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Archive for November 6th, 2022

Scientists are working on an official ‘alien contact protocol’ for when ET phones Earth

November 6th, 2022 by

We’re unprepared for when E.T. reaches out to us. A team of experts is determined to change that.

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Watch an ancient ice sheet cover the British Isles then vanish, in eerie time-lapse animation

November 6th, 2022 by

The rapid decline of the British-Irish Ice Sheet thousands of years ago may hold lessons for how melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will influence sea-level rise in the future.

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Fire alarm on Earth delays Northrop Grumman cargo launch to space station

November 6th, 2022 by

A fire alarm on Earth prevented the launch of Northrop Grumman’s NG-18 cargo ship for NASA on Nov. 6.

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Buckle up for family board game night with ‘Disney Space Mountain: All Systems Go’

November 6th, 2022 by

This sci-fi game from Ravensburger is a high-speed race based on Disney’s Space Mountain indoor roller coaster

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Astronomers have detected another ‘planet killer’ asteroid. Could we miss one coming our way?

November 6th, 2022 by

If you surfed the web this morning, you may have seen news of the latest existential threat to humanity: a “planet killer” asteroid named 2022 AP7. Luckily for us 2022 AP7 “has no chance to hit the Earth currently”, according to Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie Institution for Science.

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Galactic arms comb ‘Berenice’s Hair’ in gorgeous telescope photo

November 6th, 2022 by

The spiral galaxy Messier 99 got the star treatment from two European Southern Observatory instruments.

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Amateur radio operators and more will track NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission

November 6th, 2022 by

NASA named 18 space agencies, organizations and individuals who will watch the Orion spacecraft as it flies around the moon, after launching with Artemis 1 no earlier than Nov. 14.

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launches successful rocket test: report

November 6th, 2022 by

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard successfully launched a new rocket capable of sending satellites into orbit on Saturday (Nov. 5).

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