by Albert Einstein has just been proven about the weird dark stars in the universe.

Way back in the early 20th century (1916 to be exact), as part of his general theory of relativity, Einstein developed a theory about something called gravitational waves. In a nutshell, gravitational waves are what happens when two black holes collide with each other and cause a change in the curve of space-time.

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Date: 2020-09-18T12:37:11 x2B 00:00

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Exploring Black Holes, Where The Laws of Physics Breakdown : Short Wave : NPR

NASA visualization of what matter looks like as it falls into a black hole, a process known as accretion. Jeremy Schnittman/NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center hide caption

This episode was produced by Rebecca Ramirez, edited by Viet Le and fact-checked by Emily Vaughn.

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Date: 2020-09-02

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Found: A black hole: Flyover between Indiranagar and Koramangala is going nowhere

The contractor has completed only about 45 per cent of the work. The flyover requires 81 pillars. So far, only 67 pillars have been constructed

The 2.5-km stretch between Ejipura and Sony Signal is filled with potholes, broken footpaths and has no streetlights

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Fireworks in Lok Sabha as opposition & Modi govt lock horns on 'black hole' PM-CARES

New Delhi: There was high-voltage drama in the Lok Sabha Saturday as the opposition parties criticised the constitution of the PM-CARES fund for Covid-19, terming it a "black hole" and questioning the tax breaks and CSR tag given for donations to it.

The Modi government hit back by alleging that the Nehru-era Prime Minister's National Relief Fund (PMNRF) — another fund to be tapped for emergencies — has been misused by the Congress' Gandhi family.

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Date: 2020-09-19T16:29:55 00:00

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'Stupendously large' black holes could grow to truly monstrous sizes | Space

How big might black holes get? A team of scientists now suggests black holes could reach what they call "stupendously large" sizes, each harboring the mass of 100 billion suns or more.

Discovering such gargantuan black holes may shed light on the nature of a significant fraction of the mysterious dark matter that makes up four-fifths of the matter in the universe, the researchers said.

At the centers of most, if not all, galaxies are supermassive black holes with masses that are millions to billions of times that of Earth's sun. For instance, at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lies Sagittarius A*, which is about 4.5 million solar masses in size. 

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Date: 2020-09-18T17:44:04 00:00

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The Black Hole: Go Inside Las Vegas Raiders Football 3.0

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The moon has rust, thanks to the Earth

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When planetary geologist Shuai Li realized there were minerals containing iron oxide on the moon's surface, his first thought was, How did they get there? "Finding hematite is exciting," the University of Hawaii at Manoa researcher says, but he and his colleagues puzzled over its origin for a year. Iron oxide—better known as rust—is common on Earth, but solar wind's fire hose of protons reduces most species on the moon's surface, and oxygen is typically in short supply there.

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Sunrise at Copernicus crater: How to see the 'Monarch of the Moon' | Space

To the owner of a small telescope the moon is more interesting than anything else in the sky, because it's close enough to be seen really well. Even binoculars will show features on its surface. But you don't need a telescope to enjoy the moon.

On Thursday evening (Aug. 20), very low in the western sky, was a slender sliver of a crescent moon two days past new phase . This was a sky signal by which the ancients set their calendars. Astronomers have mapped the face of the moon by watching it over a period of time, as it waxes from new to full and wanes from full to old.

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Date: 2020-08-21T20:22:47 00:00

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The 1st Artemis astronauts on the moon may not visit the lunar south pole after all, NASA says |

For 18 months, NASA has focused on landing astronauts in 2024 near the moon's south pole, but that last piece of the directive may need to take a back seat if executing the mission gets too tricky, agency officials say.

The Artemis program landing site issue came up at two separate events with agency leaders this week, beginning with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine's comments to open a digital meeting held by a NASA advisory group called the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, on Monday (Sept. 14). 

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Date: 2020-09-18T17:37:27 00:00

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NASA to test precision automated landing system designed for the moon and Mars on upcoming Blue

Currently, NASA already uses automated landing for its robotic exploration craft on the surface of other planets, including the Perseverance rover headed to Mars. But a lot of work goes into selecting a landing zone with a large area of unobstructed ground that’s free of any potential hazards in order to ensure a safe touchdown. Existing systems can make some adjustments, but they’re relatively limited in that regard.

SPLICE is designed to enable more exact landings, and ones that can deal with more nearby hazards, enabling exploration in areas that were previously considered off-limits for landers. That could greatly expand our ability to gain more knowledge and better understanding of the moon and Mars, which is particularly important as we continue to work toward more human exploration and even potential colonization.

