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An artist’s impression of a rogue planet detected in the Rho Ophiuchi region where infrared and other imaging helped uncover at least 70 of these objects. These free-floating planets have masses comparable to those of the planets in our solar system but do not orbit a star, instead roaming freely on their own. (European Southern Observatory/M. Kornmesser)

Lost In Space: Astronomers Find Evidence Of Dozens Of Free-Floating Rogue Planets

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Evidence is mounting that rogue planets were ejected by their solar systems to wander in the dark.
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Scientists are studying the ongoing collision between two Milky Way star clusters, a phenomenon observed for the first time. (CONICET/Zenger)

Star Wars: Astonishing Collision Of Milky Way Star Clusters Discovered

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Two huge star clusters have been observed ramming into each other, say experts.
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Launched in 2018, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has added to its list of achievements by becoming the first spacecraft to descend into the solar atmosphere and survive the experience. (NASA)

Sun Stroke: Spacecraft Touches The Sun For The First Time

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe — the fastest man-made object ever — survived the heat of the sun, revealing the start of its mysteries.
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Researchers at the University of East Anglia and the University of Manchester helped conduct a 16-year-long experiment to challenge Einstein’s theory of general relativity observing tars known as pulsars. (Max Planck Institute)

VIDEO: Einstein’s Theory Of General Relativity Stands Up To Challenge

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Scientists observed pulsars for 16 years to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity, and E=mc2 still holds up.
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Volunteer James Leidner spent three nights in a high-tech sleeping bag that unloads pressure in the brain by suctioning fluids into the lower body. NASA hopes the sack can be used by astronauts in space to alleviate the vision and cardiovascular problems they commonly endure during longer missions. (UT Southwestern Medical Center)

To Boldly Doze: How Vacuum Sleeping Bags Could Help Astronauts’ Sight

December 11, 2021 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

Special beds correct the weightless body fluid pressures that cause blurred vision.�
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The IAU in 2006 withdrew recognition of Pluto as a planet based on the current definition that a planet must clear its own orbit, but now researchers are pushing back, saying that definition is based on astrology, not science. This enhanced color image of Pluto was produced by combining four images from New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager with color data from the spacecraft Ralph instrument. (JPL/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)

Plut-No! Is Pluto Making A Comeback As A Planet?

December 9, 2021 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

Some experts say downgrading Pluto was based on astrological concepts, not scientific ones, and that it should be reinstated.
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An artist's concept depicts Earth's protective magnetosphere to scale. North of Norway over the Norwegian and Greenland seas, a magnetic bubble known as the cusp surrounds Earth and dips inward. Some air in the cusp is unusually dense, and the CREX-2 mission aims to understand why. (NASA)

Sun-thing Spooky: NASA Rocket To Probe Mysterious ‘Speed Bumps’ At Earth’s Poles

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Unexplained gaps in Earth’s magnetic shield let in solar winds, jam GPS signals and even slow down orbiting spacecraft.
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An artistic conception shows the stream of particles from the sun known as solar wind striking the Itokawa asteroid. (Curtin University)

Sun-Sational Breakthrough: Some Of Earth’s Water Was Brought To The Planet By Solar Winds

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Scientists discover that the sun helped create life-giving water, with waves of charged hydrogen particles colliding with dust.
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U.S. Army astronaut Drew Morgan exercises in space. According to a new study, microgravity causes more errors in DNA replication, which will lead to premature aging and other negative health effects for astronauts. (U.S. Army/Zenger)

Space Aged: Astronauts Age Faster Because Of Microgravity, Says Study

November 30, 2021 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

Weightlessness makes DNA replication more prone to errors, so astronauts experience the symptoms of aging earlier than normal.
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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft launches on a mission to collide with an asteroid in the world's first planetary defense test mission. Riding atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, DART took off Wednesday, Nov. 24, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

VIDEO: Operation As-Kicker: NASA Launches DART To Crash Into Asteroid In Planetary Defense Test

November 24, 2021 1skholloway1975 Comments Off

Experiment will test whether an asteroid heading for Earth could be deflected from its course.
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