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Scientists discover fossil of massive rodent-like animal called 'crazy beast'

April 30, 2020

The ancient supercontinent of Gondwana started to break up into pieces about 180 million years ago, eventually leading to Australia, Africa, Antarctica, Madagascar, South America, and India separating. Mammals first appeared during the Triassic Period more than 200 million years ago and remained bit players until an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, eradicating the dinosaurs and paving the way for mammals to dominate.

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NASA Asteroid Tracker: Near-Earth Object Approaching The Planet On Thursday

April 30, 2020

However, the Virtual Telescope Project (VTP) operated by astronomer Gianluca Masi, will also be providing a live stream of the asteroid's journey past our planet. In 2079, space rock 1998 OR2 will pass Earth about 3.5 occasions nearer than it will this year, so it is imperative to know its circle correctly.

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Alberta offers emergency payment to flood evacuees in northern Alberta

Alberta offers emergency payment to flood evacuees in northern Alberta

April 30, 2020

On Tuesday, municipal and provincial officials were keeping a close eye on river levels after a 25-kilometre ice jam caused major flooding and forced almost 13,000 people from their homes in the downtown. Fort McMurray is under evacuation for the second time in four years. Scott told the Edmonton Journal that the possibility of military intervention was considered, but would not work for this "one-in-one-hundred-year flood ".

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Huge asteroid 52768 to fly by Earth the morning of April 29

April 29, 2020

Nevertheless, 1998 OR2 is classified as "potentially hazardous" because over the course of centuries, or millennia, very small changes in the asteroid's orbit around the sun could make it more of a risk to our planet than it now poses. And Dr. Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at the Australian National University, added: "This asteroid poses no danger to the Earth and will not hit - it is one catastrophe we won't have".

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Paleontologists: Eastern Morocco Once ‘Most Dangerous’ Region on Earth

Paleontologists: Eastern Morocco Once ‘Most Dangerous’ Region on Earth

April 29, 2020

Around 100 million years ago, an area of the Sahara in what is now south-eastern Morocco was home to a frightening array of ferocious predators , so much so scientists have dubbed it "most risky place in the history of planet Earth". Numerous predators were relying on an abundant supply of fish, according to co-author Professor David Martill from the University of Portsmouth. Fossils of a "bonecrushing" reptile that's related to the modern-day crocodile has been discovered in Brazil.

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An Asteroid

An Asteroid "Coming Near Earth" Looks Like It's Wearing A Face Mask

April 29, 2020

As per analysis conducted by NASA , asteroid 1998 OR2 is now screeching across space at a speed of 31,000 kph. An asteroid, named 1998 OR2, is scheduled to move by Earth tomorrow on April 29 at a distance of 6.2 million kilometres. NEO is a term that refers to any asteroid or comet orbiting the Sun that comes within 121 million miles of the star, and 30 million miles of Earth's orbit.

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Thanking Our Lucky Stars Asteroid Is Set To Miss Earth

April 28, 2020

But don't worry, that's 16 times farther than the distance between the moon and our planet. The observatory additionally captured the picture of the 1998 OR2 and it options make it appear to be it's carrying a masks, mentioned Anne Virkki , the top of Planetary Radar at Arecibo.

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Largest-ever ozone layer hole above the Arctic closed

April 28, 2020

Taking to Twitter , Copernicus ECMWF wrote, "The unprecedented 2020 northern hemisphere #OzoneHole has come to an end". However, fortunately, there has been some good news from there too: a year ago, the ozone hole above the Antarctic was observed to be at its smallest since it was first discovered.

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Asteroid classed as 'potentially hazardous object' set to pass Earth on Wednesday

April 28, 2020

NASA claims that all objects that fly pass by Earth within 50 million kilometres are considered as near-earth objects. The body, dubbed Asteroid 52768 (1998 OR2 ), is said to be the biggest asteroid of the year, but what makes it even more interesting is the fact that it is making the close approach with a "mask on", just like we all should.

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On again! Jessie J hints at rekindling romance with Channing Tatum

April 28, 2020

She wrote her birthday message alongside a photo of Channing standing in clear blue water, before adding a black and white photo of him removing a motorbike helmet. A source informed People , "They cared enough about each other to try again but realized it was better to move on". A week after their split, the "Bang Bang" singer got candid on social media and opened up about "delayed emotions", sharing a quote from late Heath Ledger about happiness.

