Space
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Aliens may be more like us than we think | Sam Levin
Picture an alien. These illustrations represent different levels of adaptive complexity we might imagine when thinking about aliens. (a) A simple replicating molecule, with no apparent design. This ...
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Astronomers capture first visiting object from outside our solar system | Alan Fitzsimmons
Credit: Queen's University Belfast Oct. 27, 2017 (Phys.org) -- A Queen's University Belfast scientist is leading an international team in studying a new visitor to our solar system -- the first ...
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Small asteroid or comet 'visits' from beyond the solar system
A/2017 U1 is most likely of interstellar origin. Approaching from above, it was closest to the Sun on Sept. 9. Traveling at 27 miles per second (44 kilometers per second), the comet is headed away ...
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Artificial intelligence finds 56 new gravitational lens candidates | Carlo Enrico Petrillo
This picture shows a sample of the handmade photos of gravitational lenses that the astronomers used to train their neural network. Credit: Enrico Petrillo, University of Groningen Oct. 23, 2017 ...
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Neutron star smashup seen for first time, 'transforms' understanding of Universe | Benoit Mours
This artist's impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode as a kilonova. Such a very rare event is expected to produce both gravitational ...
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The Terror of Deep Time | John Michael Greer
Image: Future World Music - New Beginnings. YouTube. youtu.be/2k61ORGZ8h8 Sept. 209, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- Back in the 1950s, sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote cogently about what he called ...
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Farewell Cassini: Saturn spacecraft makes fiery, final dive | Marcia Dunn
This July 23, 2008, image made available by NASA shows the planet Saturn, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft. After a 20-year voyage, Cassini is poised to dive into Saturn on Friday, Sept. 15, ...
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The accelerating expansion of the Universe may not be real | David Wiltshire
The difference in the magnitudes of supernovae in the ΛCDM and Timescape cosmologies and the magnitudes the supernovae would appear to have in an empty universe (horizontal dashed line). Both models ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- Sept. 11, 2017 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- September 11, 2017 Friends Committee on National Legislation Sept. 12 10:00 a.m. House Foreign Affairs Committee, "Hearing: Sanctions, Diplomacy, and Information: Pressuring ...
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Scientists observe largest solar flare in 12 years | University of Sheffield
Coronal mass ejections. Image from the Space Weather Prediction Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sept. 11, 2017 (Phys.org) -- The sun's largest solar flare in more than ...
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Massive sunspots and huge solar flares mean unexpected space weather for Earth | Alexa Halford, Brett Carter and Julie Currie
Two sunspots that can be seen with eclipse glasses have the potential to impact Earth's technology and Weather Sept. 7, 2017 (The Conversation) -- If you still have your solar viewing glasses from ...
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