Science

China launches mission to bring back material from the moon

[ad_1] The launch was broadcast live on national broadcaster CCTV, which then switched to computer animation to showcase its progress in space. Loading The typically secretive administration had previously only confirmed that the launch would be in late November. Spacecraft typically take three days to reach the moon. The mission’s …

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Creation of self-constructed folded macrocycles with low symmetry

[ad_1] Two views of the main chain of the crystal structure of a perfectly unimolecular 23mer that forms spontaneously from a single monomer. Credit: Huc Group The synthesis and self-organization of biological macromolecules is essential for life on earth. Chemists at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich now report the …

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Galaxy encounters the violently disturbed Milky Way, according to a study

[ad_1] Magellanic Clouds over Bromo Semeru Tengger National Park, Java, Indonesia. Credit: Gilbert Vancell- gvancell.com The spiral-shaped disk of stars and planets is being pulled, twisted and deformed with extreme violence by the gravitational force of a smaller galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Scientists believe that the LMC crossed …

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Researchers present a super-fast camera for exoplanets

[ad_1] The 20440-pixel MKID device designed for the MKID Exoplanet Camera is the superconducting detector array with the highest number of pixels at any wavelength. Credit: Image courtesy of the researchers In the years since astronomers discovered the first exoplanet, a planet that orbits a star outside the solar system, …

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