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Watch 4 Planets Spin Round a Star 130 Gentle-Years Away

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4 exoplanets, every bigger than Jupiter, orbit HR8799, represented by the yellow star form on the heart.Picture: Gizmodo/Jason Wang/Northwestern College Astronomical phenomena are inclined to happen over timespans that dwarf our human scale—a galaxy modifications over hundreds of thousands and billions of years, not many years. However a brand new timelapse of observations of a … Read more

Remembering the Arecibo Observatory Dish, Two Years After Its Collapse

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The destroyed dish on the day of its collapse.Picture: RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP (Getty Photos) It occurred in lower than 10 seconds, two years in the past at present: The Arecibo Observatory’s 1,000-foot radio dish collapsed, eliminating one of many world’s most famed sources of radio observations. Throughout its 57 years in operation in northern Puerto Rico, … Read more