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- Ali Sundermier for Business InsiderOct 11 ’16
The strongest evidence of the big bang was almost mistaken for pigeon droppings
It was the low, hissing sound of static, like what you might hear if you tuned your radio between stations. The year was 1963, and all Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias, a pair of radio astronomers at Bell Laboratories, wanted to measure was the minimum…
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- Ali Sundermier for Business InsiderOct 06 ’16
Massive dust storms could threaten plans to colonize Mars and save humanity — but scientists are getting closer to predicting them
If you’ve seen “The Martian,” you might remember the violent dust storm that kicked off the movie. It was the one that pummeled the crew with 105 mph winds, struck Matt Damon’s character with a rogue piece of shrapnel, and swept him off into the dist…
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- Ali Sundermier for Business InsiderOct 05 ’16
A cosmic ‘dustbuster’ has revealed a breathtaking image of stars that were previously hidden from view
About 1,600 light years away, in the constellation Orion, an interstellar cloud of gas and dust called Messier 78 is hiding a stellar nursery of young and unborn stars.
As explained in a press release, new stars form inside the nebula out of “dust gra…
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- Sep 30 ’16
Here are the last photos a star-crossed robot took before killing itself on a comet
In the wee morning hours of September 30, the European Space Agency crashed its Rosetta space probe into Comet 67P, which it had orbited for about two years.
Below is the final photo the space probe took and beamed back to Earth shortly before slammin…
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- Sep 29 ’16
Elon Musk says he won’t be the first person on Mars because he doesn’t want to die
On Tuesday, Elon Musk gave a keynote talk at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he outlined SpaceX’s ambitious plan to colonize Mars. Musk made it clear that he wants to make a “ticket to Mars” within reach fo…
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- Ali Sundermier for Business InsiderSep 28 ’16
Elon Musk: ‘Bereid om te sterven? Dan ben je kandidaat voor de reis naar Mars’
Elon Musk wil Mars koloniseren. En iedereen die hem daarbij kan helpen, moet daartoe in staat zijn. De prijs voor een ‘ticket’ moet omlaag naar 200.000 dollar. Dat zei hij dinsdag in Mexico op een astronautisch congres.
De man achter het luxueuze elek…
- Ali Sundermier for Business InsiderSep 27 ’16
Elon Musk: To join SpaceX’s first mission to Mars, you have to be ‘prepared to die’
On Tuesday, Elon Musk gave a keynote talk at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he outlined SpaceX’s ambitious plan to colonize Mars. Musk made it clear that he wants to make a “ticket to Mars” within reach fo…
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- Ali Sundermier for Business InsiderSep 27 ’16
We’re about to deliberately crash a $1.5 billion spacecraft into a comet
On September 30, the European Space Agency (ESA) is going to reunite two star-crossed spacecrafts as it crashes its Rosetta space probe into Comet 67P, which it’s been orbiting for about two years.
Back in 2014, this tortured love story gripped the wo…
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- Ali Sundermier for Business InsiderSep 23 ’16
99.9999999% of your body is empty space
Some days, you might feel like a pretty substantial person. Maybe you have a lot of friends, or an important job, or a really big car.
But it might humble you to know that all of those things – your friends, your office, your really big car, you yours…
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- Ali Sundermier for Business InsiderSep 18 ’16
The sun will destroy Earth a lot sooner than you might think
There are plenty of ways Earth could go. It could smash into another planet, be swallowed by a black hole, or get pummeled to death by asteroids. There’s really no way to tell which doomsday scenario will be the cause of our planet’s demise.
But one t…
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