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NASA releases the “last light” image taken by Kepler before it retired last year

sudshr47 February 8, 2019

NASA has released the final view taken by Kepler in September, shortly before the space telescope was retired after nearly a decade of unprecedented discoveries about the universe beyond our solar system. “It bookends the moment of intense excitement nine and a half years earlier when the spacecraft first opened its eye to the skies […]

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Astronomers spot more mysterious radio signals from far outside the galaxy

sudshr47 January 10, 2019

Whenever some new “cosmic puzzle” crops up, you always have to be ready for the other shoe to drop. But just because something isn’t an alien message or Ringworld doesn’t mean it can’t be interesting science. Today’s shoe drop concerns “fast radio bursts” coming from a distant galaxy — but don’t expect a secret message […]

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The Matrix PowerWatch 2 is a vampiric timepiece that sucks your life-force

sudshr47 January 7, 2019

When Matrix came out with its first PowerWatch the watch world was enamored. The self-powered smart watch would suck energy from your skin by using the temperature differential between your skin and the air, allowing it to run indefinitely without charging. Now the team has added a solar feature to their latest PowerWatch 2 which […]

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Scientists spot the farthest known object in our solar system, and it’s pink

sudshr47 December 17, 2018

There’s something orbiting the sun, way, way beyond the distant realm of Pluto.
A team of astronomers recently spotted the farthest-known object in the solar system using a telescope atop Hawaii’s lofty Mauna Kea, and announced the discovery on…

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A super-Earth orbits a famous star not far from our sun

sudshr47 November 15, 2018

Since the 1960s, scientists and exoplanet hunters have searched for evidence of planets orbiting one particular star. It’s called Barnard’s star and it’s only six light-years from our sun — a stone’s throw in a cosmic sense.

Now, an international team of astronomers has managed to discover a possible planet, known as a super-Earth, orbiting the star.

Published in the journal Nature this week, the discovery was made by a team at Hawaii’s W. M. Keck Observatory, using, among other instruments, the observatory’s High-Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES).

Artist’s impression of Barnard’s star planet under the orange tinted light from the star.

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How to spot internet alien panic from a light-year away

sudshr47 November 7, 2018

Perhaps you’ve heard: Alien panic is sweeping the internet.
You can’t go more than a week or two without a new and ridiculous story about life maybe being out there in the universe going viral, spawning breathless coverage and debunks alike. It…

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NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is dead. Long live Kepler.

sudshr47 October 30, 2018

All good things must come to an end, on Earth and even in space.

NASA announced on Tuesday that the Kepler mission — which has transformed how we understand planets outside of our solar system — is officially over.

According to the space agency, Kepler has run out of fuel in space, ending its 9.5-year planet hunting mission.

“Before we launched Kepler, we didn’t know if planets were common or rare in our galaxy,” Paul Hertz, NASA’s Astrophysics Division director, said in a press call Tuesday.

Thanks to Kepler’s data, which was all safely beamed back to Earth before the end of the mission, we now know that planets are, in fact, exceedingly common. Read more…

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Meet Shuttle, the company that’s building a booking agent for spaceflight

sudshr47 October 26, 2018

Avery Haskell says he first knew he wanted to be an astronaut ever since he was a boy growing up in Houston near NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The 24 year-old Stanford graduate who counts Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan as his heroes, grew up in an entrepreneurial family. In the early days of the Internet […]

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These are the most incredible space photos of 2018

sudshr47 October 26, 2018

The best space photos transport you. Sometimes they can take you to a time – the 2017 total solar eclipse – or a place – rock formations in Utah under a cloudless sky – but no matter what, these images allow you to leave your own small portion o…

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Stephen Hawking’s final paper about black holes is now online

sudshr47 October 13, 2018

Stephen Hawking passed away earlier this year at the age of 76, but his incredible intellect isn’t yet done contributing to the scientific community. The acclaimed physicist’s final paper is now online for anyone to read and it revisits some mysteries of the physical world that came to define his illustrious career. Titled “Black Hole […]

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Scientists think they’ve found a moon orbiting a world outside the solar system

sudshr47 October 3, 2018

For the first time, astronomers think they’ve found solid evidence of a moon orbiting a planet outside of our solar system.

And it’s a doozy.

The exoplanet, named Kepler-1625b, is 8,000 light-years away and thought to be many times more massive than Jupiter, much larger than any world in our own solar system. The moon orbiting it is about the size of Neptune.

If confirmed, this will be the first time a moon has been found outside of the solar system, according to a new study detailing the finding in the journal Science Advances.

“It is an exciting reminder of how little we really know about distant planetary systems and the great spirit of discovery exoplanetary science embodies,” study co-author Alex Teachey said of the discovery in a statement. Read more…

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SETI neural networks spot dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy

sudshr47 September 10, 2018

The perennial optimists at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, have joined the rest of the world in deploying AI to help manage huge datasets — and their efforts almost instantly bore fruit. 72 new “fast radio bursts” from a mysteriously noisy galaxy 3 billion miles away were discovered in previously-analyzed data by using a custom machine learning model.