The farthest known object in the solar system has been confirmed. Farfaurot, a giant rock found at a distance of about 132 astronomical units from the Sun in 2018, has been studied and characterized, and now we know a lot more about it and its orbit. It is around 400 …
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It has been twelve months since we counted the last minutes of 2019 and we have shouted ‘Happy New Year’ with joy. We were happily unaware of what was in store for us in the following days. For those who have lost their livelihood, their health or, most tragically, their …
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Any species that reaches the stars is drawn at its fingertips. Probably more than once. A NASA post on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website is an iconic reminder of the tragedy that occurred in our spacefaring history. “After being tracked by radar and chased by a helicopter, the …
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In 2008, something unique fell out of the sky over Sudan, spreading across fragments in the vast and arid regions of the Nubian Desert. From above, this hurtful thing was known as Almahata Sita: a collection of about 600 meteorite fragments, which researchers worked hard to recover, and got its …
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Improving the efficiency of solar cells can make a big difference in the amount of energy from the same surface area and the same amount of sunshine, and has beaten another world record in the pressure to produce more. Researchers have now reached 29.15 percent efficiency in the Perovskite / …
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