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Painting an Asteroid to Save Earth

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https://youtu.be/C8tgv9Zl3B4 As an object travels through space it absorbs heat from the sun and emits heat energy in the form of photons. These photons push the asteroid in a certain…

Two Comets Just Made Historic Near-Earth Flybys

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A pair of comets zoomed past Earth over the past few days, and their historic one-two flyby punch was caught on video. A telescope in Chile operated by the online Slooh…

Blue Origin beats SpaceX to re-launching a reusable rocket

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https://youtu.be/74tyedGkoUc Congratulations to Blue Origin for re-launching their suborbital rocket New Shepard. “The booster reached a maximum altitude of 333,582 feet, or 63 miles, above the Earth’s surface, before landing gently…