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2022-06-19 15:46:06 Telescopes, accelerators and LIGO team up to probe neutron stars

Physicists have created a framework for better understanding the super-dense matter inside neutron stars by combining observations from gravitational-wave detectors and conventional telescopes with experimental results from particle accelerators.

The results, from a team, indicate that many neutron stars experience greater degeneracy pressure in their interiors than predicted. As a consequence, some neutron stars have a larger-than-expected radius

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2022-06-19 04:40:05 The famous line in Titanic from Leonardo DiCaprio, “I’m king of the world!” was improvised

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2022-06-18 06:48:01 NASA assigns 2 astronauts to fly on Boeing Starliner's 1st crewed mission

NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams will fly on Crew Flight Test (CFT), Starliner's first crewed mission to the International Space Station, the agency announced on (June 17).

Wilmore will command the mission, with Williams serving as pilot and fellow NASA astronaut Mike Fincke training as backup pilot.

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2022-06-18 06:13:45 'The Color of Space': Watch NASA's new documentary celebrating Black space explorers for Juneteenth

The 50-minute video includes a joint conversation between seven current and former Black astronauts. It airs Sunday, June 19.

The documentary, entitled "The Color Of Space," will be available to watch starting at 12 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT). You can catch it in the video above, or on NASA TV, the NASA app, NASA social media channels, and the agency's website.

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2022-06-17 22:36:02 There were two AI chatbots created by Facebook to talk to each other, but they were shut down after they started communicating in a language they made for themselves.

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2022-06-17 17:21:01 The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science – and it’s seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers hoped for

NASA is scheduled to release the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, 2022.

They’ll mark the beginning of the next era in astronomy as Webb – the largest space telescope ever built – begins collecting scientific data that will help answer questions about the earliest moments of the universe and allow astronomers to study exoplanets in greater detail than ever before.

But it has taken nearly eight months of travel, setup, testing and calibration to make sure this most valuable of telescopes is ready for prime time.

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2022-06-17 06:32:01 If a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Bear mate, their offspring is called a “Pizzy Bear”

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2022-06-16 17:16:52 | Dead Star Caught Ripping Up Planetary System

A star's death throes have so violently disrupted its planetary system that the dead star left behind, called a white dwarf, is siphoning off debris from both the system's inner and outer reaches. This is the first time astronomers have observed a white dwarf star that is consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets

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2022-06-16 08:37:01 One habit of intelligent humans is being easily annoyed by people around them, but saying nothing in order to avoid a meaningless argument.

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2022-06-15 09:39:01 The only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table is J.

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