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Unusual Ozone Hole Over The Arctic Is Now Closed, Confirm Scientists

April 28, 2020

After looming above the Arctic for almost a month, the singlelargest ozone hole ever detected over the North Pole has finally closed, researchers from the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service ( CAMS ) reported. "It's been driven by an unusually strong and long-lived polar vortex, and isn't related to air quality changes". The ozone layer works as a protective shield as it prevents Sun's ultraviolet rays- which can cause skin cancer- from entering Earth.

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Progress docked to the ISS and set a record

Progress docked to the ISS and set a record

April 27, 2020

Just three hours and twenty minutes later, the spacecraft docked with the station's Zvezda module. After an appointment without problem on two orbits, Progress has caught up with its career and has moored in the rear port of the laboratory.

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Coronavirus scare? Giant asteroid approaching Earth spotted 'wearing' a mask

Coronavirus scare? Giant asteroid approaching Earth spotted 'wearing' a mask

April 27, 2020

ET - classifying it as a "potentially hazardous" asteroid despite the impossibility of it posing a threat to Earth anytime soon. Scientists have joked that the latest image of the asteroid look like it is wearing a mask due to dust and debris passing around it.

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Progress 75 resupply ship docks at International Space Station

Progress 75 resupply ship docks at International Space Station

April 27, 2020

After a series of carefully choreographed rocket launches, Progress caught up with the station, aligned itself with the rear port of the Russian module Zvezda and moved in for a smooth docking at 1:12 a.m. The ISS now has three crew - American Chris Cassidy and Russians Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin who boarded earlier this month. Japan's HTV cargo ship will carry out the next launch on May 20 and will carry a final set of replacement solar array batteries.

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Attack on DRC’s Virunga National Park kills at least 17

Attack on DRC’s Virunga National Park kills at least 17

April 27, 2020

Virunga National Park is spread more than 7,800 square kilometres (3,011 square miles) over the borders of the DRC , Rwanda and Uganda. Today the park was a scene of terror. Nearly 200 Virunga rangers have died in past militia attacks. It said that civilians were the apparent target of the attack. This is a devastating day for Virunga National Park and the surrounding communities.

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Asteroid OR2 Looks Like Wearing A Face Mask In Recently Released Images

Asteroid OR2 Looks Like Wearing A Face Mask In Recently Released Images

April 26, 2020

According to CNN , the asteroid, called 52768 (1998 OR2 ), was first spotted in 1998. The space rock will not get too close to Earth, and will only be about 3.9 million miles from Earth at its closest approach. According to Scientific study, crores of asteroids in the Solar system are attracted towards Earth due to the gravitational pull. The team of researchers will continue to gather information until April 23 when it will no longer be noticeable from the Arecibo Observatory.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope turns 30 today

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope turns 30 today

April 26, 2020

With a length of 13.2 metres and weight of about 10,886 kg at the time of launch, the telescope is accurate enough to detect a target without deviating more than 7/1000th of an arcsecond at a distance of 1 mile. The picture features two nebulas , NGC 2014 and NGC 2020, hanging out in the Large Magellanic Cloud some 163,000 light-years away. Each year, Hubble has a small portion of its precious observing time dedicated to taking a special anniversary image, showcasing particularly ...

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Hubble takes an incredible picture to celebrate his 30th birthday

April 26, 2020

Since its launch on the shuttle Discovery on 24 April 1990, the telescope has revealed some of the great wonders of the universe to mankind. The telescope, which is about 600 kilometers from the earth and continues to tour the Earth in its orbit, has enabled us to open the eyes of humanity to the cosmos and reach information about the universe for 30 years on duty.

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Geologists released a modern map of the surface of the moon

April 25, 2020

NASA wants to build a house for humans on the moon and for this, NASA is working alone. As a geology geek, I daresay that geological maps are fascinating in their own right, but when you mix the two together - you know you're gonna end up with something good.

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Coronavirus: WHO failed to implement rules on China

Coronavirus: WHO failed to implement rules on China

April 25, 2020

The WHO has been under fire for reportedly parroting China's claims and misinformations about the disease. The WHO also botched the initial response to the COVID-19 outbreak earlier in the year. ships in the Persian Gulf Waters. "We need a structural fix with the World Health Organization". "We have to make sure that we don't have this problem yet again coming from China", Pompeo said, adding that the United States had been very direct in making its expectations clear to China.

