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Quadrantids Meteor Shower 2020

The 2020’s first major meteor shower is the Quadrantid shower. The best time to watch is late night January 3 until dawn January 4. Northerly latitudes are better. There will…

UFO December 2019 from Minnesota

Track UFOs/Aliens on MUFON

  Here is a pretty cool thing. MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) has an interactive map that shows you all of the UFO sightings and reports they have. If you zoom…

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Are Flat Earthers Just Stupid?? No.

There has been a recent increase in discussions on social media about the “fact” that the Earth is actually flat. There have been sports figures and celebrities who draw attention…

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Astronomers Find Possible Star Behind Supernova Explosion

(Source NASA) – Astronomers may have finally uncovered the long-sought progenitor to a specific type of exploding star by sifting through NASA Hubble Space Telescope archival data. The supernova, called…

Mars Lander Arrives Safely on Surface

(Source NASA) – Mars has just received its newest robotic resident. NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet…

Tough Choice, Man to Mars or Robots to the Universe

This week NASA announced that there are two moons in our own solar system with liquid water oceans. These also contain the chemicals and energy sources needed for life. Cassini scientists announce…

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Space travel visionaries solve Sailing to Nearest Star

Space travel visionaries solve the problem of interstellar slowdown at our stellar neighbor (Source PHL @ UPR Arecibo.) – In April last year, billionaire Yuri Milner announced the Breakthrough Starshot…

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Most Planets are Colder than Thought

There Might be More Planets in the Habitable Zone (Source PHL @ UPR Arecibo) – A common assumption in the search for habitable abodes beyond Earth is that the average…