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An asteroid larger than the Empire State Building is flying past Earth this weekend but we’re just fine • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- June 6, 2020
An asteroid described as larger than the Empire State Building will whizz past Earth, making its closest approach on 6 June. Stretching up to 570 meters across, the space rock is bigger than the iconic skyscraper in the skyline of Manhattan, New York at 381 meters. Although the sheer size of the looming asteroid known
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Earth Day at 50 – what the environmental holiday means today 0
- BUSINESS
- April 22, 2020
The millions of people who demonstrated on the first Earth Day wouldn’t look out of place in an Extinction Rebellion rally or youth climate strike today. Their chants and banners – decrying pollution, war and waste – are familiar, but 50 years have passed since April 22 1970. What can activists today learn from the
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NASA’s TESS probe discovers an exoplanet about three times the size of the Earth 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- February 10, 2019
Artistic illustration of TESS spacecraft observing the exoplanet. Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre NASA’s planet hunting probe TESS has discovered a third exoplanet outside our Solar System. Dubbed HD 21749b, it is described as a “sub-Neptune” exoplanet but is about three times the size of the Earth. According to Scientists, HD 21749b orbits a dwarf star which
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