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Harvard researchers are proposing a new way to clear the 'dust and fog' we now see at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. To spot the stars hiding there, they suggest looking for radio waves coming from supersonic stars.For now, the center of Milky Way galaxy is
World's longest known chain of continental volcanoes was discovered in Australia and named as the 'Cosgrove hotspot track'. The track is nearly three times the length of the famous Yellowstone hotspot track on the North American Continent. It runs 2 000 km (
A meteor like, but still unidentified, object was observed falling over Oman on Wednesday night, September 9, 2015, according to Saleh Al Shidhani from the Oman Astronomical Society.The Times of Oman reports that locals in Wilayat of Yanqul in Al Dhahira Governorate
The Earth continues to be slammed this week by a huge solar storm that has raged for several days, Dr. Tamitha Skov of the SpaceWeather.TV reports today. It started on September 7 and has kept us at moderate storm conditions nearly continuously since. Spectacular aurora
A small, but complex mass of solar material gyrated and spun about over the course of 40 hours above the surface of the Sun from September 1 – 3, 2015. It was stretched and pulled back and forth by powerful magnetic forces in this sequence captured by NASA’s Solar
The remains of a major new prehistoric stone monument have been discovered less than 3 km (1.8 miles) from Stonehenge and announced on the first day of the British Science Festival on September 7, 2015. Using cutting edge, multi-sensor technologies the Stonehenge
A new Duke University-led study has revealed the presence of radioactive contaminants in coal ash from all three major US coal-producing basins – Illinois, Appalachian and Powder River basins. Authors found that levels of radioactivity in the ash were up to five times
The Alpine Fault, a major fault line which runs almost the entire length of New Zealand's South Island, has been assumed to be a near vertical crack. However, a new research from Victoria University has revealed the fault line becomes flatter at depth.“What we
The existence of parallel universes may seem like something cooked up by science fiction writers, with little relevance to modern theoretical physics. But the idea that we live in a “multiverse” made up of an infinite number of parallel universes has long be
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A storm with characteristics of both the 'shamal' – long lived and wide reaching dust storm – and 'haboob' – storm fronts that appear as walls of sand and dust – moved across Iraq, Iran and the Persian Gulf region in early September 2015. The storm
