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Secret of Stonehenge Builders Revealed and Moon water droplets Apr 17, 2019

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Researchers compared DNA extracted from Neolithic human remains found across Britain with that of people alive at the same time in Europe.

The Neolithic inhabitants appear to have traveled from Anatolia (modern Turkey) to Iberia before winding their way north.

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NASA and SpaceX partner for Asteroid Deflection Mission Apr 15, 2019

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NASA has chosen SpaceX to work on its first-ever attempt to deflect a space rock that's hurtling at high speed in space. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will take flight placed on a Falcon 9 rocket in June 2021 from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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SpaceX makes history and SpaceIL crashes into the Moon Apr 13, 2019

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SpaceX makes history with first ever Falcon Heavy 3 Stage Landing. SpaceIL crash lands its private Moon lander on the surface of the Moon.

Wine Makers Creating Wine for Mars Trip Apr 12, 2019

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Georgia is immensely proud of its ancient wine-making tradition, claiming to have been the first nation to make wine. Now it wants to be the first to grow grapes on Mars

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First Picture of Black Hole : Full Press Conference Apr 10, 2019

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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of a black hole. In coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow.

The shadow of a black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. The black hole’s boundary — the event horizon from which the EHT takes its name — is around 2.5 times smaller than the shadow it casts and measures just under 40 billion km across. While this may sound large, this ring is only about 40 microarcseconds across — equivalent to measuring the length of a credit card on the surface of the Moon.

Although the telescopes making up the EHT are not physically connected, they are able to synchronize their recorded data with atomic clocks — hydrogen masers — which precisely time their observations. These observations were collected at a wavelength of 1.3 mm during a 2017 global campaign. Each telescope of the EHT produced enormous amounts of data – roughly 350 terabytes per day – which was stored on high-performance helium-filled hard drives. These data were flown to highly specialised supercomputers — known as correlators — at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and MIT Haystack Observatory to be combined. They were then painstakingly converted into an image using novel computational tools developed by the collaboration.

The Space Station is Filthy and Glowing Frog Bones Apr 10, 2019

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In this episode we talk about how the ISS is as dirty as an Earth gym and really cool pumpkin toadlets that live in brazil and glow under UV lights.

Sun Probe still alive & private company building Moon Rovers Apr 08, 2019

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, an un-manned spacecraft the size of a small family car, is already the closest man-made object ever to the Sun – now a mere 15 million miles (24 million km) away from its fiery surface. European Space Agency operations specialists are helping flight planners at new European space startup PTScientists, headquartered in Berlin, pilot their way to the moon.

Youtuber Sent McDonalds Big Mac to Space and ate it Apr 07, 2019

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Youtuber, Tom Staniland, known as "Killem" said the goal of his mission wasn't just to launch said burger into space, but to be able to actually eat a burger that had breached earth's atmosphere.

Mars Organic Material Found and ESA Astronaut Barbie Apr 05, 2019

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ALH-77005, a Martian rock found in Antarctica, contains numerous mineralized ‘biosignatures,’ including coccoidal, filamentous structures and organic material, according to a team of scientists from Hungary. The agency and Mattel, the company that makes Barbie, partnered to create two Cristoforetti-look-alike dolls in honor of Barbie's 60th "birthday" this year, according to a statement from the ESA. One of the dolls wears a stylized reproduction of NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit, the suit that astronauts wear on spacewalks, and the other Barbie wears a blue ESA flight suit complete with patches from the agency.

First Ever Private Lunar Lander in Moon Orbit Apr 05, 2019

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An Israeli lander is now orbiting the Moon ahead of a lunar landing on the 11th of April

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