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Journalists 'are going nuts' over Trump's recent COVID-19 comments

Journalists 'are going nuts' over Trump's recent COVID-19 comments

April 24, 2020

He didn't specify which disinfectant he had in mind, however. But William Bryan of the Department of Homeland Security said at a White House briefing on Thursday that there are emerging results from new research that suggest solar light has a powerful effect in killing the virus on surfaces and in the air.

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US blasts China at Southeast Asian meeting on coronavirus

US blasts China at Southeast Asian meeting on coronavirus

April 24, 2020

Geng hit back on Wednesday the suing should be dismissed, adding the move is not good for the USA and is also against the very idea of worldwide cooperation on the disease. Ms Chaib, asked about the impact of Trump's decision last week to suspend funding to the United Nations agency over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, said: "We are still assessing the situation about the announcement by President Trump .and we will assess the situation and we will work with our partners to fill any ...

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Another 634 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ontario, and 54 more deaths

Another 634 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ontario, and 54 more deaths

April 24, 2020

This is the highest number of confirmed cases reported in a single day from the province, but it is also some of the highest amount of testing completed in a single day. And, not long after that briefing, Ford's office confirmed in an email to Narcity that reports that his 95-year-old mother-in-law has contracted the virus in a long-term care home are correct.

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NASA, SpaceX to launch first crewed mission to space

NASA, SpaceX to launch first crewed mission to space

April 24, 2020

Liftoff on May 27 is scheduled for roughly 4:32 PM EDT, when the Earth's rotational position places the launch pad beneath the orbital plane of the International Space Station. It is also the final test flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. Once they arrive at the football-field-size laboratory, they will remain there for an "extended stay", though "the specific duration of the mission is to be determined", NASA said in an announcement on Friday .

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AEW’s Tony Khan Publicly Trades Words With Jacksonville Jaguars Player

AEW’s Tony Khan Publicly Trades Words With Jacksonville Jaguars Player

April 23, 2020

Multiple teams had been under the impression that the Jaguars weren't inclined to trade Ngakoue, at all. The Jaguars placed the franchise tag on Ngakoue and the 25-year-old is not happy about it. He had 11.5 sacks last season - 3.5 more than Ngakoue. The star defensive end goes on to disclose that the two previously agreed on parting ways following the team's Week 14 game vs.

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Lyrid meteor shower dazzles skies with 18 shooting stars every hour

Lyrid meteor shower dazzles skies with 18 shooting stars every hour

April 23, 2020

This year the Lyrids meteor shower will peak on the night of the 22 and 23 of April. Although this year's peak may have passed, some of the shooting stars may be visible on Wednesday evening. As per reports, the Lyrids meteor shower can also be seen in India, more so, for the residents of Hyderabad. The best timings to watch this occurrence is from 10 PM to 4 AM (IST).

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Gov't puts pressure on public companies to return loans

Gov't puts pressure on public companies to return loans

April 23, 2020

The US Senate has approved an economic stimulus package of 480 billion dollars that includes help for small businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic. "After I sign this Bill, we will begin discussions on the next Legislative Initiative with fiscal relief to State/Local Governments for lost revenues from COVID 19, much needed Infrastructure Investments for Bridges, Tunnels, Broadband, Tax Incentives for Restaurants, Entertainment, Sports, and Payroll Tax Cuts to increase Economic ...

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Ontario extends emergency orders into May

Ontario extends emergency orders into May

April 23, 2020

The change comes one day after public health officials said they plan to test all 78,000 residents and 56,000 health-care workers in long-term care homes, despite previously resisting such a measure. Ontario Public Health's daily summary is based on data reported by the regional public health units at 4 p.m. the previous day into the province's database, known as the "integrated Public Health Information System".

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Lyrid meteor shower dazzles in night sky during peak

Lyrid meteor shower dazzles in night sky during peak

April 23, 2020

The Lyrids meteor shower is an annual cosmic event that regularly occurs in April. It is advisable to escape the city lights for the best observation conditions. This is not the best meteor shower there is (based on the number of meteors per hour), but viewing will not be hindered by too much moonlight! But the closer you get to sunrise the brighter the sky is going to become so plan accordingly! You may have some free time because of the COVID-19 pandemic, so why not spend it looking ...