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Date: 2020-09-18 07:25:24

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4 places to buy mooncakes online for the Moon Festival - The Washington Post

People may be all about pumpkin spice lattes for fall, but for me, it's not complete without mooncakes.

Chinese people around the world eat them in celebration of the Moon Festival, or Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on Oct. 1 this year. The festival is all about "family reunions and expressing love to the faraway family members, friends and lovers," said Pu Wang, associate professor of Chinese literature, language and culture at Brandeis University. "The roundness, yuan, of the full moon then symbolizes a complete gathering, tuanyuan, of a loving family."

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The rarity of 2020's Halloween full moon - Deseret News

Because of the Metonic Cycle , a full moon appears in some parts of the world — but not most parts — on Halloween every 19 years. (In 2001, for example, the United States' Central and Pacific time zones experienced a Halloween full moon.) But after 1944, the Metonic Cycle shifted the full moon a day forward to Nov. 1 (in the years 1963, 1982 and 2001) for most locations, according to the Farmers' Almanac .

"Every time zone has it except those east of (GMT) +8 time zones if they have daylight time, or (GMT) +9 with no daylight time," astronomy educator Jeffrey Hunt wrote, according to CNET.

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Date: 2020-09-18T11:40:00-06:00

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New Moon In Virgo 2020: A Time For Reflection & Change

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Will this lander carry humans to the moon? Dynetics unveils lunar mock-up | Space

Dynetics has built a full-scale mock-up of the lander it hopes will soon be carrying NASA astronauts to the moon .

The Alabama-based company unveiled the model of its proposed human lunar lander on Tuesday (Sept. 15). The low-fidelity prototype — which includes a crew module, deployable solar arrays and propellant tanks for lunar descent and ascent — will be used to inform and refine the final lander design.

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That mission, broadly speaking, is NASA's Artemis program of crewed lunar exploration. Artemis aims to land two astronauts near the moon's south pole in 2024 and establish a permanent, sustainable human presence on and around Earth's natural satellite by 2028.

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Date: 2020-09-16T19:47:00 00:00

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Breakdown: Why we are watching an asteroid closely

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the sun. They are similar to planets but much smaller than planets. There are a lot of asteroids within our solar systems and most are located in an area between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, which is called the asteroid belt.

Asteroids have been making close encounters to earth for millions of years. Most asteroids disintegrate in the earth's atmosphere.

Lately, there has been some speculation about an asteroid called 2018 VP1 that could hit around election day. The asteroid was discovered on November 3, 2018 at an observatory in Southern California. VP1 was discovered as a faint new "near-Earth asteroid" which is an object whose orbit can approach, or intersect, that of our planet.

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Date: 2020-09-16T17:24:59.391Z

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Astronomers Have Discovered a Surprise Asteroid Orbiting Closer to The Sun Than Venus

Astronomers have painstakingly built models of the asteroid population, and those models predict that there will be ~1 km sized asteroids that orbit closer to the Sun than Venus does. The problem is, nobody's been able to find one. Until now.

Astronomers working with the Zwicky Transient Facility say they've finally found one. But this one's bigger, at about 2 km. If its existence can be confirmed, then asteroid population models may have to be updated.

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Asteroid 'bigger than London Bridge' to fly past Earth on Sept 17; all you need to know -

On September 17, while the new moon embraces the sky, a giant Asteroid 2014 QJ33 about the size of London Bridge will fly past the Earth. According to NASA's Centre for near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), the gigantic asteroid will come in close proximity of Earth and will pass through its orbit at a distance of 2.56 million kilometres, next week. Asteroid 2014 QJ33 is a near-Earth object ( NEO ) and is classified as the Apollo asteroid with a peak diameter of 110 metres.

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[NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California prepares to launch Psyche that will explore metal-rich asteroids. Credit: NASA]

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Mission set to collect sample from asteroid - Chinadaily.com.cn

China intends to carry out a mission to collect a sample from the smallest and closest "quasi-satellite" to Earth around 2025, said a key figure in the country's deep-space exploration program.

Zhang Rongqiao, chief designer of China's Mars exploration effort, said on Friday that Chinese space authorities have chosen the 2016 HO3, a small asteroid, as the target for the mission.

The preliminary idea is to use a large carrier rocket to send a probe, which will consist of two parts－an orbiter and a re-entry module, toward the asteroid, he said.

