Tag: exoplanet

The Mysterious Interstellar Object Oumuamua
- by Chester McEachern
- 4 weeks ago
- 100 comments
Much ado has been made as of late over the object 1I/2017 U1, or ‘Oumuamua, or in some circles, Rama. The story began on October 19, 2017 at the Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii, home of the Pan-Starrs facility, a group
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Pluto Might Have a Liquid Water Ocean?! | SciShow News
- by Chester McEachern
- 1 month ago
- 100 comments
[ INTRO ] Pluto might once have seemed like the last place in the solar system to look for liquid water, given that its balmiest days peak around negative two hundred twenty-five degrees Celsius. But ever since the New Horizons
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5 “Impossible” Things That Can Happen On Other Planets
- by Chester McEachern
- 2 months ago
- 100 comments
There are some things that are just not possible on our planet. It would certainly be understandable that you would think that if it’s impossible here on Earth, then it would be impossible everywhere else in the universe. But that’s
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10 Things About the Universe That we may Never Understand
- by Chester McEachern
- 3 months ago
- 100 comments
The universe is a very strange place full of mysteries and odd possibilities that, while scientists ceaselessly try to figure them out, may remain complete unknowns forever no matter how advanced our civilization and our science becomes. So here are
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An Earth-Sized Telescope Just Snapped Two Pictures
- by Chester McEachern
- 4 months ago
- 100 comments
The problem with trying to observe black holes is they’re really dark. They don’t release the light from anything they swallow, and anything coming from their surfaces is way too dim to see. Also, black holes are so relatively tiny
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