humanity is improve a planetary defense – at least against external threats from outer space, as long as they’re just dumb rocks that follow the laws of physics. And a group of extraordinary humans proved it last week when the planetary defense community stepped in to accurately track and predict exactly where a relatively small …
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Earlier this year, astronomers found an absolute monster of a galaxy. Hidden some 3 billion light-years away, Alcyoneus is a giant radio galaxy reaching 5 megaparsecs in space. It’s 16.3 million light-years long, and it is the largest known structure of galactic origin. This discovery sheds light on our poor understanding of these colossi and …
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Image: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Center of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology On a clear night last February, a sophisticated astronomical camera perched on top of a California mountain opened its eyes to the sky after being turned off for several days due to problems. The timing turned out to …
An MIT study shows that keeping indoor humidity at an ideal location can reduce the spread of COVID-19. New research links very dry and very humid indoor environments to the worst COVID-19[feminine] First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, as COVID-19, or coronavirus disease 2019, (originally called "2019 novel coronavirus" or 2019-nCoV) is an infectious …
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