The Hubble Space Telescope has spent the past 30 years orbiting 547 km (340 miles) above Earth. The old satellite has had a couple of problems in the past few years, but amazing photos of our cosmic courtyard have yet to be taken. For example, earlier this month, Hubble flexed …
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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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Instead of spamming your newsfeed with a steady stream of news about coronavirus, we’re going to take a page out of our sister site’s book and instead create a single page that we will update as the news arrives. Here’s everything we’ve dropped into the inbox so far: July 17th– …
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NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are releasing new images of the sun on Thursday morning, bringing humans closer to our host star than ever before. The photos are the first captured by Solar Orbiter, which was released earlier this year. After its launch on February 9, Solar Orbiter …
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Columns of dust are a natural phenomenon, part of the Earth’s nutrient cycle. They occur when high-speed winds pick up small dry particles from the Earth’s surface and transport them over long distances. Every summer, columns of dust from the Sahara desert in Africa cross the Atlantic Ocean. They are …
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