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Hawaii telescope to play key role in mission to put artificial ‘star’ in orbit around Earth
Hawaii News Now· 3 days agoThe mission encompasses placing an artificial “star” in orbit around Earth, much like a satellite. Scientists will study the star to precisely calibrate telescopes and accurately ...
Scientists Intrigued by Signal From Space Repeating Every Hour
Futurism via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA repeating radio signal from deep space has scientists baffled because they can't fully explain...
"Once-in-a-lifetime" cosmic explosion is likely this summer, NASA says
CBS News· 2 days agoA rare eruption of light from a dead star will likely be visible to people on Earth this summer in a...
NASA telescope spots 'cosmic fireworks' and faint echos from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole
Space via Yahoo News· 18 hours ago"Both flares and fireworks light up the darkness and help us observe things we wouldn't normally be...
Watery planets orbiting dead stars may be good candidates for studying life -- if they can survive...
Science Daily· 1 day ago...White dwarfs are so small and so featureless, that if a terrestrial planet transited in front of them, you could actually do a much better job of characterizing its atmosphere," says University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomy professor Juliette Becker, lead author of the study, which is under...
‘Dyson spheres’ were theorized as a way to detect alien life. Scientists say they’ve found potential...
AccuWeather· 24 hours agoFreeman Dyson theorized that hypothetical alien megastructures would give off infrared radiation and...
RANSOMWARE ATTACK: County rushes to restore systems
The Record-Eagle, Traverse City, Mich. via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoJun. 14—TRAVERSE CITY — A day after a ransomware attack hit Grand Traverse County systems, both city and county officials said essential services are fully operational. Meanwhile, in the county's ...
Humans emerged thanks to Earth colliding with cold clouds, study suggests
Daily Telegraph· 4 days agoEarth passed through a giant interstellar cloud two million years ago which cooled the planet and...
Mysterious Origins: Polarized Light Transforms Our Understanding of Fast Radio Bursts
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoA study analyzing the properties of polarized light from 128 non-repeating FRBs reveals mysterious...
NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope captures closest super star cluster to Earth (image)
Space via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoThis gives astronomers a new population of stars in Westerlund 1 to study. That means, not only does...