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Gaia space telescope discovers 55 ‘runaway’ careening away from stellar cluster at 80 times the speed of sound
Using the Gaia space telescope, astronomers have observed 55 massive stars ejected from their home star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud at speeds equivalent to 80 times the speed of sound. Sou...
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Here's a hint: it's not actually the Robotaxi. It's what the EV market really wants, which is a more affordable Tesla Model 2. Source...
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There's too much antimatter in cosmic rays, showers of charged particles that pelt Earth. Could this be explained by annihilating dark matter? Source...
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Tesla hasn’t announced any plans to bring its driverless taxi to Europe, but it probably will after autonomous vehicle standards were recently finalized. Source...
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons Pluto probe have teamed up to image the ice giant Uranus, which will help inform future direct imaging of exoplanets. Source...
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A bad charging experience can be the biggest barrier to EV adoption. ChargePoint and other are trying to change that. Source...
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‘It was 3 hours of magic’: Spectacular auroras thrill stargazers across the world (and internet) as intense geomagnetic storm batters Earth (photos)
A powerful geomagnetic storm illuminated auroras that lit the skies over Earth on Thursday (Oct. 9) after X 2 solar flare that erupted from the sunspot AR 3848 on Tuesday (Oct. 8) evening. Source...
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There are still big questions about how Tesla would actually build a nationwide autonomous taxi service. Source...
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Recently, an international team took the HULC moon camera out for a test drive in lunar-like conditions to improve the camera's design for Artemis moon missions. Source...
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