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Space is a cold and lonely place. We can’t even begin to imagine how large it is either. At any given time there is around 6-10 people in space, usually aboard the international space station. These astronauts will do regular maintenance on the station in the open vacuum of space, supported by a very strong…
We live in a reality where very scary things can turn into very real things very quickly. Vacuum Decay is one of these things. What is Vacuum Decay? To summarise before I get into the details, Vacuum Decay is basically a bubble that expands at the speed of light in every direction, with new physics…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has flown by a very distant icy rock; a rock that allowed the spacecraft to make the most distant flyby in human history. NASA received a signal from one of its most distant spacecraft this morning, confirming that the spacecraft had just flown by a tiny frozen rock in the outer…
This isn’t a Pink Floyd album. In December, the country will launch the first spacecraft ever to land on the far-side of the moon. China’s next two space missions are set to make history, as in December a Chinese spacecraft will land on the far-side of the moon; a part of the moon never visited…
A new study conducted by the University of Groningen suggests that the Milky Way devoured a much smaller galaxy around 10 billion years ago. Amina Helmi, and astronomer at the university says: “This is a major event in the history of the galaxy. We’re really starting to probe the ancestors of the Milky Way.” The team…
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