Monthly Archive:: November 2015
News
Astronomers have uncovered rhythmic pulsations from a rare type of black hole 12 million light-years away by sifting through archival data from NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)
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Science
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole. A compact source of X-rays that
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Science
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has spotted a star system that could have left a “zombie star” after an unusually weak supernova explosion. A
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News
Photo Credit: Israel Defense Forces/Flickr A 72-hour ceasefire by Israel-Hamas came into effect at 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) on Tuesday. It was the 29th day of Operation Protective Edge.
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News
NASA’s Mars Rover 2020 is being readied to carry out ambitious projects on the red planet, including an attempt to produce oxygen using carbon dioxide from the Martian
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Health
Photo: Sarah C/Flickr Regular use of birth control pills can place women at greater risk of breast cancer; the risk, however, depends entirely upon the contents of the contraceptive
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