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"The Selfish Biocosm" -A Radical Theory Says We’ve Already Received a Message from ET
Most great scientific advances are first attacked by the the ruling status quo as heretical in either the religious or scientific sense...
Image of the Day: Immense Ring-Like Galaxy Mashup 100,000 Light Years Across
A collision of two galaxies has created a spectacular ring shape on a cosmic scale. The Cartwheel Galaxy is part of a group of galaxies about 500 million...
Supernova of 161,000 B.C. -Closest to Earth with a Glowing Ring 6 Trillion Miles in Diameter
Supernova 1987A, discovered in 1987, is the closest exploding star to Earth to be detected since 1604 and resides in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy adjacent...
Image of the Day: The Weird Beauty of the Cone Nebula (Weekend Feature)
The Cone Nebula, part of a much larger star-forming complex, is at bottom with inverted Christmas Tree cluster NGC 2264 above the cone; the bright...
Darwin’s Secret Island: A Model of How Human Exploration Could Transform Mars
Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island, one of a number of volcanic islands in the middle of the South Atlantic, located 1,600km (1,000 miles) from the coast of Africa and...

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