It is common knowledge that the Sun is the center of the Solar System. Around him, planets orbit, along with a thick asteroid belt, a few meteor fields, and a handful of far distant comets. But that is not the whole story. “Instead, everything orbits around the center of mass …
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Astronomers have detected a dazzling flash of ultraviolet light from an exploding white dwarf for the second time, and could give researchers important clues as to what stimulates the disappearance of these ancient worn-out stars. The researchers noticed this unusual supernova, called SN2019yvq, last December, just one day after the …
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This stunning image captured last year by physicists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland is the first photo of quantum entanglement, a phenomenon so bizarre that physicist Albert Einstein described it as a “ creepy action at a distance. ” It may not sound like much, but just stop …
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In the early days of the Solar System, baby Earth may have taken much less time to form than we previously thought. According to an analysis conducted in February 2020, there is evidence that most of the Earth took only 5 million years to come together, several times longer than …
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If a surgeon came to the operating room wearing a mask they had made that morning with a dish cloth, they would probably be fired. This is because equipment used for important tasks, such as surgery, must be tested and certified to ensure compliance with specific standards. But anyone can …
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