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For The First Time Ever, Astronomers Have Detected Planets Outside Our Galaxy

on February 06, 2018

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SpaceX's Biggest Rocket Ever Is About to Launch Elon Musk's Red Tesla to Mars

on February 06, 2018

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NASA Makes Contact With Satellite Thought Lost 13 Years Ago

on February 01, 2018

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Beam Me Up, Scientists Discover Possible Evidence That We Are Living In A Parallel Universe

I'd just like to take this opportunity to say hello to the infinite number of other James Dawsons who are at this very moment gearing up to blow the infinite number of minds of the infinite number of The Space Academy readers. I say this because, according to science, there are an infinite number of parallel universes that contain infinite versions of ourselves.
Woah, man, woah.
It might sound like the kind of thing you think about after you've taken a bong hit, but apparently in one universe you might be Prime Minister, while in another you could be made of Nutella and at this very moment be facing the prospect of being spread onto a pancake.In the science community, this is known as the theory of the 'multiverse', and a new study has found that a mysterious 'Cold Spot' in space could prove our universe is just one of an everlasting string of realities.
The Cold Spot was formed when the universe formed more than 13 billion years ago. It was first spotted by NASA&…

Asteroid Hits Earth Just Hours After NASA’s ‘Planetary Defence’ Shield Detected It

Pluto, which has a highly elliptical orbit, is an average of 5.91 billion kilometers (3.67 billion miles) from the Sun. Now a minor asteroid impact has once against reminded humanity of its dispiriting impotence in the face of cruel cosmic fate NASA’s Planetary Defence team glimpsed a six-foot-wide asteroid called 2018 LA just a few months ago.

Very few hours later, it hit Earth travelling at 38,000 mph and caused a huge fireball to appear in the sky above Botswana, Africa. ‘This was a much smaller object than we are tasked to detect and warn about,’ said Lindley Johnson, Planetary Defense Officer at NASA Headquarters.
‘However, this real-world event allows us to exercise our capabilities and gives some confidence our impact prediction models are adequate to respond to the potential impact of a larger object.’
Now, you might think that 19 hours between detection and impact is a very short space of time. Think again. Humanity has only detected an asteroid on a collision course a handful…

China Lands on the Moon, Snaps Incredible Never-Before-Seen High-Definition Images

Stunning high-definition photographs of the far side of the Moon have been captured by China's lunar rover, Yutu-2. The images show the dusty lunar terrain pitted with craters, tracks made by Yutu-2 after descent from the Chang'e-4 lander, and Yutu-2's own shadow on the surface on the Moon. They were captured by the rover's panoramic camera , as it makes its way west from its landing site in the South Pole-Aitken basin - an impact crater on the far side of the Moon.
The South Pole-Aitken basin is of interest to scientists because it is believed that an ancient lunar impact may have exposed the Moon's mantle in this area. By studying this region, scientists hope to learn more about the early solar system and Earth, and demonstrate the feasibility of future human and robotic far side missions. Since landing on the moon in January , Chang'e-4 and Yutu-2 have been conducting science and exploration tasks in the Von Kármán crater.
The crater is believed to be composed…

It's Official: Astronomers Have Discovered another Earth

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovered an Earth-like planet circling a nearby star within the Goldilocks zone of our galaxy. Kepler-186f is around 500 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation. The habitable zone, also identified as the Goldilocks zone, is the area around a star within which planetary-mass objects with enough atmospheric pressure can sustain liquid water at their surfaces.

While it has been projected that there are at least 40 billion Earth-sized planets circling in our Milky Way Galaxy, this specific finding is labelled the first Earth-sized planet to be discovered in the habitable zone of another star.
What does this mean?

In addition to Kepler-186f, there are 4 other planets that circle a nearby star within the Kepler-186f system. What this means is that if the neighbouring star to this planet is just like our Sun, then the likelihood of life on this planet exponentially increases.

“We know of only one planet where life survives – Earth. When we hunt for li…

Scientists: Earth Endangered By New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans

Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a sobering new study reports. The research, conducted by the University of Minnesota, identifies a virulent strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge, leaving scientists at a loss as to how to combat them.