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Asteroid news: Space rock has 'very close but safe encounter' with Earth | Science |

A space rock known as 2020 RZ6 swung by our planet closer to us than the orbit of the Moon on the evening of September 17. The asteroid, which is up to 27 metres in length, flew by our planet at a distance of 340,000 kilometres, or 88 percent the distance of the Moon.

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Shortly after the image passed, the Virtual Telescope Project said: "Minutes ago, the near-Earth asteroid 2020 RZ6 had a very close, but safe, approach with our planet, reaching a minimum distance from the Earth of about 340000 km, 0.88 times the average distance of the Moon.

Publisher: Express.co.uk

Date: 2020-09-18T11:18:15 01:00

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Asteroid Watch 2020: ESA, Germany's OHB To Build Spacecraft For Planetary Defense Mission

Humanity's first attempt at deflecting an asteroid from its path by ramming a spacecraft into it will involve a joint effort by American and European to see if potentially devastating collisions with Earth can be averted.

The test-run of a pioneering planetary defense mission is called AIDA (Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment) involving an American and European spacecraft. The impactor spacecraft called DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) will attempt to slam into a tiny moonlet called Dimorphos, which orbits the asteroid 65803 Didymos, in 2022.

Publisher: International Business Times

Date: 2020-09-18T06:40:04-04:00

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Next target asteroid picked for Japan's Hayabusa2 probe | The Japan Times

The unmanned Hayabusa2 probe will explore the asteroid 1998KY26 after completing its current mission of delivering a capsule believed to be containing samples of sand from the asteroid Ryugu to Earth, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said Tuesday.

The probe is expected to reach 1998KY26, which is traveling between Earth and Mars, in July 2031. The asteroid is only about 30 meters in diameter, smaller than the roughly 900 meter diameter of Ryugu, and rotates about every 10 minutes, compared to about seven hours for Ryugu.

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Date: 2020-09-16T15:11:13 09:00

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Mars smallsat mission bumped from launch - SpaceNews

WASHINGTON — A smallsat mission to study the atmosphere of Mars is looking for a new ride after being removed as a secondary payload on the launch of a NASA asteroid mission.

The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or EscaPADE, mission, was one of three smallsat missions selected by NASA in 2019 for initial studies as part of the agency's Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program. EscaPADE features twin spacecraft that would orbit Mars to study how the planet's atmosphere interacts with the solar wind, and how those processes lead to the escape of gases from the atmosphere.

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Date: 2020-09-18T18:24:10 00:00

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Giant 'survivor' planet found orbiting dead star | Space | EarthSky

For the first time, astronomers have detected a planet orbiting a white dwarf star. If further confirmed, the discovery shows that some planets could survive the destruction of their sun-like stars, and some might even remain potentially habitable.

Artist’s concept of the Jupiter-sized planet WD 1856 b orbiting its white dwarf. Image via NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center.

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Here we report the observation of a giant planet candidate transiting the white dwarf WD 1856+534 (TIC 267574918) every 1.4 days. We observed and modeled the periodic dimming of the white dwarf caused by the planet candidate passing in front of the star in its orbit. The planet candidate is roughly the same size as Jupiter and is no more than 14 times as massive (with 95% confidence).

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Date: 2020-09-18T07:00:33-05:00

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Astronomers Have Discovered a 2-km Asteroid Orbiting Closer to the Sun than Venus - Universe Today

Astronomers have painstakingly built models of the asteroid population, and those models predict that there will be ~1 km sized asteroids that orbit closer to the Sun than Venus does. The problem is, nobody’s been able to find one. Until now.

Astronomers working with the Zwicky Transient Facility say they’ve finally found one. But this one’s bigger, at about 2 km. If its existence can be confirmed, then asteroid population models may have to be updated.

Publisher: Universe Today

Date: 2020-09-15T19:18:30-04:00

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First Possible 'Survivor' Planet Orbiting White Dwarf Star Found By NASA's TESS and Spitzer

Using data from NASA missions, an international team of astronomers has found what may be the first intact planet orbiting a white dwarf, the dense leftover of a Sun-like star, only 40 per cent larger than Earth.

The Jupiter-size object, called WD 1856 b, is about seven times larger than the white dwarf, named WD 1856+534. It circles this stellar cinder every 34 hours, more than 60 times faster than Mercury orbits our Sun.

"WD 1856 b somehow got very close to its white dwarf and managed to stay in one piece," said lead researcher Andrew Vanderburg, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US.

