When you look around you, almost anywhere on earth, you will see life. Earth seems to be an excellent helper of life: we have seen it in the air, in the water, in the land, and even in the deep underground. But was it inevitable? We know that there have …
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[Note: This post is an updated 2020 version of the viewing guide I wrote for a previous Geminid shower.] If you’re looking for a way to look amazing while cooling your butt together, am I doing a meteor shower for you: Geminids! This year (2020), the annual fountain December 13/14, …
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Late last year, the sun began a new cycle of activity. It started slowly, but there were a handful of sunspots in early 2020. Conveniently, Daniel K. Innoye Solar Telescope (or DKIST) began operations in the same period. And when you take a 4-meter telescope to the top of the …
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Remote camera and drone footage of the crash of the Ci Resibo Radio Telescope platform have just been released. The main 05-meter dish sat on the ground in a remote part of Puerto Rico, with a platform with 90,000 tons of receivers and other equipment suspended 150 meters above it. …
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Astronomers have discovered a small object in space that will pass through the Earth on December 1, 2020 by a small margin of only 50,000 km. Not only that, but the gravity of our planet will change its course so much, it will become the temporary moon of the earth! …
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