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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kevin Gill/Flickr CC BY 2.0 A strange planet was discovered in May 2020, 855 light-years from Earth in the Hercules constellation, that is five times larger than Jupiter and has ...
On September 13, 1985, U.S. Air Force pilot, Major Wilbert “Doug” Pearson, shot down a satellite while piloting an F-15A Eagle fighter aircraft. He became the first pilot ever to ...
Astronauts can’t just pull off their helmets and take a big whiff to discover what the smell of space is like, but they have discovered that space has a distinct ...
NASA/JPL Here is a collection of completely random facts about a fascinating blue planet very far from us that is named after a god of the sea. The planet Neptune. ...
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