Space
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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 (Phy ...
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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 waves ...
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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 “crackp ...
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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, 2016. ...
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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 North ...
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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 1 ...
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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 th ...
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Researchers propose how the universe became filled with light | P. Kaaret
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 30, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Soon after the Big Bang, the universe went completely dark. The intense, seminal event that created the cosmos churned up so much hot, thick gas ...
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Stars orbiting supermassive black hole show Einstein was right again | Marzieh Parsa
Artist's impression of the orbits of three of the stars very close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Credit: ESO/M. Parsa/L. Calçada Aug. 14, 2017 (Phys.org) -- At the ce ...
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Tardigrades: The last survivors on Earth | David Sloan, Rafael Alves Batista, and Abraham Loeb
Tardigrade. Source: BBC July 14, 2017 (Phys.org) -- The world's most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the Sun die ...
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