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[ad_1] A huge radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has played a key role in astronomical discoveries for more than half a century collapsed on Tuesday, officials said. The telescope’s 900-ton receiver platform fell on the reflector dish more than 400 feet below. The US National Science Foundation previously announced …

[ad_1] MAXI J1807 + 132 NICER long-term light curve with time resolution of 25 s in the 0.3–10 keV energy band. This section of the explosion contains the three thermonuclear X-ray bursts detected in October 2019. The data from the X-ray burst has been removed for clarity and their onset …

[ad_1] Tens of thousands of ancient ice age paintings discovered in the Amazon rainforest have been revealed ahead of a new documentary. The paintings cover nearly eight miles of a cliff and are thought to show many extinct “mega animals”. 10 These cave paintings were revealed in a study and …

[ad_1] A huge radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has long played a key role in astronomical discoveries has collapsed, officials say. The Arecibo Observatory had been closed since August after an auxiliary cable snapped and caused a 30-meter gash in the reflector. Then a main cable broke in early …

[ad_1] (Photo via European Space Agency) A global pandemic can become lonely, especially during the holidays. Avoid spreading the disease is make a new friend with the European Space Agency’s ExoMy rover. The smaller, more animated “brother” of the European rover Rosalind Franklin ExoMars is now available for printing and …

[ad_1] A huge radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has long played a key role in astronomical discoveries has collapsed, officials say. The Arecibo Observatory had been closed since August after an auxiliary cable snapped and caused a 30-meter gash in the reflector. Then a main cable broke in early …

[ad_1] (Photo via European Space Agency) A global pandemic can become lonely, especially during the holidays. Avoid spreading the disease is make a new friend with the European Space Agency’s ExoMy rover. The smaller, more animated “brother” of the European rover Rosalind Franklin ExoMars is now available for printing and …

[ad_1] Earlier this month, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins photographed the first major milestone of the Plant Habitat-02 (PH-02) experiment aboard the International Space Station. The survey studies the growth of radishes in a microgravity environment. NASA chose radish because it is a model plant: both nutritious and edible, with a …

[ad_1] Researchers led by Tsukuba University have devised a new approach to show how ghost-like neutrinos helped shape the universe. Credit: Tsukuba University Computer simulations have struggled to capture the impact of elusive particles called neutrinos on the formation and growth of the large-scale structure of the universe. But now, …

[ad_1] Look in the sky: is it a bird, is it an airplane, is it … space junk? A mysterious space object that was captured from Earth’s orbit and is widely believed to be a rocket since the 1960s is now visible to sky watchers as it approaches the planet. …