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Date: 2020-09-18T06:22:40.000Z

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First possible "survivor" planet orbiting a white dwarf seen via NASA telescopes -

An international team of astronomers utilizing NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and data obtained from the now-retired Spitzer space telescope have reported an astounding potential discovery of a surviving planet closely orbiting a white dwarf.

So what's the big deal? Scientists have found many exoplanets in close orbits of their parent stars.

Here's the confusing part: The way a white dwarf is created destroys nearby objects either by incineration or gravitational destruction.

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Date: 2020-09-16T17:44:30 00:00

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These Are The 50 Most Dangerous Objects Orbiting Earth Right Now

A group of experts has compiled a list of what they say are the most dangerous pieces of space junk in low Earth orbit today, noting that efforts should be undertaken to remove them as soon as possible before a disaster occurs.

The goal was to jointly decide which objects posed the biggest risk of creating large amounts of space junk were they to collide. Objects were rated on their chance of collision with other objects, along with their mass, altitude, and several other factors.

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Date: 2020-09-10

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Massive exoplanet found orbiting dwarf star, gives crucial insight for Sun's fate | Technology

According to the research paper published in the journal 'Nature' a massive newly found Exoplanet has been observed orbiting the white dwarf star. The planet is 80 light-years away in the constellation of Draco while the white dwarf star is 82 light-years away from the Earth.

An Exoplanet is a that planet which orbits any star except the sun. This surprising discovery seems to be depicting a glimpse of the sun, as the white dwarf star might have been a sun-like star but eventually turned into a minute-sized star which according to the researchers is 6 billion years old.

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Date: 2020-09-17T19:49:31 05:30

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Chandrayaan-2 Successfully Completes One Year of Orbiting the Moon | The Weather Channel

It is one year since India's second moon spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 was inserted into the lunar orbit, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Thursday. The Indian space agency said Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft/orbiter was launched on July 22, 2019 and inserted into lunar orbit on August 20, 2019.

Though the soft-landing attempt of the lander Vikram was not successful, the orbiter, which was equipped with eight scientific instruments, was successfully placed in lunar orbit.

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Date: 2020-08-21T03:38:12.000Z

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From star to solar system: How protoplanetary rings form in primordial gas clouds -- ScienceDaily

From star to solar system: How protoplanetary rings form in primordial gas clouds -- ScienceDaily

Four-hundred fifty light-years from Earth, a young star is glowing at the center of a system of concentric rings made from gas and dust, and it is producing planets, one for each gap in the ring.

Its discovery has shaken solar system origin theories to their core. Mayer Humi, a scientist from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, believes it provides an apt study target for theories about protoplanetary rings around stars. The research is published in the Journal of Mathematical Physics , by AIP Publishing.

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Announcement About Research on Venus's Chemistry – NASA Solar System Exploration

Features in the Venus's thick cloud cover visible in greater detail. The clouds seen here are located about 40 miles (60 kilometers) above the planet's surface, at altitudes where Earth-like atmospheric pressures and temperatures exist. They are comprised of sulfuric acid particles, as opposed to water droplets or ice crystals, as on Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | › Full image and caption

A paper about chemistry on Venus was published today in Nature Astronomy. NASA was not involved in the research and cannot comment directly on the findings; however, we trust in the scientific peer review process and look forward to the robust discussion that will follow its publication.

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Date: 2020-09-14 10:45:21 -0700

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Sunrises Across the Solar System - Universe Today

Scientists have learned a lot about the atmospheres on various worlds in our Solar System simply from planetary sunrises or sunsets. Sunlight streaming through the haze of an atmosphere can be separated into its component colors to create spectra, just as prisms do with sunlight. From the spectra, astronomers can interpret the measurements of light to reveal the chemical makeup of an atmosphere.

At sunrises and sunsets, the Sun's rays stream through a thicker layer of the atmosphere at an oblique angle, providing more details and data – and sometimes a burst of color from the scattering of light, called Rayleigh scattering.

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Date: 2020-09-16T13:05:19-04:00

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COVID-19 Dreams, Synchronicity and Visitors from Another Solar System - Scientific American

Have you been sleeping well this year? If not, you're not alone. Nightmares about COVID-19—fears of being in crowded spaces, touching germy surfaces, feeling exposed without a mask—have been disturbing the sleep of people around the world. The pandemic seems to have introduced a new shared unreality, with dreams that are as alarming as that one about being late for a final exam you haven't studied for.

