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Archive for January, 2021

High schoolers help discover 4 new alien planets

January 29th, 2021 by

Sixteen-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright helped find four exoplanets circling the sunlike star HD 108236.

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Doomsday Clock stands at 100 seconds to midnight

January 29th, 2021 by

The Doomsday Clock — a hypothetical clock that measures our nearness to utter annihilation, represented by the midnight hour — maintains last year’s time.

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Scientists solve a major climate mystery, confirming Earth is hotter than it’s been in at least 120 centuries

January 29th, 2021 by

Scientists have resolved a controversial but key climate change mystery, bolstering climate models and confirming that Earth is hotter than it’s been in at least 12,000 years, and perhaps even the last 128,000 years.

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On This Day in Space! Jan. 29, 1989: Phobos 2 enters orbit around Mars

January 29th, 2021 by

On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2 arrived in orbit around Mars. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

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Earth’s outer shell ballooned during massive growth spurt 3 billion years ago

January 29th, 2021 by

Zircon crystals found in stream sediments in Greenland have revealed how the Earth’s crust rapidly grew during peak mantle activity.

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We may have found the most powerful particle accelerator in the galaxy

January 29th, 2021 by

Astronomers have long wondered where high-energy cosmic rays come from within our galaxy. And now, new observations reveal an unlikely candidate: an otherwise mundane giant molecular cloud.

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The UAE’s Hope mission is nearly to Mars, and scientists can’t wait

January 29th, 2021 by

With less than two weeks before the country’s first-ever interplanetary mission slips into orbit around Mars, United Arab Emirates scientists can’t wait for the Hope orbiter’s arrival.

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Full moon names (and more) for 2021

January 28th, 2021 by

Here is a list of all the full moon names, dates and times in 2021, beginning with the “Wolf Moon” in January, to the “Cold Moon” in December.

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