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Time travel Tuesday #timetravel a look back at the Adafruit, maker, science,...

Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go. ~Henry Austin Dobson 1857 – Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and Nobel Prize laureate is born. Sir Ronald Ross, KCB, FRS, was an Indian-born...

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Rosetta arrives at comet destination #space

The ESA Rosetta Mission has been posting photos from the Rosetta mission from its rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. And here is an excerpt from the European Space Agency press release...

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Landing on a Comet

The Rosetta Comet Mission is about to reach the crucial 10 year mark! From Embedded Day: Few things could be more fascinating or demanding in the history of European space travel than the Rosetta...

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Maria Mitchell – Astronomer #WHM15 #WomensHistoryMonth

Maria Mitchell (August 1, 1818 – June 28, 1889) was an American astronomer who, in 1847, by using a telescope, discovered a comet which as a result became known as “Miss Mitchell’s Comet”. She won a...

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Asteroids and comets our probes have found: a new chart #Space #UltimaThule...

Click for a full size image via Twitter, image (C) Ted Stryk  If we were to compare all of the asteroids and comets visited by various space probes as of today, how would they stack up size-wise?Via...

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A Comet We’ve Never Seen Has Been Lighting Up the Sky for 100 Years

via MOTHERBOARDOn Thursday night, Earth might pass through the trail of a comet that humans have never directly observed, but which has lit up our skies with fantastic outbursts of hundreds of meteors...

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A More Sober, Scientific Explanation for What Oumuamua Might Be

You’ve likely heard the rather far-fetched theory that the interstellar object, Oumuamua, which was detected in our solar system in 2017, was possibility a piece of alien technology. Respected Harvard...

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The Comet That Exploded Over Atacama Desert 12,000 Years Ago

Scott Harris, researcher at Fernbank Science Center, shares how the exploded comet helped form glass found near Pica, Chile.via SyFyThere has never before been clear evidence that intense thermal...

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An Astrophysicist Reacts to “Don’t Look Up”

Dr. Becky takes a look at the astronomy scenes in the controversial dark satire film, Don’t Look Up, and teases out the space science from the Hollywood razzle-dazzle. It’s funny that one (of the many...

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Astrophysicist Brian Cox on the Science Behind “Don’t Look Up”

Last week I posted a video of astrophysicist Dr. Becky responding to the space science in the controversial film, Don’t Look Up.Here is another astrophysicist, Brian Cox, giving his assessment of the...

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The Slow Demise of a Periodic Near-Sun Comet

With each visit to the sun, a comet is being torn to pieces. It’s called Comet 323P/SOHO, and it is drawn to what will cause its demise. Here’s more from Phys.org:Comets with the SOHO designation were...

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Revisiting the Biggest Planetary Explosion Ever Witnessed from Space

Remember when the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet slammed into Jupiter in 1994? It offered a lifetime opportunity to witness such a massive collision event in real time. The cometary impact was the equivalent...

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The Discovery on ESA’s Rosetta-Philae Mission That Proved Scientists Wrong

This Astrum video is a sort of everything you need to know about ESA’s Rosetta-Philae mission to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko but were afraid to ask. In it, they reveal one big discovery from the...

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