When a bizarre object zipped through our solar system in late 2017, astronomers quickly realized it was from out of this world. ‘Oumuamua is the first object from another solar system to be detected in ours. We call it an object because nobody really knows what it is—it's kind of comet-ey, kind of asteroid-ey, and according to a few theorists, it's not entirely unlike an alien ship. (In general, whenever somebody says, “Maybe it's aliens,” it's never aliens.

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Meteorites bring information about the early solar system - The Science Show - ABC Radio National

Meteorites are often the size of a grape or an apple when they hit the Earth's surface, but they bring with them a large amount of information about the early days of the solar system. This explains why scientists are so keen to find them. The Desert Fireball Network based at Curtin University is a group of scientists dedicated to tracking and recovering meteorites.

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Ellie Sansom
Researcher in Planetary Science
Space Science and Technology Centre
Curtin University
Perth WA
Manager of The Australian Desert Fireball Network and Global Fireball Observatory

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Meteorites Show Transport of Material in Early Solar System | UC Davis

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How Scientists Around the World Track the Solar Cycle | NASA

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Date: 2020-09-14T19:21-04:00

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Meteorite study calls into doubt a popular theory about the early solar system

"Meteorites provide us with the earliest history of ourselves," said Professor Yuji Sano from the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute at the University of Tokyo. "This is what fascinated me about them. By studying properties, such as radioactive decay products, of meteorites that fell to Earth, we can deduce when they came and where they came from. For this study we examined meteorites that came from Vesta, the second-largest asteroid after the dwarf planet Ceres."

Sano and his team found evidence that Vesta was hit by multiple impacting bodies around 4.4 billion to 4.15 billion years ago. This is earlier than 3.9 billion years ago, which is when the late heavy bombardment (LHB) is thought to have occurred. Current evidence for the LHB comes from lunar rocks collected during the Apollo moon missions of the 1970s, as well as other sources.

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Venus is a Russian planet -- say the Russians - CNN

(CNN) No longer confined to territories here on Earth, Russia has now staked its claim on Venus , saying it is a "Russian planet."

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Date: 2020-09-18T17:12:59Z

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NASA Missions Spy First Possible 'Survivor' Planet Hugging White Dwarf | NASA

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Date: 2020-09-15T16:42-04:00

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Check Out How Big the Planets and the Moon Will be in Our Sky Over the Next Two Years - Universe

Everything in space is moving. Galaxies collide and merge, massive clouds of gas migrate, and asteroids, comets, and rogue planets zip around and between it all. And in our own Solar System, the planets follow their ancient orbits.

Now a new data visualization shows us just how much our view from Earth changes in two years, as the orbits of the planets change the distance between us and our neighbours.

The video comes from Dr. James O’Donoghue. He’s a planetary scientist, formerly of NASA and currently with JAXA. According to his website, he specializes “in ground-based astronomy of giant planet upper atmospheres, in particular Jupiter, Saturn and exoplanets.”

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Date: 2020-09-17T13:44:43-04:00

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'Diamond planets' could exist in the universe, new research confirms - Business Insider

On Earth, diamonds are considered precious partly because they're fairly rare: The planet's diamond content is about .001%. 

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The researchers behind the finding, a team from Arizona State University and the University of Chicago, found that under high-heat, high-pressure conditions like those found inside the Earth, certain planets may be making vast quantities of diamonds beneath their surfaces. So much so, in fact that they're primarily made of the material. 

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Date: 2020-09-17

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How to see Uranus in the night sky (without a telescope) this week | Space

Just how many planets are visible without a telescope? Not including our own planet, most people will answer "five" (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn).

Those are the five brightest planets, but in reality, there is a sixth planet that can be glimpsed without the aid of either a telescope or binoculars.

That sixth planet is the planet Uranus . This week will be a fine time to try and seek it out, especially since it is now favorably placed for viewing in our late-evening sky and the bright moon is out of the way.

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Date: 2020-09-11T19:03:24 00:00

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Hubble Captures Crisp New Portrait of Jupiter's Storms | NASA

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Carbon-rich alien planets could be made of diamonds | Space

With the right conditions like the presence of water heat and pressure, exoplanets with high concentrations of carbon could turn into diamonds, scientists found in a new study. These exoplanets could also form silica, an oxide of silicon that is found as quartz in nature, the researchers added

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"These exoplanets are unlike anything in our solar system," lead author Harrison Allen-Sutter, a graduate associate at Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration, said in a statement . 

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Date: 2020-09-15T17:00:52 00:00

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