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Popeye, Tom & Jerry Animator Gene Deitch dies at 95

Popeye, Tom & Jerry Animator Gene Deitch dies at 95

April 23, 2020

In 1960, Gene collaborated with Rembrandt to direct Popeye cartoons, and from 1961 to 1962 he directed 13 new Tom and Jerry shorts for Metro Goldyb Mayer (MGM). Later on, he received two nominations for different movies in 1964. The artist, who won many awards in his career , also served as a manager at Terrytoons affiliated to 20th Century Fox.

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SpaceX's Falcon 9 Expertly Launches 60 Starlink Satellites

SpaceX's Falcon 9 Expertly Launches 60 Starlink Satellites

April 23, 2020

However, once done, the new project will make Starlink the world's largest satellite operator in terms of the number of spacecraft it will operate. However, it prompted an investigation joined by NASA before the commercial crew flight on May 27 that will carry NASA astronauts using a Falcon 9.

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Veteran Jaguars Defensive End Yannick Ngakoue Really Wants Out of Jacksonville

Veteran Jaguars Defensive End Yannick Ngakoue Really Wants Out of Jacksonville

April 23, 2020

A league source said the Jaguars are seeking at least a first-round pick for Ngakoue, and that although teams have called to talk about him, no team has submitted an offer for him. "Smh you spoiled bra. holding up people for no reason". Tony Khan responded saying that "it's a new regime". Only good trade compensation will do that.

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Lyrids, the First Meteor Shower of Spring, to Peak on Tuesday, Wednesday

April 22, 2020

Bright meteors from the Lyrid shower were captured by NASA's network that was created to monitor fireball events. The shower has been observed for over 2,600 years and in mid-April, Earth finds itself in the cross hairs of this stream of space junk which originates from the constellation Lyra .

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ALMA reveals unusual composition of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov

ALMA reveals unusual composition of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov

April 22, 2020

In the cloud of gas that the comet started to emit as it neared the Sun, a team of astronomers detected more carbon monoxide than they've ever seen in a comet within 300 million kilometres (180 million miles) of the Sun. This suggests that the comet may have formed under different circumstances than those in our own solar system. Some of this might be related to where in the solar system a comet was formed; some has to do with how often a comet's orbit brings it closer to the Sun and leads ...

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NASA spots fireballs from Lyrid meteor shower 2020

April 22, 2020

She told PA: "In order to see a meteor shower one must be somewhere shielded from city lights". Shooting stars are celestial debris which burn up as they hit the Earth's atmosphere, turning into handsome, sparkling flashes of light. The Lyrid meteor shower of 2020 will be at its best overnight, but NASA has already captured some "shooting stars" with cameras across the United States.

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Scientists discover bizarre chemical composition inside 'alien' comet

Scientists discover bizarre chemical composition inside 'alien' comet

April 21, 2020

This research is published online on 20 April 2020 in the journal Nature Astronomy . Observations showed that the comet leaves gas, containing an unusually large amount of carbon monoxide. The large amount of CO ice in the comet suggests that Oumuamua comes from an extremely cold system. Dennis Bodewits who is based at Auburn University, Alabama, US and his worldwide team of colleagues suggest that given the abundance of CO to H2O in the comet, 2I/Borisov possibly originated around an ...

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Where to see the meteor shower tonight?

Where to see the meteor shower tonight?

April 21, 2020

The Lyrids typically show off up above the southern hemisphere between April 16 and 25, but astronomy-loving experts believe late night on April 22 is when the shower will be at its brightest, and most visible to the naked eye. DON'T MISSCoronavirus lockdown: How will the lockdown end? Look through your window tonight after midnight, when the skies will be at their darkest.

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NASA targets May 27 for historic SpaceX crew mission

NASA targets May 27 for historic SpaceX crew mission

April 20, 2020

Behnken will be the joint operations commander for the mission, responsible for activities such as rendezvous, docking and undocking, as well as Demo-2 activities while the spacecraft is docked to the space station. Boeing also is working to launch astronauts under NASA's commercial crew program, but the company's effort suffered a serious setback following last December's botched test flight.

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EPA's Mercury Rule Disregards Inconvenient Science, Putting Public Health at Risk

EPA's Mercury Rule Disregards Inconvenient Science, Putting Public Health at Risk

April 19, 2020

It is clear that the two main purposes of this rule are to offer a handout to the dying coal industry and to eliminate a standard of considering "co-benefits" such as human health. Prior to this rule, the EPA found that 1 in 6 babies born in the US had risky amounts of mercury in their bodies. However, complying with the rule cost utilities less than Obama estimated, at a final price tag of around $3 billion a year from 2012 to 2018.

