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Dead Star Creates 150 Light-Year Large “Hand of God”

The space photo of the week is this beautiful photo of pulsar PSR B1509-58. In 2014, NASA's NuSTAR telescope photographed this pulsar...

This is – as far as we know now – the first giant to inhabit the earth

Researchers have unearthed the fossilized remains of an as-yet-unknown marine reptile, measuring up to 17 meters in length from caudal fin to snout! While dinosaurs...

Aliens may have single-handedly crafted a livable spot in the clouds of Venus

Chemical processes may create self-sustainable and habitable 'bubbles' in the Venusian atmosphere where life can thrive. It's hard to imagine a more inhospitable world than...

It’s finally here: the long-awaited launch of the James Webb telescope is coming

Tomorrow, Christmas Day, the mission of the most powerful space telescope ever built will begin. Our patience and that of countless others has been put...

Giant Viking longhouse discovered in Norway

With a length of 60 meters it is one of the largest longhouses ever found in Scandinavia. Vikings are known to build so-called longhouses; ...

Sometimes a wildfire is also good for the climate

Although wildfires often bring death and destruction, well-controlled fires could just offset part of our CO2 emissions. Scientists are currently looking for ways to capture...

Why only comet heads are green

Comet Lovejoy was also in a green coma. (Image: John Vermette) At the moment another comet is racing through the inner solar system -...

Secret of fishy La Ola waves revealed

Thousands of individuals move in a coordinated manner: What is the function of the often complex schooling behavior of fish? In the case...

No less than seventy lonely planets discovered

A great success, because never before have so many such mysterious galactic nomads been tracked down simultaneously. By solitary planets we mean solitary, wandering specimens...

You can feel, see and.. hear climate change!

There is music in melting glaciers. The earth is warming. And that causes glaciers on, for example, Greenland and Spitsbergen to melt. This...

Scientists discover unknown muscle layer in the jaw

Even in the human body there is apparently still plenty to discover. You may think that scientists have a good idea of ​​the human body....

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