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Astronomers Detect Highly Energetic Radiation from Microquasar
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Astronomers have detected gamma rays coming from the outermost regions of an unusual star system within our Milky Way Galaxy. The source is a microquasar — a black hole that gobbles up stuff from a nearby companion star and blasts out two powerful jets of material. The observations suggest that electron acceleration and collisions at [...]
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Archaeologists Find Traces of 3,500-Year-Old Nutmeg-Spiced Food
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Residue on ceramic potsherds found at an archaeological site on the island of Pulau Ay (Ai), Indonesia, shows the nutmeg (Myristica fragrans) was used as a food ingredient 2,000 years earlier than thought. The Pulau Ay site was occupied from 2,300 to 3,500 years ago, with animal bones, earthenware pottery, stone tools, and post molds [...]
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Astronomers Find New Extreme Dwarf Planet: 2015 TG387
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Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet in the Oort Cloud, a spherical ‘cloud’ of frozen objects surrounding the Solar System and extending halfway to the nearest stars. Named 2015 TG387, the new object has an orbit that supports the presence of an unknown massive distant planet, called Planet Nine. Nicknamed ‘the Goblin,’ 2015 TG387 [...]
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