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Revival of cold war? Russian Federation tests 'anti-satellite' weapon!

Revival of cold war? Russian Federation tests 'anti-satellite' weapon!

April 19, 2020

They will have the ability to jam more frequencies and will be lighter in weight, he said . Less has been disclosed about its offensive role, which centers on Meadowland. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) warned back in January a year ago that China and Russian Federation both consider space to be "important to modern warfare" and said the US should be prepared.

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NASA Will Launch in May from American Soil After 9 Years

NASA Will Launch in May from American Soil After 9 Years

April 19, 2020

The other company is Boeing , which is developing its own Starliner spacecraft but hasn't launched a crewed mission yet. NASA announced the winners of the relevant tender in the framework of the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) in September of the same year, the American companies Boeing and SpaceX .

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NASA Sets Date For Crewed SpaceX Launch

NASA Sets Date For Crewed SpaceX Launch

April 19, 2020

Having a life-long interest in crewed space flight, Desforges' passion materialized on a family vacation in 1999 when he was able see the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-96. Two astronauts will be heading to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 27 from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The returned capsule was accidentally destroyed during ground testing at Cape Canaveral, further delaying the astronaut launch.

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Drought in Western US May Be One for the Ages

Drought in Western US May Be One for the Ages

April 19, 2020

And according to a study published this week in the journal Science , anthropogenic climate change is at least partially to blame. United States The drought in the southwestern United States that lasted from 2000 to 2018 is not a surprise, given how bad the climate crisis is right now.

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Scientists reveal planet most similar to Earth found by NASAs Kepler #67077

Scientists reveal planet most similar to Earth found by NASAs Kepler #67077

April 19, 2020

Additionally, the quantity of starlight it receives from its host star is 75% of the quantity of sunshine Earth receives from our Sun - that means the exoplanet's temperature could also be much like our planet's, as nicely. Kepler-1649c is 300 light years from Earth. The scientists are now keen on unearthing more information about this planet. A comparison of Earth and Kepler-1649c.

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Lyrid Meteor Shower April 2020

Lyrid Meteor Shower April 2020

April 19, 2020

Annually, the Lyrid meteor bathe is predicted from round April 16 to 25, however this 12 months astronomers count on it to streak from Sunday to April 30. These trains can be observable for several seconds. This will allow according to the astronyms to spot the shooting stars in any area of the Earth, the best time to observe the skies will be between midnight and dawn and it is preferable to be in open countryside where light pollution is less present, even if this can be hard for ...

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Shell wants to be a net zero emissions energy business by 2050

Shell wants to be a net zero emissions energy business by 2050

April 18, 2020

The Anglo-Dutch supermajor updated investors on its plans to be net zero on all the emissions from energy products it manufactures (scope 1 and 2) by 2050, Kallanish Energy reports. A month later, Shell rebranded its First Utility brand to Shell Energy, announcing it had switched all of its residential customers to 100% renewables- which garnered some criticism due to its reliance on Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin certificates .

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Star's unusual path around black hole proves Einstein right-again

Star's unusual path around black hole proves Einstein right-again

April 18, 2020

When S2 is at its closest approach to the black hole , it is hurtling through space at 3pc of the speed of light, completing an orbit once every 16 years. It turns out that orbit doesn't remain static - it rotates around the black hole in a rosette shape (think spirograph ) indicative of a Schwarzschild precession .

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This is how NASA team is operating Curiosity rover amid Coronavirus lockdown

This is how NASA team is operating Curiosity rover amid Coronavirus lockdown

April 17, 2020

Typically, members of the Curiosity team spend the day at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. "It was the first time the rover's operations were planned while the team was completely remote", NASA said in a press release .

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The ISS crew lands in Kazakhstan after more than 200 days

The ISS crew lands in Kazakhstan after more than 200 days

April 17, 2020

The Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, as well as NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir , undocked on Friday from the International Space Station (ISS) and started its return to Earth, a broadcast of the Roscosmos space corporation showed.

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Scientists discover potentially habitable planet

April 17, 2020

Kepler-1649c orbits a red dwarf star , which are known for releasing deadly amounts of solar radiation in the form of huge flares. Astronomers analyzing data from the Kepler mission have spotted one such planet that nearly fell through the cracks, and it might be the most Earth-like planet ever discovered.

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