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Archive for July, 2023

The 1st light to flood the universe can help unravel the history of the cosmos. Here’s how

July 11th, 2023 by

Just as Darwin used the fossil record to piece together the evolution of life on Earth, scientists can use a “cosmic fossil,” the universe’s first light, to understand how the cosmos evolved.

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Colliding black holes could hide in the light of superbright quasars

July 11th, 2023 by

Only an extreme environment could hide the collision of two stellar-mass black holes — and feeding supermassive black holes could provide such cover.

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Save $500 on Prime Day’s lowest-ever Canon EOS R5 camera deal

July 11th, 2023 by

We rated this camera extremely highly in our review and named it one of the best cameras — and now the price has dropped by $500 for Amazon Prime Day!

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Chandrayaan-3: A guide to India’s third mission to the moon

July 10th, 2023 by

Chandrayaan-3 is the third Indian mission to the moon. It aims to deploy a lander and a rover to the lunar surface for 14 Earth days to gather science and imagery.

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Forget Prime Day — the Canon EOS R6 is $300 off at Adorama

July 10th, 2023 by

Save $300 on this full-frame mirrorless bundle from Canon and get an EOS R6 and an EF-EOS R Ring Mount Adapter to use all your old lenses to shoot the stars.

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Boom! Watch an inflatable space habitat explode during testing (video)

July 10th, 2023 by

Lockheed Martin recently completed a successful burst test of the company’s sub-scale inflatable space habitat, pushing past safety limits to explode the module at the company’s Colorado facility.

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James Webb Space Telescope spots violent collision between neutron stars

July 10th, 2023 by

The James Webb Space Telescope traced the second-brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen to a kilonova, a collision between two neutron stars — an event believed to forge heavy elements like gold.

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Is the puzzling star Betelgeuse going to explode in our lifetime after all?

July 10th, 2023 by

A new unpublished study is making waves on the internet, claiming that one of the brightest stars in the night sky might die in a spectacular explosion within our lifetime.

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