Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet of gas giants that formed roughly 160 million years ago and now glows pink. The large pink planet is several times the mass of Jupiter, but roughly the same size. The planet and its Sun-like star live about 57 light-years from Earth. With new …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration has filed a motion asking the court to file a lawsuit against the president’s executive order targeting social media companies, calling it a “deep misunderstanding” “, according to a copy of the motion seen by Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Facebook, Google and Twitter logos can …
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Russell Kirsch, a computer scientist who received credit for inventing the pixel and scanning the world’s first digital photo, died Aug. 11 at his home in Portland at the age of 91. Berch, born in Manhattan in 1929, was the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Hungary. Educated at …
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SPT0418-47 is gravitationally lensed by another galaxy, giving our telescopes an evil Eye or Sauron look. ALMA (ESO / NAOJ / NRAO) / Rizzo et al. Twelve billion years ago, then all space was just an adult baby universe, a young galaxy reminiscent of the Milky Way was fire to …
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Credit: University of Sheffield Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientists improved the technique for assessing the age of historical objects. The team of researchers at the universities of Sheffield, Belfast, Bristol, Glasgow, Oxford, St Andrews and Historic England, plus international …
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