It's almost that time of year again for most of the people in Japan. Children and adults alike are preparing for the Tanabata Festival on July 7th, one of the biggest festivals of the year. Streamers are now...
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" WOLONG NATURE RESERVE, China -- The man traces the panda's paw with his finger as she laps milky formula from a metal bowl. He strokes her head and tries to wipe her snout when she finishes, but she bats his hand away and curls into a forward roll, hiding her face. Then...
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The Milky Way galaxy weighs about 1 trillion times as much as our sun, according to a new estimate.
Previous estimates had ranged from 750 billion solar masses to up to 2 trillion. Lately, researchers have...
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"Named G1.9+0.3, the supernova in the constellation Sagitarius is some 140 years old and was detected through radio and X-ray telescopes, since the original, dazzling explosion was hidden from view by a dense field of gas and dust near the galaxy center, where it took...
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"Monty Python comedian Eric Idle in his popular Galaxy Song has it that our galaxy is 100,000 light years side-to-side and 16,000 light years thick.
One of the world's leading astronomers said Wednesday that one of the world's funniest songwriters was more accurate than...
"The astronomers believe these "intermediate mass" black holes are invisible except in rare circumstances and have been spawned by mergers of black holes within globular clusters -- swarms of stars held together by their mutual gravity.These black holes are unlikely to pose a...
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"In an article titled “The Return of the Static Universe and the End of Cosmology", two researchers suggest that we are making our observations in a unique period of time.
This time of measurement is unique in...
"The sun and Earth will probably be spun out into a lonely region of space when the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies finish colliding about five billion years from now, researchers say in a new study."
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" Sara Goudarzi Staff Writer SPACE.com Mon Nov 27, 9:00 AM ET The stellar baby boom period of the Milky Way sparked a flowering and crashing of life here on Earth , a new study suggests. Some 2.4 billion years ago when the Milky Way started upping its star production, cosmic...
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