For the second time this year, experts can only glimpse and wait as two large .bases come close to a potentially colliding course in low-Earth orbit. An old, discarded Chinese rocket stage and a failed Russian military satellite are scheduled to pass within 12 meters (40 feet) of each other …
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Just because Earth is a place known for harboring life, doesn’t mean it’s the best planet for a job. Somewhere outside the universe, another orbiting object may be in a better position to support object life, and it may not feel like our own. “We have to focus on some …
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An unusually large and powerful eruption of an ice-covered gravitational volcano on Iceland in 2011 sent 20 kilometers of ash into the atmosphere, canceling about 900 passenger flights. In comparison, about 100,000 flights were canceled in 2010 due to very small explosions in Izzafallajukul. Understandably, any mention of another volcanic …
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With the Kovid-19 epidemic coming after the wave in many parts of the world, researchers have given a new look at the tiny coronavirus responsible for the massive chaos. Each SARS-Co-2 virus particle – virion – is a speckled protein ball, enclosing the genetic material, about 50-200 nanometers wide. Somehow, …
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Germangendra is like the earth surrounded, but the whole galaxy has been rinsed. A huge, high-velocity stream of gas is wrapped around the Milky Way, about 200,000 light-years away, most of the way. We know where it comes from, more or less. It is very closely linked to the large …
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