The largest spot of trash on Earth is in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but there is another area over our heads that holds and continues to gather huge amounts ...

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When someone speaks of space, the area above our heads where the stars and planets sit, where are they talking about? Where exactly does space begin after someone leaves the ...

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Astronomers have long wondered where comets came from. Where would something made of frozen gases, rock, and dust originate only to be observed and then reappear after a very long ...

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In 1988, the Soviets launched a new type of spacecraft that had an almost identical appearance to the Space Shuttle belonging to the United States. The Soviets didn’t just copy ...

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Parkes Observatory in Australia In March 2015, astronomers at Parkes Observatory in Australia were trying to identify the source of radio signals picked up at the observatory and came up ...

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In 2002, astronomers at Johns Hopkins University conducted a study to determine the color of the universe from the light we see. They averaged the light emitted from a large ...

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CERMA, 1963 It’s well known that dogs, monkeys, and chimps made their way into space, which paved the way for humans to do the same. But did you there know ...

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In the mid-1970s, a tiny island off the Labrador coast of Canada was discovered for the first time through images a satellite far overhead had sent back to Earth. This ...

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Black hole Cygnus X Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss Black holes are the enigma of the universe. They are the only things in the cosmos known to use their incredible gravitational force to ...

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On June 30, 1908, just after seven in the morning, an explosion took place near the Stony Tunguska River in Central Russia that became the largest impact with Earth in ...

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In 1975, the Soviet Union did something that had never been done in space before. They fired a gun from a space station, the one and only time such a ...

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