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Astronomer names
Expecting parents can find their perfect baby name when they least expect it. Maybe when they re watching a Disney flick, or when appreciating the best television characters, or possibly even when they spot what s flying in the friendly skies. But perhaps they should look a little bit higher in the sky…
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New findings in Science
GETTY Scientists say that there is life after death In a large scale study of more than 2, people, British boffins confirmed that thoughts DO carry on after the heart stops. The shock research has also uncovered the most convincing evidence of an out of body experience for a patient declared dead. It had been believed the brain stopped all activity 30 seconds after the heart…
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Science space articles
WASHINGTON — There’s a long-standing joke that NASA is always 20 years from putting astronauts on Mars. Mission details shared at a recent summit shows that the space agency is right on schedule. A to-do list from 2015 looks remarkably similar to one compiled in 1990. One difference: NASA is now building a rocket and test-driving technologies needed to get a crew to Mars. But…
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Galaxy Outer space
Not long ago we talked about what the Milky Way would look like when seen from afar. I had mentioned Poul Anderson’s World Without Stars , which appeared in Analog in 1966 under the title The Ancient Gods . In the Anderson tale, a starship crew is sent to make contact with a recently discovered technological civilization that lives on a world hundreds of thousands of light…
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Earth sized planet in Habitable Zone
Waimea, Hawaii – Scientists from University of California, Berkeley, and University of Hawaii, Manoa, have statistically determined that twenty percent of Sun-like stars in our galaxy have Earth-sized planets that could host life. The findings, gleaned from data collected from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft and the W. M. Keck Observatory, now satisfy Kepler s primary mission: to…
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Famous astronomers in History
Science has many colorful figures, but nobody quite like Tycho Brahe. Beyond his astronomy genius, he lost his nose in a math-fueled duel, possibly inspired Shakespeare to write Hamlet, and maybe made his even greater successor Johannes Kepler a murderer. It s hard to avoid getting a bit sensational when talking about Brahe. Everything about his life seemed off-kilter and larger-than-life…
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Earth and Space current events
Story highlights Researchers have discovered three potentially habitable, Earth-like worlds orbiting a dwarf star The star and its planets are 40 light-years away in another star system The ultracool dwarf star, known as TRAPPIST-1, isn t the kind of star scientists expected to be a hub for planets. It s at the end of the range for what classifies as a star: half the temperature…
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Galileo Galilei Astronomy
Nationality: Italian Famous For: Kinematics, Dynamics, Telescopic observational astronomy, Heliocentrism Galileo Galilei was born on February 15 1564, in Pisa, Italy. When he was 17 years old, his parents sent him to the University at Pisa to pursue medicine. Galileo’s Pendulum Study While he was in a service in the cathedral one day, he was distracted by a bronze lamp hanging…
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