How many scary asteroids really go past Earth every year? ( phys.org )
What are the risks, by the numbers? How many asteroids hit Earth and how many can we expect to zip past us?
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What are the risks, by the numbers? How many asteroids hit Earth and how many can we expect to zip past us?
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The second-largest planet in our solar system will glow extra-bright with a golden light in the coming days....
Magnetars are some of the most extreme objects we know about, with magnetic fields so strong that chemistry becomes impossible in their vicinity. They’re neutron stars with a superfluid interior that includes charged particles, so it’s easy to understand how a magnetic dynamo is maintained to support that magnetic field. But...
This is El Gordo, a NIRCam medium deep field of a galaxy cluster contains hundreds of galaxies that existed when the universe was 6.2 billion years old....
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Europe, Asia, and Africa have the best view of this partial lunar eclipse, but the northeastern U.S. will still see the final, penumbral stages.