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Hubble views a bizarre cosmic quartet
This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a gathering of four cosmic companions. This quartet forms part of a group of galaxies known as the Hickson Compact Group 16, or HCG 16 — a galaxy group bursting with dramatic star formation, tidal tails, galactic mergers and black holes. This ...
Read More »The Un-X Tour 2015
The Un-X Tour 2015 is co-hosted by Un-X News Magazine and Missouri MUFON Second Fridays in June, July, and August Venue: Unity Temple on the Plaza 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112 Charles Filmore Chapel Auditorium – Only 250 seats available (first come – first served) Limited wheelchair ...
Read More »Crashing comets may explain mysterious lunar swirls
Brown University researchers have produced new evidence that lunar swirls — wispy bright regions scattered on the Moon’s surface — were created by several comet collisions over the last 100 million years. In a paper published in the journal Icarus, the researchers use state-of-the-art computer models to simulate the dynamics ...
Read More »Circular orbits of small exoplanets: Which Earth-sized exoplanets are potentially habitable?
Viewed from above, our solar system’s planetary orbits around the sun resemble rings around a bulls-eye. Each planet, including Earth, keeps to a roughly circular path, always maintaining the same distance from the sun. For decades, astronomers have wondered whether the solar system’s circular orbits might be a rarity in ...
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