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James Webb Telescope Turns Its Attention To The Kuiper Belt

James Miller — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:02:16 +0000

The recently launched James Webb space telescope has been a major success for the astronomical community in its few months of operation. During this time, it has looked at exoplanets, faraway galaxies, nebulas of various ...

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Are Wormholes Fact or Fiction?

James Miller — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:03:17 +0000

Wormholes are a sci-fi trope that everybody has heard of, a swirly (often blue-colored) tube that lets the protagonist jump between large distances or to other worlds. Of course, wormholes of this type are pure ...

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Are We Alone? Some Scientists Certainly Think So.

James Miller — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 19:27:34 +0000

Life on Earth is plentiful and nearly all-encompassing to the point where it is hard to truly imagine what a ‘lifeless’ area would look like. Nevertheless, we have only to look away from the Earth ...

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Astronomy and the Study of Black Holes

James Miller — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:42:41 +0000

Black holes have been an object of fascination ever since Einstein predicted them in 1916 using his then newly developed theory of general relativity. We have come a long way since then. Kip Thorne calculated ...

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The Search For Planet 9 Continues

James Miller — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:06:02 +0000

We have been stuck with 8 planets in our solar system ever since Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006. This ‘injustice’ may be corrected soon though, as astronomers believe that there might ...

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It’s Not Meteorite Size But Impact Site That Matters

James Miller — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 20:00:33 +0000

We are all familiar with the Armageddon-type movies where a giant meteorite comes racing towards the Earth with remarkably short notice, only to be stopped at the last moment by a crew of handsome scientists. ...

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What is ESA’s Killer Asteroid-Deflecting Mission?

James Miller — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 11:52:59 +0000

The last few years have been difficult, with many disasters, including the pandemic that is still affecting us. Because of this, it has become popular to ‘predict’ the next disaster, with many online saying that ...

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James Webb Finally to Launch for Real this Time!

James Miller — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:26:28 +0000

The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST for short, is set to launch less than a month from now on the 18th of December, 2021. This is about 7 years after its initial launch date, ...

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A New Type of Ocean World Discovered!

James Miller — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 10:18:53 +0000

Discovering a planet is a feat on its own that not too many people can boast. Now imagine discovering a new type of planet, one that has high chances of harboring life to boot. Dr. ...

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Jeff Bezos Journeys 107 kms Above Earth

James Miller — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 13:21:09 +0000

Jeff Bezos and his co-flyers joined a very exclusive club of those who visited space on the 20th of June. This on board of his very own space tourism project called Blue Origin. The flight ...

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