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The LISA space gravity interferometer project has passed the preliminary verification phase and has been approved
Now scientists will start working on the project in detail, the launch is scheduled for the mid-2030s LISA will consist of three spacecraft located at a distance of 2.5 million kilometers from each other. The devices will be “connected” by laser beams that allow measuring the curvature of space-time. Such a giant interferometer detector larger…
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In the USA, a centrifuge cannon was tested to launch satellites into space
Launching satellites using traditional rockets is quite expensive. In this regard, many engineers are looking for alternative ways: for example, to launch miniature rockets from high-flying aircraft. Spin Launch is developing one of these alternative methods. According to its concept, the device is unwound in a centrifuge with centripetal acceleration up to 10 thousand g,…
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The star from the constellation Aquarius recorded six planets
The star K2-138 is located at a distance of 792 light-years from our planet. It is colder than the Sun. Back in 2018, astronomers received data about the star using the Kepler orbiting telescope. Then they determined that five planets revolve around the star K2-138. It also turned out that the planets revolve around their…
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Some planets may be more habitable than Earth
Earth doesn’t have to be the best planet in the universe. There are already two dozen known planets outside our Solar System that may have conditions more suitable for life than on Earth. Potential “superhabitable” planets may be significantly older, slightly larger, slightly warmer, and possibly wetter than Earth. Life could also develop more easily…
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Aliens look almost the same as humans
More and more complex molecules are found in meteorites that have fallen to Earth. And now a new study by Japanese scientists reports that all the key “letters” of the genetic alphabet, DNA and RNA have been found in the heavenly stones. But what is the genetic alphabet? These are adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and…
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The exact year in which life will cease to exist on Earth was named by scientists from the NASA space agency
They managed to figure it out thanks to a large-scale computer model that has been run more than 400,000 times. According to calculations, the last day for life on Earth should come in the year 1000 002 021. It is at this moment that deoxygenation will reach peak values – an inevitable consequence of an…
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The chief astrophysicist of Great Britain Martin Rees called the plans of the founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk to colonize Mars a dangerous delusion
“Elon Musk’s idea of a million people settling on Mars is a dangerous misconception. Living on Mars is no better than living at the South Pole or on top of Mount Everest,” Rees said during a speech at the World Government Summit in Dubai. American astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson agreed with him. In his opinion,…
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Saturn’s moon Titan has many similarities with Earth
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is distinguished by landscapes very similar to those on Earth: rivers and lakes, canyons and sand dunes. The difference is that on Titan, this landscape is formed by radically different substances from those on Earth: liquid methane flows through the riverbeds, and sand dunes are formed by other hydrocarbon compounds. For…
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A space jellyfish appeared in space above the Earth
After the launch of the Agnara-1 rocket.2″ a rare phenomenon appeared in the sky from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. The trail of the space jellyfish hung for quite a long time. The jellyfish bloomed high in space, so if there was cloud cover, no one would have noticed it. Space jellyfish is a phenomenon associated with…
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The Arab station Al Amal has discovered a new kind of auroras on Mars
The Arab station Al Amal has discovered a new type of auroras on Mars, called winding discrete auroras. They are characterized by a large extent and were observed in the ultraviolet wavelength range, according to the mission’s Twitter account. Sinuous discrete auroras extend for several thousand kilometers, from the day to the night side of…
