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[ad_1] The end of an era came unexpectedly this week when Puerto Rico’s iconic Arecibo Telescope collapsed on December 1 exactly one month after its 57th birthday. And it just so happens that everything was captured in spectacular drone footage that you can see here right now. Drone footage of …

[ad_1] An empty street in Tehran, image via Wikimedia Commons BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1.838, December 4, 2020 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The low number of protesters who took to the streets of Iran in response to the Mohsen assassination Fakhrizadeh, as well as other forms of evidence reveal that the …

[ad_1] A starry sky over the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Credit: University of Central Florida The instrument platform of the 305-meter telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico fell at approximately 7:55 a.m. Atlantic Standard Time on December 1, causing damage to the dish and surrounding facilities. No …

[ad_1] Xinhua Photo taken at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing on Dec.3, 2020, shows the ascendant of the Chang’e-5 spacecraft taking off from the lunar surface. A Chinese spacecraft carrying the country’s first lunar samples lifted off from the Moon at 11:10 p.m. (Beijing time) on Thursday, the …

[ad_1] The map measures stars closer to the edge of the Milky Way than ever. YouTube / ESA You can’t just drive a google maps car around the Milky Way to diagram it. It is fortunate, then, that the new information compiled by the European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory offers …

[ad_1] Anthem BioWare Something quite wild seems to have happened at BioWare, as two giant figures, Casey Hudson and Mark Darrah, suddenly left the studio. Mass Effect’s Hudson had already left once and returned, while Darrah has been directing Dragon Age for years, including the upcoming Dragon Age 4. The …

[ad_1] Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed 3D map of the Milky Way yet, which could shed new light on the galaxy and the universe beyond. The Gaia observatory of the European Space Agency has been observing the universe since 2013. The map contains enough new detail that astronomers can …

[ad_1] The Arecibo Observatory’s radio telescope collapsed Tuesday morning when its 900-ton suspended platform crashed into the massive dish below. Arecibo was one of the best radio astronomy tools on Earth for 57 years. His death is a blow to asteroid tracking efforts and the search for extraterrestrial life. Photos …

[ad_1] A United Nations commission voted to reclassify cannabis as a less dangerous drug, recognizing the plant’s medical value and paving the way for greater therapeutic use of the drug internationally. The 27-25 vote of the Vienna-based UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs was based on the 2019 recommendations of the …

[ad_1] It took 17 seconds to The huge Arecibo radio telescope will collapse. The dust will take much longer to settle. The structure collapsed on December 1 after cable failures in August and November made the telescope too delicate to repair safely. The US National Science Foundation (NSF), which owns …