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Scientists discover ‘sunken worlds’ hidden deep within Earth’s mantle that shouldn’t be there

Submit on Sunday, January 19th, 2025 22:11

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet’s mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth’s crust but appear in seemingly impossible places.

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How ‘quantum foam’ may have inflated the early universe

Submit on Sunday, January 19th, 2025 21:11

For decades, scientists assumed that the expansion of the universe was powered by a new entity, known as the inflaton, but new research suggests that it may have been possible without it.

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World’s largest telescope gets its protective shell (photos)

Submit on Sunday, January 19th, 2025 20:11

The mighty telescope is expected to see its “first light” by 2028.

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20 years after crashing in the Utah desert, NASA’s Genesis mission is still teaching us about solar wind

Submit on Sunday, January 19th, 2025 18:11

Despite crashing in the Utah desert in 2004, NASA’s Genesis mission is still helping scientists study the effects of solar wind.

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 144 —The great lunar armada

Submit on Saturday, January 18th, 2025 23:11

On Episode 144 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik take a look a pair of private moon missions by Firefly Aerospace and ispace that lifted off this week and so much more.

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Nikon 5×15 HG monocular review

Submit on Saturday, January 18th, 2025 22:11

The Nikon 5×15 HG monocular is tiny, but it promises the same high-quality build and lens of Nikon’s other optical devices.

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Satellites watch ‘ghost island’ solidify in the Caspian Sea before disappearing (photos)

Submit on Saturday, January 18th, 2025 21:11

The Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea created an island in early 2023 that had almost disappeared by the end of 2024, according to Landsate satellite imagery.

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World’s largest telescope threatened by light pollution from renewable energy project

Submit on Saturday, January 18th, 2025 20:11

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world’s most precious sky-observing location faces a light pollution risk due to a new renewable energy project.

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