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The Milky Way and Andromeda are very likely to interact strongly and may merge within a few to several billion years, but recent work shows the outcome and timing aren't certain - there's roughly a ~50% chance of a direct merger and similar odds of a near-miss that delays or avoids a full collision

u/Vast-Feed266 — 7 days ago
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In 57 days, this spacecraft—launched in 1977, now traveling at approximately 17 kilometers per second—will reach a distance from Earth where radio signals, moving at the speed of light itself, require a full day to make the journey. One light-day.

u/Vast-Feed266 — 18 days ago
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The world record for the highest amateur liquid rocket launch has just been broken by The University of Waterloo Rocketry team in Canada. They managed to send their rocket 63,497 feet into the atmosphere, beating the previous record by 6907 feet.

u/Vast-Feed266 — 18 days ago
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The Universal Law of Gravitation was proposed by Isaac Newton. Every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers.

u/AN0R0K — 27 days ago
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What Really Happens Before a Lightning Bolt Appears? Lightning begins with electrical charge separation inside a storm cloud. As water droplets, ice crystals, and hail-like particles collide, they exchange electric charges. This helps create a strong difference in charge between different parts...

u/Vast-Feed266 — 1 month ago
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If we exclude clothes from our lives, we would look just like the other primates. The monkey's hand looks just like yours and mine

u/Vast-Feed266 — 2 months ago
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Soothing spacewalk scenes.NASA’s @astro_anil and ESA’s @soph_astro completed a 6 hour, 23 minute spacewalk to remove a failed communications antenna and stow it outside the International Space Station.

u/Vast-Feed266 — 2 months ago