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Google Science Feeds: Scientists Plan Private Mission to Hunt for Earths around Alpha Centauri
A privately funded telescope called Toliman will seek habitable worlds in our nearest neighboring star system, potentially sparking a new wave of exoplanetary exploration. By Jonathan O'Callaghan on November 17, 2021. Share on Facebook.
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Google Science Feeds: How the Beaver Moon lunar eclipse of Nov. 19 has shades of 1967
Our upcoming lunar eclipse has a direct connection to an eclipse that occurred in the late 1960s. There is a reason for this that I will make clear in just a moment. But first, let's take a look back at that eclipse of more than half a century ago, ...
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Google Science Feeds: How Chandrayaan-2 avoided collision with NASA's orbiter
To avoid collision with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) last month, Chandrayaan-2 performed an evasive manoeuvre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) informed in a statement. A very close conjunction between the two was expected to ...
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Google Science Feeds: Why is sci-fi so obsessed with asteroid impact disasters (and how to stop them)?
For longer than science fiction has even existed, humans have been fascinated with (and terrified by) the prospect of space rocks falling to Earth. But why? There is one obvious explanation: Asteroids have fallen to Earth many times before, ...
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Google Science Feeds: It's a snap: the friction-based physics behind a common gesture
Saad Bhamla at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and his colleagues filmed volunteers clicking their fingers while wearing a variety of finger coverings. Nitrile gloves served as the control. When a water-based moisturizer ...
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Google Science Feeds: Indian scientists discover star-planet bigger than Jupiter
BENGALURU: The exoplanet search and study group at the Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), has discovered a new exoplanet orbiting too close to an evolved or aging star with a mass of 1.5 times that of Sun and located 725 light years ...
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Google Science Feeds: Longest partial lunar eclipse in nearly 600 years coming this week
According to NASA, the eclipse will be three hours and 28 minutes long. · You don't need any special glasses to see it, unlike during a solar eclipse. · A lunar eclipse happens when the sun, Earth, and a full moon form a near-perfect lineup in space.
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Google Science Feeds: When Is the November 2021 Full Moon, Why Is It Called the Beaver Moon?
It's set to be a good weekend for skywatching as the Beaver Moon and a near-total lunar eclipse are set to occur on the same day. The Beaver Moon is the name given to the full moon in November. Technically this full moon is due to occur early on Friday ...
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Google Science Feeds: 'Perseverance' is Cambridge Dictionary's word of 2021
The Cambridge Dictionary has revealed its word of the year for 2021 as "perseverance", with editors crediting global interest in NASA's mission to Mars. Look-ups for the word spiked after the Perseverance Rover made its final descent to the red planet ...
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Google Science Feeds: How Did Heavy Metals Like Gold, Uranium Form? Research Says Answer Lies in Black Holes
While heavy metals were formed inside stars or collision of neutron stars, the question remains if they can be produced in any other way · The true origin of heavy metals remains an intriguing subject · Black holes orbited by an accretion disc may help ...
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