“These humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process information. And yet, somehow, they have developed defenses that, for all intents and purposes, have rendered those faculties totally inactive. As facts have multiplied, their defenses against those facts have only grown more powerful.” Davis Logsdon, one of the scientists who contributed to the study, said.
While scientists have no clear understanding of the mechanisms that prevent the fact-resistant humans from absorbing data, they theorize that the strain may have developed the ability to intercept and discard information enroute from the…

70 Percent Of People Say They Can Hear This Silent Gif. So What The Hell Is Going on?

Gifs are short, silent animations. Unlike videos, they carry no sound files within them. Which is why it's extremely odd that a lot of people online claim to be able to hear one.
Does anyone in visual perception know why you can hear this gif? pic.twitter.com/mcT22Lzfkp — Lisa DeBruine 🏳️‍🌈 (@LisaDeBruine) December 2, 2017
It's a gif you've probably seen before as it resurfaces every few months, always with a similar caption: Someone asking "why can I hear this", usually accompanied by a few crying faces to show how distressing they find the experience.
WHY CAN I HEAR THIS GIF 😭pic.twitter.com/8UifgPBk56 — Best Tweet (@BestTwlt) April 17, 2017
The gif, created by Twitter user Happy Toast, has resurfaced again after a scientist put out an appeal for help understanding why people hear a noise. Can you hear it? You're not alone.
Dr Lisa Debruine, a researcher at the University of Glasgow, also included a poll to see how many people could hear the gif. So far, 75 pe…

NASA Releases Time-Lapse Of The Disappearing Arctic Polar Ice Cap

NASA posted this video to YouTube with this description:

“Arctic sea ice has not only been shrinking in surface area in recent years, it’s becoming younger and thinner as well. In this animation, where the ice cover almost looks gelatinous as it pulses through the seasons, cryospheric scientist Dr. Walt Meier of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center describes how the sea ice has undergone fundamental changes during the era of satellite measurements.”

According to Einstein Time is an Illusion, and Here is the Proof

Time is actually relative, and flexible and, according to Albert Einstein himself, "the dividing line between past, present, and future is an illusion". Below in the video Prof. Brian Greene explains this concepts beautifully…. So watch and learn.

56 Percent Of Americans Don't Think We Should Teach Arabic Numerals In School

If you grew up in America, you've probably used Arabic numerals pretty much every day of your life in some way. Same if you're English, French, or from most other countries. Even in China and Japan, where other numerals are used (零,Yī, 二, Èr, 三, for example), Arabic numerals are still regularly employed. Unless you're reading this in ancient Rome, you probably use them too.
Nevertheless, a survey conducted by poll company Civic Science has found that 56 percent of Americans would like Arabic numerals (which are the numbers 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, and 9, used in every number right up until infinity) banned in schools. America, your prejudice is showing. In the survey, 3,624 people were asked: "Should schools in America teach Arabic Numerals as part of their curriculum?" to which 2,020 people (56 percent) said "no", and just 29 percent actually said "yes".
The survey was designed to show the tribal impulses of people to answer a question without under…

This GoPro Was Swallowed By Lava, Survived And Recorded The Entire Thing

Have you ever wanted to see what it’s like to get consumed by volcanic lava? Of course you have! Well, we all have and we can finally see for ourselves. Erik Storm, of Kilauea EcoGuides, a tour group based in the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, managed to lose his GoPro camera in a crack that was slowly filling with lava.GoPro’s are advertised as being imperishable, but nobody could have predicted that a tiny bit of technology would be able to withstand the 1,000°C heat of lava.

After the flow of lava had come to a halt and cooled to form rock, Erik broke through and tried to recover what was left of the camera.Speaking to Peta Pixel Erik said:

“I used a geology rock hammer to pull it out of the lava and thought it was a total loss.Not only had most of the camera survived, but it had managed to record everything and was still working”

Erik pulled out the SD card, which had also survived and shared the unbelievable footage on YouTube.

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