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Watch live @ 3 pm ET: Lunar eclipse webcast from the Virtual Telescope Project - Space.com 07-Jun-2020

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Watch live @ 3 pm ET: Lunar eclipse webcast from the Virtual Telescope Project - Space.com The Virtual Telescope Project's live show begins at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT). More...

SpaceX-NASA Mission: Lucknow woman gives wings to her dreams - The Tribune India 07-Jun-2020

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SpaceX-NASA Mission: Lucknow woman gives wings to her dreams - The Tribune India More...

Mars may have once had a 'mega moon' and a ring like Saturn - 9News 07-Jun-2020

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Mars may have once had a 'mega moon' and a ring like Saturn - 9News Forget all you thought you know about the red planet; scientists now think Mars may once have had a ring like Saturn and a mega-moon 20 times larger than one of its current moons. More...

World Environment Day 2020: MIT study highlights ill-effects of reflecting sunlight! - The Financial Express 07-Jun-2020

World Environment Day 2020: MIT study highlights ill-effects of reflecting sunlight! - The Financial Express More...

Fossilised remains reveal dinosaur’s last meal it ate 110 million years ago - Republic World - Republic World 07-Jun-2020

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Fossilised remains reveal dinosaur’s last meal it ate 110 million years ago - Republic World - Republic World An armoured dinosaur devoured a meal of tender ferns in western Canada before suffering a sudden death or perhaps drowning in a river or flash flood. More...

In space, no one can hear you campaign: Donald Trump team pulls ad - Deccan Herald 07-Jun-2020

In space, no one can hear you campaign: Donald Trump team pulls ad - Deccan Herald More...

Astronomers measured the shape of the magnetic field of the solar corona - Tech Explorist 07-Jun-2020

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Astronomers measured the shape of the magnetic field of the solar corona - Tech Explorist A new study by IfA graduate student Benjamin Boe,used total solar eclipse observations to measure the shape of the coronal magnetic field with higher spatial resolution and over a larger area than ever before. More...

Drowned? Existing mangroves could fall to sea level rise by 2050 - Reuters 07-Jun-2020

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Drowned? Existing mangroves could fall to sea level rise by 2050 - Reuters By Michael Taylor More...

How is a metal formed? - EurekAlert 07-Jun-2020

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How is a metal formed? - EurekAlert Metal is characterized by free electrons which give rise to its high electric conductivity. But how exactly is a metallic conduction band formed from originally localized electrons and what is the corresponding microscopic picture for the material involved? S… More...

Atmospheric Scientists Discover The Cleanest Air On Earth - Mashable India 07-Jun-2020

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Atmospheric Scientists Discover The Cleanest Air On Earth - Mashable India Atmospheric scientists have discovered a region of the atmosphere above the Antarctic Ocean that is the cleanest expanse of air on Earth. The region of air was found to be free from any kind air pollutants that are released by human activities from around the… More...

We're Very Close to Finding a Solar System like Our Own - Air & Space Magazine 07-Jun-2020

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We're Very Close to Finding a Solar System like Our Own - Air & Space Magazine A newly discovered exoplanet is in a 378-day orbit around a G dwarf star like our own Sun. More...

SpaceX puts 60 new Starlink Internet satellites into orbit - The Rahnuma Daily 07-Jun-2020

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SpaceX puts 60 new Starlink Internet satellites into orbit - The Rahnuma Daily San Francisco, June 4 (IANS) SpaceX has confirmed the successful deployment of a new batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit. “Successful deployment of 60 Starlink satellites confirmed,” SpaceX tweeted late on Wednesday. The launch came less than … More...

Astronomers unveil the magnetic field of the solar corona - Free Press Journal 07-Jun-2020

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Astronomers unveil the magnetic field of the solar corona - Free Press Journal While the world has been dealing with the corona virus pandemic, researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been hard at work studying the solar corona, the outermost atmosphere of the Sun which expands into interplanetary spac… More...

FPJ Fast Facts: 5 things you need to know about Asteroid 2002 NH4 that will fly by Earth today - Free Press Journal 07-Jun-2020

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FPJ Fast Facts: 5 things you need to know about Asteroid 2002 NH4 that will fly by Earth today - Free Press Journal More...

Snowflakes in space? - Tech Explorist 07-Jun-2020

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Snowflakes in space? - Tech Explorist Almost like snowflakes, Hubble captured the stars of the globular cluster NGC 6441 sparkle peacefully in the night sky, about 13,000 light-years from the Milky Way’s galactic center. More...

NASA Awards Northrop Grumman Artemis Contract for Gateway Crew Cabin - India Education Diary 07-Jun-2020

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NASA Awards Northrop Grumman Artemis Contract for Gateway Crew Cabin - India Education Diary NASA has finalized the contract for the initial crew module of the agency’s Gateway lunar orbiting outpost. Orbital Science Corporation of Dulles, Virginia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Gr… More...

Black holes could be like holograms, study - Tech Explorist 07-Jun-2020

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Black holes could be like holograms, study - Tech Explorist Black holes could be like a hologram, where all the information is amassed in a two-dimensional surface able to reproduce a three-dimensional image. More...

Game of space: China launches new online satellite shopping service - Pineville 07-Jun-2020

Game of space: China launches new online satellite shopping service - Pineville Photo: VCGPlacing your order for a satellite plus data service via a click on your cell phone is no longer a faraway dream, after China's space industry giant More...

New study suggests this extremely dense star cluster is stunting planet formation - TNW 07-Jun-2020

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New study suggests this extremely dense star cluster is stunting planet formation - TNW Using the Hubble Space Telescope researchers have conducted a pioneering 3-year study of the massive dense young star cluster Westerlund 2. In the process, discovering that dense clouds ... More...

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide in air hits new record high - India Today 07-Jun-2020

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Heat-trapping carbon dioxide in air hits new record high - India Today The world hit another new record high for heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, despite reduced emissions because of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists announced Thursday. More...

World’s oldest bug discovered - Tech Explorist 07-Jun-2020

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World’s oldest bug discovered - Tech Explorist Kampecaris obanensis is a 425-million-year-old millipede fossil from the Scottish island of Kerrera is the world’s oldest bug — older than any known fossil of an insect. More...

Stunning strawberry moon thrills skywatchers - Fox News 07-Jun-2020

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Stunning strawberry moon thrills skywatchers - Fox News Across the globe, skywatchers have been enjoying the stunning June full moon or strawberry moon. More...

Astronomers discover Earth and Sun`s `mirror image` - WION 07-Jun-2020

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Astronomers discover Earth and Sun`s `mirror image` - WION The KOI-456.04, which is less than twice the Earths size, orbits Kepler-160 at a distance similar to that between Earth and Sun and within the habitable zone. More...

SpaceX opens era of amateur astronauts, cosmic movie sets - Free Press Journal 07-Jun-2020

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SpaceX opens era of amateur astronauts, cosmic movie sets - Free Press Journal More...

#PrideMonth Amid the pandemic, the pride marches on, virtually - Times of India 07-Jun-2020

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#PrideMonth Amid the pandemic, the pride marches on, virtually - Times of India Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than two thousand pride marches stand cancelled globally. This, however, hasn’t More...