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“If you think about it like a radio, the search for dark matter is like tuning the dial to search for one particular radio station. Our method is like doing a scan of 100,000 radio stations.” Comments (0). illustration showing a conical silver object …

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Jump to: Observing the sun with the naked eye; Solar glasses; Binocular adapters; Solar filters; Solar telescopes and binoculars; Using shadows; When is the next solar eclipse?

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There are many words that could be used to describe WASP-76b — hellish, scorching, turbulent, chaotic, and even violent. This is a planet outside the solar system that sits so close to its star it gets hot enough to vaporize lead. So, as you can imagine, …

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To remain youthful, the stars bathe in the outer layers of other stars they smash into while being whipped around by the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Comments (0). An illustration shows a massive star cannibalising a smaller star around the …

BBC News

As an astrophysicist and photographer, I always say that eclipses are the consequence of our collective voyage in space. As you read this, you’re riding atop the Earth at about 107,000km/h (67,000mph) as it travels around the Sun – or roughly 30km per …

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New images show a glowing “dashed” line in the night sky above Arizona after part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fell back to Earth following a double-header launch. Comments (0). A dashed line of light in the night sky. Photographer Jeremy Perez captured …

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A NASA astronaut, a Russian cosmonaut and the first female Belarusian in space will leave the space station late tonight (April 5), and you can watch the action live. NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight …

The Washington Post

Scientists refer to “first contact” as the moment that the moon nicks the solar disk — or when the partial phase of the eclipse begins. For those along the path of totality, this will be about one to two hours before totality.

Space.com

This new info will improve scientists’ knowledge of the structure and temperature of the corona, the impact of the sun on Earth’s atmosphere, and potentially help locate stray asteroids circling near our star, NASA officials said.

TIME

Among ancient civilizations who regarded solar eclipses as an evil omen, the sight of the cosmic phenomenon would have been cause for despair. But for many enthusiasts traveling thousands of miles to see the upcoming solar eclipse on April 8, …