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This Black Hole Is Bending Light Back Toward Itself
Scientists think that they’ve spotted a black hole’s gravity bending light emitted from the disk of matter around it right back toward the black hole, according to a new paper.
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Boeing Says It Will Redo Critical Unmanned CST-100 Starliner Test It Borked Last Year
Boeing is calling a mulligan on the failure of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to reach proper orbit in an unmanned test for NASA last year and will conduct another before it tries to use it to launch astronauts, the Washington Post reported Monday.
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NASA Fixes Probe On Mars By Hitting It With A Shovel
Every wrencher knows that sometimes the only cure for a misbehaving machine is to just hit the damn thing. The finely tuned machines of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are no exception. Even a whole planet away, with different gravity and no magnetic field, machines just work better with the application of a little…
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How The Moon Formed
How the Earth got its moon is a long debated question. The giant impact theory ” which states that the Moon formed from the a collision between the early Earth and a rocky body called Theia ” has become the front runner among the explanations. But the details around how this happened are blurry and…