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This Is The Only Meteorite That Has Landed On Earth Twice
This Is The Only Meteorite That Has Landed On Earth Twice
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A lost ship filled with gold found in the middle of a desert. Lost for almost 500 years
The discovery of a ship that disappeared five hundred years ago and was found in a desert in southwest Africa with gold coins aboard has been one of the most exciting archaeological finds of recent years. The Bom Jesus (The Good Jesus)...
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Be careful with the Candiru, the vampire fish from the Amazons
Be careful with the Candiru, the vampire fish from the Amazons
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OTD In Space - April 26: Britain Launches Its 1st Satellite
On April 26, 1962, Britain launched its first satellite, Ariel 1. This made the United Kingdom the third country to have a satellite in orbit after the U.S. and the Soviet Union — but they didn't launch it themselves. Ariel 1 launched on...
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OTD In Space - April 27: NASA Launches Explorer 11
On April 27, 1961, NASA launched Explorer 11, a satellite that contained the first gamma ray telescope to go to space. This marked the birth of space-based gamma ray astronomy. Gamma rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation and have...
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OTD In Space - April 25: STS-31 Deploys Hubble Space Telescope
On April 25, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed! Hubble is famous for taking some of the most amazing deep-space photos ever. It hitched a ride to space on the space shuttle Discovery with mission STS-31. Also on board were...
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OTD In Space - April 24: China Launches Its 1st Satellite
On April 24, 1970, China became the fifth nation to independently launch a satellite into orbit. Dong Fang Hong I was the first of a series of satellites China launched under the Dong Fang Hong space satellite program. It lifted off on a...
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What if a Gamma Ray Burst hit Earth?
An exposure of ten seconds would result in losing a quarter of earth's ozone layer resulting in mass extinction, food chain depletion and mass starvation. Fortunately, Gamma ray bursts are very narrow, thus the Earth is safe as it is not...
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NASA Mars Insight Lander And Dust Devil Tracks Time-Lapse
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured several images of the Insight lander on the Red Planet between 2018 and 2024. See a time-lapse of the imagery here. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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Exoplanet WASP-127b - Extreme Supersonic Winds
The CRIRES+ instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has been used to measure the supersonic jet winds on gas giant exoplanet WASP-127b. Credit: ESO
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OTD In Space - April 23: Ranger 4 Launches On Failed Moon Mission
On April 23, 1962, NASA launched the Ranger 4 mission to the moon. After the first three Ranger missions failed, NASA was really happy with the successful launch of Ranger 4. But the fun didn't last long. After a picture-perfect launch...
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Why are truffles the most expensive food in the world?
Why are truffles the most expensive food in the world?
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This Optical Illusion Reveals How Impatient And Impulsive You Are
This Optical Illusion Reveals How Impatient And Impulsive You Are
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It Might Seem Harmless, But This Little Scrubber Can Cause a Lot of Trouble
It Might Seem Harmless, But This Little Scrubber Can Cause a Lot of Trouble
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OTD In Space - April 22: X-37B Launches On 1st Top-Secret Orbital Mission
On April 22, 2010, the U.S. Air Force launched the super-secret X-37B space plane on its first spaceflight. [ This space plane is also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle. It looks a lot like NASA's space shuttle, only it's much smaller...
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Planets, Lyrid Meteors, The Moon And More In April 2025 Skywatching
Jupiter and the crescent moon start off and end the month together. Find out where to see Mars and Venus as well. The Lyrid Meteor Shower peaks on the night of April 21-22. Amazing globular cluster M3 is also available for skywatchers...
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OTD In Space - April 21: 1st Space Funeral Launches On 'Founders Flight'
On April 21, 1997, the cremated remains of 24 people were launched into space in the first-ever space funeral. One of those people was Gene Roddenberry, the creator of "Star Trek." Other notable people on board included the physicist and...
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Large Black Hole Discovered Through Gravitational Lensing
Learn how a "black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away" using gravitational lensing, according to Durham University. Credit: Durham University
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The gravitational wave background of the universe has been heard for the 1st time
In a historic first, astronomers have detected low-frequency gravitational waves using a galaxy-sized antenna of millisecond pulsars in the Milky Way. For nearly a decade, scientists have been hunting for the gravitational wave...