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Mysterious Travelers: Are We Drinking Water Delivered by Dark Comets?

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New research suggests that dark comets, which make up up to 60% of near-Earth objects, may originate in the asteroid belt and may carry subsurface ice that may have contributed to Earth’s water. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Research from the University of Michigan shows that as many as 60% of objects near Earth are dark comets. These … Read more

Hubble Telescope Tracks Dwarf Galaxy Stars to Map Dark Matter

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The Draco dwarf is a faint, star-poor but dark-matter rich galaxy. Here we see Hubble zooming in on some of its stars.

The Hubble Space Telescope has shown that dark matter is concentrated in the core of a nearby dwarf galaxy, a discovery that comes to the aid of the Standard Model of Earth. cosmology. This model basically predicts that dark matter is “cold,” but recent findings seem to indicate that the substance is “warm.” However, these … Read more

Astronomers suggest that up to 60% of objects close to Earth could be dark comets

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Source: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain According to a study by the University of Michigan, up to 60% of objects near Earth could be dark comets. These are mysterious asteroids that orbit the sun in our solar system and probably contain or once contained ice. These asteroids could have been one of the routes for delivering water … Read more

Northern Lights have a dark side, scientists warn as damage on the ground is discovered

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NASA scientists are warning of a hidden, dark side to the dazzling Northern Lights. The visual phenomenon, also known as Aurora Borealis, can cause long-term damage to critical infrastructure at ground level. The risk of damage to nuclear infrastructure is greater during severe geomagnetic stormsSource: Alamy According to the new research report, the aurora borealis … Read more

Ancient stone circles in Norway hide a dark secret: dozens of children’s graves

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An aerial view showing many round, concentric circles of rocks marking the graves

Archaeologists are puzzled by the discovery of dozens of Bronze and Iron Age child graves in southern Norway. The graves, each marked by circles of precisely placed stones, were found last year by a team from the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History near Fredrikstad, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Oslo, close to the … Read more

We need to consider alternatives to dark matter that better explain cosmological observations

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Do the constants of nature — the numbers that govern how things behave, like the speed of light — change over time as the universe expands? Does light get a little tired of traveling vast cosmic distances? Dark matter and dark energy were once thought to explain these cosmological phenomena, but recent research suggests that … Read more

Long Dark developer slams Manor Lords for lack of updates, Hooded Horse CEO responds saying not every game has to be a ‘live service boom or bust’

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The publishers of recent city-building sensation Manor Lords and survival-sim giant The Long Dark are locked in a mostly amicable spat over how many major updates a game in Early Access should receive and the potential consequences of doing so, such as developer overwork and loss of player interest.

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Dark matter may consist of particles that travel faster than the speed of light

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Have you ever wondered what the secrets of the universe are? Dark matter, dark energy, particles moving at lightning speed – these are the central focuses of recent cosmic mysteries. Imagine sharing our universe with particles that travel faster than light, known as tachyons. This is the bold new theory presented by scientists Samuel H. … Read more

New Moon July 2024: Dark skies tonight as Earth is furthest from the Sun today

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A horizontal green line bisects through the middle. At its center, a bright yellow circled labeled Sun. Blue lines that for a long downward slanted C connect stars to show a constellation.

The July 2024 New Moon occurs today, when Earth reaches its furthest point from the Sun, known as aphelion. According to the U.S. Naval Observatory, the new moon will occur on July 5 at 6:57 p.m. Eastern Time (22:57 UTC), and two days later the young moon will pass Mercury in the evening sky. Earth … Read more

Scientists use two new quantum methods to catch dark matter suspects

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A purple orbit against a dark background with a boxout showing a white room containing two crouching people attending to a complex gold machine

The hunt for dark matter is about to get a lot cooler. Scientists are developing supercold quantum technology to hunt for the universe’s most elusive and mysterious matter, which currently poses one of science’s greatest mysteries. Despite the fact that dark matter outnumbers the amount of ordinary matter in our universe by about six times, … Read more