[ad_1] The Japanese space agency says its final checks have confirmed that the Hayabusa2 probe is on track to return to Earth a capsule containing samples from a distant asteroid that could provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on our planet. Of MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated …
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[ad_1] Coober Pedy, Australia – A Japanese spacecraft is expected to launch a capsule containing two samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Ryugu asteroid above Earth on Saturday, as scientists await the arrival of materials that could help explain the origin of life. The capsule, which will be released by the …
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[ad_1] FP trend4 December 2020, 15:48:09 The planets Jupiter and Saturn will line up to form a spectacular phenomenon in the night sky called a “double planet” in December. The first Jupiter-Saturn conjunction since 2000 it will also be the closest since 1623. The next conjunction will see Jupiter and …
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[ad_1] The most accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever seen is revealing the secrets of our galaxy. Peering deep into the anticenter – the opposite direction to the galactic center – is helping astronomers reconstruct the Milky Way’s wild past. The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite, launched in …
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[ad_1] Astronomers have taken a step towards understanding how the Moon could have formed from a giant collision between the early Earth and another huge object 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists led by Durham University in the UK ran supercomputer simulations on the DiRAC high-performance computing facility to send a …
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[ad_1] The National Science Foundation of the United States has released a video of the controlled crash of the Arecibo radio telescope on the American island of Puerto Rico.It was used by astronomers all over the world and allowed the discovery of the first planets orbiting a star other than …
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[ad_1] The object formally known as 2020 SO entered a wide, lopsided orbit around Earth last month and, on Tuesday, came closer to just over 31,000 miles (50,476 kilometers). It will depart from the neighborhood in March, resuming its orbit around the sun. His next return: 2036. . [ad_2] Source …
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[ad_1] China’s FAST is just a giant single-dish radio telescope after the Arecibo collapseSouth China Morning Post Explained: Why the collapse of the Arecibo telescope is a loss to astronomyThe Indian Express The Arecibo Observatory collapses long before it could be safely demolishedSoyaCincau.com View full coverage on Google News . …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: A diagram of the Milky Way’s two most important companion galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud or LMC (left) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) made using data from … view More Credit: ESA / Gaia / DPAC On December 3, an international team of astronomers will announce the …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: The Voyager spacecraft continues to make discoveries even as it travels through interstellar space. In a new study, physicists at the University of Iowa report on Voyager’s detection of cosmic rays … sight More Credit: NASA / JPL More than 40 years after its launch, the Voyager probe …
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