The image above may look like a fairly normal picture of the night sky, but what you see is much more special than just the shining stars. Each of these white dots is an active supermassive black hole. And each of those black holes lifts the material into the heart …
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Space rocks crashed on Earth containing compounds formed billions of years ago. Spaceships fancy fancy in the air but explode when they touch down too quickly. And sometimes, the iguana falls from the tree and the belly of the ground, settling on the ground. Here is a list of seven …
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About 800 years ago in 1226 the two planets were visually “arranged” in the night sky. It was a coincidence of Jupiter and Saturn. In a rare event, they appeared very close together with one-half of the apparent width of the moon. This happened on March 4, 1226 – just …
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In April 1990, our universe opened up to us in a whole new way. At the same time that the Hubble Space Telescope was launched and deployed, the most powerful space telescope ever was built. Although the tool started out with difficulty, Hubble has been in operation for a full …
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa (KCRG) – KCRG-TV9 received several phone calls and messages from viewers on Friday evening saying they were seeing a long line of lights in the sky west of our viewing area. The good news: they are not UFOs! After a brief investigation, we decided that the lights …
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