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Is Dark Matter Made of Axions? Black Holes May Reveal the Answer
23 hours ago | Universe Today
What is dark matter made of? It’s one of the most perplexing questions of modern astronomy. We know that dark matter is out there, since we can see its obvious gravitational influence on everything from galaxies to the evolution of the entire universe, but we don’t know what it is. Our best guess is that …
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Small, Tough Planets can Survive the Death of Their Star
18 May 01:00:01 | Universe Today
Sad fact of the Universe is that all stars will die, eventually. And when they do, what happens to their babies? Usually, the prognosis for the planets around a dying star is not good, but a new study says some might in fact survive. A group of astronomers have taken a closer look at what …
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Here?s Where Beresheet Crashed into the Moon
17 May 01:00:01 | Universe Today
The Beresheet lander came oh-so-close to touching down on the surface of the Moon, but something went wrong and it didn’t make it. Now, thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the exact point of impact can be seen. The images were captured 11 days after Beresheet crashed into the Moon. Beresheet would’ve been the first …
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Today is the Highest Concentration of Atmospheric CO2 in Human History. 415 Parts Per Million. Last Time it Was This High, There Were Trees at the South Pole
17 May 01:00:01 | Universe Today
Think about this for a minute: We humans and our emissions are helping turn back the climatological clock by 2 or 3 million years, possibly more. Not since that time, called the Pliocene Epoch, has the CO2 ppm risen above 400. Way back then, the CO2 helped keep the Earth’s temperature 2 to 3 degrees …
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Weekly Space Hangout: May 15, 2019 ? Brother Guy J. Consolmagno, SJ ? Director of the Vatican Observatory
16 May 01:00:01 | Universe Today
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Dr. Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg & ChartYourWorld.org) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Brother Guy J. Consolmagno, SJ is the Director of the Vatican Observatory and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. At the Vatican Observatory since 1993, Brother Consolmagno’s …
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Carnival of Space #611
16 May 01:00:01 | Universe Today
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog. Click here to read Carnival of Space #611. And if you?re interested in looking back, here?s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you?ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email an entry …
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NASA Senior Engineer Kobie Boykins talks About Exploring Mars. And I was There to See it!
15 May 01:00:01 | Universe Today
I recently had the honor of attending a Nat Geo Live talk hosted by Kobie Boykins. As NASA JPL's chief engineer, he has played a major role in the development of every rover sent to Mars since 1997.
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The Blue Origins Founder Wants to Get to the Moon by 2024
15 May 01:00:01 | Universe Today
Blue Origin is going to the Moon. In an hour-long presentation in Washington DC on May 9th, Jeff Bezos spelled out his plans for reaching the Moon, confirming what many guessed he was hinting at in a tweet from the previous week. Bezos and his company, Blue Origin, are developing a lunar lander capable of …
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Ep. 530: Astronomy of the Andes: Then and Now, Pt. 2
14 May 01:00:01 | Universe Today
South America, especially the Atacama Desert in Chile has become one of the best places in the world to put a telescope. It’s dry, high, and the nights are clear. Today we’ll talk about the monster telescopes already in operation in this region, and the big ones coming soon. We usually record Astronomy Cast every …
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Weekly Space Hangout: May 8, 2019 ? Dr. Henry Hsieh talks Active Asteroids
12 May 01:00:01 | Universe Today
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Dr. Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg & ChartYourWorld.org) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Henry Hsieh’s primary interest is investigating the nature of volatile material in the asteroid belt and what it can tell us about the solar system’s formation …
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