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'Icarus Of The Deep': How A Dying Anglerfish Became A Social Media Sensation
Photographer David Jara Bogu filmed a humpback anglerfish swimming near the surface in sunlit waters.
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Mars' Moons Might Have Been Created From Asteroids Coming Too Close to the Red Planet
A study published in Icarus explores the possibility that Mars’ moons, Phobos and Deimos, formed from asteroid debris torn apart by the planet’s gravitational forces. Researchers ran advanced simulations to propose this scenario, which fits the moons’ circular orbits better than previous theories. Japan’s upcoming MMX mission is expected to...
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Scientists Believe 'Alien' Rock Hypatia May Reveal Details on Events That Lead to Supernova Explosions
Researchers are hopeful that an extraterrestrial stone found in the Egyptian desert could help shed some light on these spectacular events. The stone is named Hypatia. The experts have a hypothesis that the Hypatia stone originated with a star – a red giant star collapsed into a white dwarf star, which eventually “ate” the other star.
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NASA’s Hubble Spots Oldest, Most Distant Star Ever Seen
Astronomers have discovered the farthest and oldest star ever seen, named Earendel. It shone about 900 million years after the Big Bang, and is estimated to be at least 50 times the mass of the Sun. Icarus, another blue supergiant star discovered by Hubble, held the previous record.
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Most Distant Star Ever Detected Sits Halfway Across The Universe
Researchers said on Monday they used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to spot the star, which is up to a million times more luminous and about twice as hot as our sun, residing 9.3 billion lights years away from Earth. It is a type of star called a blue supergiant.
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Hubble Space Telescope Spots Farthest Individual Star Ever Seen
The star, nicknamed Icarus and harboured in a very distant spiral galaxy, is so far away that its light has taken nine billion years to reach Earth.
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Oscars 2018: Netflix's Icarus Wins Best Documentary
The win at Oscars 2018 is the second Oscar for Netflix in as many years. Icarus delved into the Russian state-sponsored doping programme.
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Icarus, Tacoma, Harry Potter, and More – The Weekend Chill
A look at Russia's state-sponsored anti-doping programme, an exploration game set aboard a space station, all eight films about the boy wizard, and other things to enjoy this weekend.
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Marvel's The Defenders, Death Note, Icarus, and More on Netflix in August
A small-screen version of The Avengers, an adaptation of a Japanese manga, a documentary about the Russian doping scandal, and a lot more.
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Nasa, Ex-Microsoft Technologist Lock Horns Over Asteroid Data
"None of their results can be replicated. I found one irregularity after another," Myhrvold said in the paper submitted recently to the journal Icarus for publication.
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Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury dies at 91
Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, whose dystopian works such as "Fahrenheit 451" offered cautionary tales about perilous futures and reflected post-war American anxiety, has died aged 91.
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Einstein can rest easy as neutrinos obey speed limit
New research suggests neutrinos that appeared to break one of Einstein's fundamental theories by travelling faster than the speed of light actually keep within the universal speed limit after all.
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'Icarus Of The Deep': How A Dying Anglerfish Became A Social Media Sensation
Photographer David Jara Bogu filmed a humpback anglerfish swimming near the surface in sunlit waters.
-
Mars' Moons Might Have Been Created From Asteroids Coming Too Close to the Red Planet
A study published in Icarus explores the possibility that Mars’ moons, Phobos and Deimos, formed from asteroid debris torn apart by the planet’s gravitational forces. Researchers ran advanced simulations to propose this scenario, which fits the moons’ circular orbits better than previous theories. Japan’s upcoming MMX mission is expected to...
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Scientists Believe 'Alien' Rock Hypatia May Reveal Details on Events That Lead to Supernova Explosions
Researchers are hopeful that an extraterrestrial stone found in the Egyptian desert could help shed some light on these spectacular events. The stone is named Hypatia. The experts have a hypothesis that the Hypatia stone originated with a star – a red giant star collapsed into a white dwarf star, which eventually “ate” the other star.
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NASA’s Hubble Spots Oldest, Most Distant Star Ever Seen
Astronomers have discovered the farthest and oldest star ever seen, named Earendel. It shone about 900 million years after the Big Bang, and is estimated to be at least 50 times the mass of the Sun. Icarus, another blue supergiant star discovered by Hubble, held the previous record.
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Most Distant Star Ever Detected Sits Halfway Across The Universe
Researchers said on Monday they used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to spot the star, which is up to a million times more luminous and about twice as hot as our sun, residing 9.3 billion lights years away from Earth. It is a type of star called a blue supergiant.
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Hubble Space Telescope Spots Farthest Individual Star Ever Seen
The star, nicknamed Icarus and harboured in a very distant spiral galaxy, is so far away that its light has taken nine billion years to reach Earth.
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Oscars 2018: Netflix's Icarus Wins Best Documentary
The win at Oscars 2018 is the second Oscar for Netflix in as many years. Icarus delved into the Russian state-sponsored doping programme.
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Icarus, Tacoma, Harry Potter, and More – The Weekend Chill
A look at Russia's state-sponsored anti-doping programme, an exploration game set aboard a space station, all eight films about the boy wizard, and other things to enjoy this weekend.
-
Marvel's The Defenders, Death Note, Icarus, and More on Netflix in August
A small-screen version of The Avengers, an adaptation of a Japanese manga, a documentary about the Russian doping scandal, and a lot more.
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Nasa, Ex-Microsoft Technologist Lock Horns Over Asteroid Data
"None of their results can be replicated. I found one irregularity after another," Myhrvold said in the paper submitted recently to the journal Icarus for publication.
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Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury dies at 91
Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, whose dystopian works such as "Fahrenheit 451" offered cautionary tales about perilous futures and reflected post-war American anxiety, has died aged 91.
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Einstein can rest easy as neutrinos obey speed limit
New research suggests neutrinos that appeared to break one of Einstein's fundamental theories by travelling faster than the speed of light actually keep within the universal speed limit after all.
