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The extremely active black hole at the galaxy's center is consuming material so fast that the material is glowing as it spins into the black hole's center, forming a luminous quasar. Quasars create intense energy that was thought to halt all star birth and drive a ...

Dust off those binoculars and keep your eyes on the skies, as the twelfth full moon of 2020 is fast approaching. As one of 13 full moons to admire in 2020, November's moon was dubbed the Beaver Moon by Early Native Americans because beavers typically ...

The US Army is working to better understand the acoustic properties of eVTOL aircraft and co-axial rotors as part of efforts to design quieter, stealthier helicopters. Helicopters have many advantages, but one of their more obvious drawbacks is the loud wop ...

The winners and finalists in Oceanographic Magazine's annual Ocean Photographer of the Year awards have been announced. Canadian photographer (and DPG contributor) Nadia Aly was named Ocean Photographer of the Year for her awesome shot of ...

A workman feared he would lose his hand after a pole collapsed on it causing a him horrific injuries. Jack Moody was at work when the accident happened and was rushed to hospital in a bid to save his severed hand. The 25-year-old, from Colwyn Bay, ...

Japanese lunar exploration startup Ispace Inc. says it will set up a lunar lander development site in the United States by the end of the year in a bid to deliver payloads, including research equipment, to the moon in support of future NASA missions. The Tokyo ...

If you're a fan of stargazing, make sure you mark tomorrow morning off in your diary. A Full Beaver Moon is set to appear, and you don't want to miss it! The Full Beaver Moon will peak at around 09:30 GMT, but will appear full for several days, according to ...

MUST WATCH. What's in a moon's name? 01:04. (CNN) Take a break from online holiday shopping this weekend to enjoy the full moon and a penumbral lunar eclipse. Both events will be visible early Monday morning. Lunar eclipses can only occur during a full ...

The Geminids are so called because the meteors all seem to come from the constellation of Gemini the Twins and are special because they are associated not with a comet but with an asteroid called Phaethon.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Larry Crumpler is in the throes of finishing an upcoming book. This entails long days writing. And plenty more writing and editing. ADVERTISEMENTSkip ................................................................ bright spot Alas, the months-long project is ...

Burj Khalifa is the world's tallest building with a height of 829.8 metre and asteroid 2000 WO107, which was discovered in 2000, has a diameter is 820 metre. According to the space agency, the asteroid ...

ABOVE VIDEO: Making ready for the first Artemis mission around the Moon and back, the space station is getting a new doorway to space, and how to know when and where you can look up to spot the station … a few of the stories to tell you about – This ...

Scientists have used nanopores (extremely small pores) and electric current to devise a new method to identify viruses. The method will be a breakthrough in new, fast and accurate tests for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), they claimed. The study ...

China has live streamed footage of its new manned submersible parked at the bottom of the Mariana Trench as part of a historic mission into the deepest underwater valley on the planet. Key points: Fendouzhe is being used to observe the species that live on ...

NASA engineers have started collecting the enormous rocket meant to take the main lady to the moon not long from now as a feature of the Artemis program. Stacking operations began on November 19 with engineers transporting a booster segment from the ...

With NASA's Eyes on the Earth web-based app, you can tag along with the U.S.-European satellite as it orbits the globe, gathering critical measurements of our changing planet. When Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich was encapsulated in the payload fairing of a ...

City Council has once again imposed their will on us with the mask ordinance, public pressure seems to always win over science and common sense. In the media there is all sorts of noise regarding the effectiveness of not only masks but the dreaded ...

An asteroid named (153201) 2000 WO107, that is more than 800 metre high and over 500 metre wide - bigger than skyscraper Burj Khalifa - will barrel past earth on November 29 and will be closest to our planet at 10.38 am, according to scientists at the ...

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Astronomers have found a distant galaxy that has managed to continue making new stars despite the presence of a disruptive "cold quasar" raging at its core. The discovery was made using the airborne SOFIA telescope, which, mounted in the side of a ...