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Dust – often thought of as an impediment to lunar exploration – could be put to good use to build giant telescopes on the Moon – perhaps some large enough to fill entire craters, says a team of US researchers.
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As understood from the latest Nature publication on Wednesday, 25March 2009, Russian-Italian science team of PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and...
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Antoinette K-Doe, widow of New Orleans musician Ernie K-Doe, the self-styled “Emperor of the Universe” known for his 1961 No. 1 hit...
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God the root cause of all confusion
Before you curse me under the breath please hold your horses
I am not saying that I am a non believer
I do believe that there is...
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Do you know what is the most important photo taken by mankind? If not, it is an image acquired by the Hubble Telescope in September 2003, which for 11 days was pointed...
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Astronomers have detected the most distant gamma-ray burst ever found. The cosmic explosion came from a star that detonated about 12.8 billion light years from...
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Experts around the world are eagerly awaiting the switch on of the world’s biggest scientific experiment, and none more so than Professor Stephen Hawking.The...
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As far as cosmic questions go, it’s as good a one as any: When will our great universe cease to be, and shuffle our great^10^75-grandchildren off the mortal coil?...
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The future looks bright—maybe too bright. The sun is slowly expanding and brightening, and over the next few billion years it will eventually desiccate Earth, leaving...
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Astronomers use instruments called spectrographs to spread the light from celestial objects into its component colours, or frequencies, in the same way water droplets...
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Striking evidence has been found for the enigmatic “stuff” called dark matter which makes up 23% of the Universe, yet is invisible to our eyes.
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Mortal Kombat will never get old, and I thank God for that, as the new title will continue to provide all the things you need to take the stress and anger out on...
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A vast physics experiment - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - reaches a key milestone this weekend ahead of an official start-up on 10 September.
The most powerful...
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The common mantra that there is nothing special about our place in the universe is questioned today by a simulation of the birth of our Solar System.
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Belief in aliens came to a new high when former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell claimed that aliens exist. The Apollo 14 mission veteran asserts that...
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Dayana Mendoza put a promising modeling career on hold to go for _ and win _ the Miss Universe crown.”Being a model is just great. You show a brand, a beautiful...
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Sometimes it’s hard to tell if Barack Obama is running for president of the United States or Mr. Universe.The Democratic presidential contender exercises...
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Get anything done yesterday? Because a galaxy at the edge of the known universe pumped out ten entire stars. Yes, stars, the great big sky-dominating fusion reactors...
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Miss USA has learned a simple lesson from her humiliating tumble during the Miss Universe pageant _ the second year in a row the American contestant has taken a...
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Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela has been crowned Miss Universe 2008.Mendoza and three other Latin Americans women made the final five at Sunday’s contest.The four...
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Star gazing is my hobby and space my passion. I often go through the Internet to surf for great telescopes which allow me to have a closer look at the stars and other...
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Ground based gamma-ray telescopes are providing key observations to explore the non-thermal universe. The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is observing mainly...
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Amateur astronomy, often called back yard astronomy, is a hobby whose participants enjoy observing the celestial objects. Amateur telescopes come in many shapes and...
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Asteroids have been showering the Earth with damages for long. So, NASA thought of searching for these Earth-threatening celestial bodies as small as 140 meters. It has...
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Mysterious force has remained constant over the life of the universe. It refused to fade away. The first results from an international effort to probe the nature of...
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Scientists have been scanning across the outer Universe in search of extraterrestrial civilizations for nearly half a century. All have been disappointing them as more...
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Strudel reports that the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - began a study of ways to deflect Near Earth objects (NEOs) like asteroids. They...
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The NASA Swift satellite has received a “Best of What’s New” award from Popular Science magazine in the aviation-and-space category. Penn State...
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