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Comet SWAN puts on a must-see sky show as it becomes visible with binoculars without telescope
Minor Planet Center officially designated comet SWAN25F as C/2025 F2 (SWAN) on April 8. SWAN is an instrument particularly designed to study the Sun ...
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The Asteroid That Was Predicted to Hit Earth: See It in a New Image
A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, ...
How NASA science data defends Earth from asteroids
YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an analysis from NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the agency ...
A New Comet Is Streaking Across the Morning Sky. Catch It Before the Sun Does
The newly discovered comet, C/2025 F2 (SWAN), is racing toward the Sun, and it may not survive its closest approach.
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Scientists Give New Update On "City Destroying" Asteroid-But Don't Worry!
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NASA shares new update on ‘city destroying’ asteroid that was heading towards Earth
NASA have given an update on the behemoth astroid called 2024 YR4 and its size, with the agency revealing that its much ...
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The Earth is safe from asteroid 2024 YR4. The moon? Not so much, Webb telescope finds
The space rock was reported on Dec. 27, 2024, to the Minor Planet Center, the official authority for observing and reporting new asteroids, comets and other small bodies in the solar system. The ...
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Este proyecto mediante peticiones realizadas a la API de COPS, y herramientas de Web scraping para los datos del MPC, extráe la información determinante del cometa solocitado, para luego procesar la ...
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Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds
"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ...
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Married Minnesota lawmaker with four kids accused of soliciting sex from minor
faces charges of soliciting a minor for sex. The state pol was booked into the Bloomington Police Department jail and transported to the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center. Felony charges of ...
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Several planets found orbiting star less than 6 light-years away
A combination of the world's most powerful telescopes detected the planets. Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from ...
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4 rocky exoplanets found around Barnard's Star, one of the sun's nearest neighbors
MAROON-X measures the "radial velocity" — the slight wobble back and forth of Barnard's Star as it revolves around the center of mass shared between itself and the four orbiting planets.