Month: November 2016
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Earth’s Magnetic Field Has A Crack
A telescope known as the GRAPES-3 muon recorded a burst of cosmic rays. These rays were about 20 GeV. This occurred on June 22nd of 2015. The burst lasted 2 hours and happened due to a solar corona. It was moving at about 2.5 million kph when it hit our planet. The hit caused…
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An Ocean On Pluto
NASA’s spacecraft, New Horizons, picked up a new analysis that may mean that there is a subsurface ocean on Pluto! How did they deduce this? Sputnik Planitia is a low lying plain on Pluto and according to the new images it is very well aligned with Pluto’s tidal axis. It’s so certain that scientists…
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Space “Tsunami” Creates Spectacular Eyelid-like Image
A giant wave of gas is currently slamming through a distant spiral galaxy and as it travels it is creating a spectacular image that resembles eyelids. The zone of turbulence was formed as a result of galaxy IC2163 being brushed by galaxy NGC 2207 and the resulting “eyelid” feature will remain for millions of…
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Mars Rover Curiosity Finds an Unusual Meteorite
The Mars Rover called Curiosity has been roaming the surface of Mars since 2012 and has just found an unusual meteorite on October 31, 2016. It isn’t Curiosity’s first but it is the most unusual one found by any of the rovers. Two years ago, Curiosity found its first meteorite and it was…
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A Gas Cloud Poised to Impact with the Milky Way
There is a massive gas cloud that is predicted to hit the Milky Way Galaxy. But before you lose sleep, and rest assured, there is no real danger to the galaxy when the cloud hits in approximately 30 million years. What has been dubbed the Smith’s Cloud since it was noticed in 1963, scientists…