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Planesphere Tablet from the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, Nenveh. British Museum

Podcast Episode 91 l Did this clay tablet describe an ancient asteroid impact?

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Podcast Episode 91 is on an ancient asteroid. Does a clay tablet describe an ancient asteroid impact? Two scientists certainly thought that it described an asteroid hitting earth

ClayTablet Revealing An Ancient Asteroid Impact being held in a hand showing lines and cuneiform inscription (CC BY)

Ancient Star Map Revealed Asteroid Impact

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This is the story of a star map, one which depicted an ancient asteroid impacting Earth over 5,000 years ago.

Features on the Sun's surface, as seen by Solar Orbiter Credit ESA NASA Solar Orbiter EUI Team

The Sun has a fluffy corona

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The Sun has a fluffy corona according to the latest images captured by ESA's Solar Orbiter. The hair-like structures are made of charged gas (plasma), following magnetic field lines emerging from the ...

Black hole week: Plunging into a black hole in a stunning visualisation

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This amazing new visualisation by NASA depicts what it would be like to plunge into a black hole and it is stunning!

Dwarf planet Pluto in False Colour

How Pluto Got its Heart

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How Pluto Got its Heart according to a new study. It happened due to a giant and slow oblique-angle impact on the Dwarf Planet.

Moon phase on Feb 14 2022 as seen in the Northern Hemisphereby NASA LRO

Podcast Episode 87 l How the moon was formed

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Scientists have now answered the questions of how the moon was made in this New Simulation, showing that it formed very quickly after impact with another body called Theia. In this podcast we talk abo...

Moon Impacted by Theia by NASA

How the moon was made l New Simulation

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Scientists have now answered the questions of how the moon was made in this New Simulation, showing that it formed very quickly after impact with another body called Theia.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of our Milky Way black hole released in 2022, has captured a new view of the massive object at the center of our Galaxy: how it looks in polarized light. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarization, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of Sagittarius A*. This image shows the polarized view of the Milky Way black hole. The lines mark the orientation of polarization, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole. Image Credit: EHT Collaboration

A new image of The Milky Way galaxy’s black hole shows magnetic field

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A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*).

This 1,000 year old astrolabe from Verona reveals scientific exchange between Muslims, Jews, And Christians.

1,000 year old astrolabe from Verona reveals scientific exchange between Muslims, Jews, And Christians

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This 1,000 year old astrolabe from Verona reveals scientific exchange between Muslims, Jews, And Christians