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Miley Cyrus: I got chased by a UFO and saw an alien

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The 27-year-old singer, who admitted she had been using marijuana at the time, said she was convinced she was being followed by an alien spaceship, and that she even made eye-contact with the extra-terrestrial. Cyrus told Interview magazine: "I had an experience, actually. I was driving through San Bernardino with my friend, and I got chased down by some sort of UFO . "I'm pretty sure about what I saw, but I'd also bought weed wax from a guy in a van in front of a taco shop, so it could have been the weed wax. Date: A9862C0E6E1BE95BCE0BF3D0298FD58B Twitter: @YahooSports Reference: (Read more) Visit Source In case you are keeping track: Trump: will 'take a good, strong look' at whether UFOs exist - Insider "Well I'm gonna have to check on that," Trump replied. "I mean, I've heard that. I heard that two days ago, so I'll check on that. I'll take a good, strong look at that....

Here's why scientists think women are better suited to space travel

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Are women better astronauts than men? This question will become central to the selection of crews to the Moon, Mars, and beyond as we undertake the colonization of space. In the struggle for gender equality, women have already proven they are capable of doing anything — including conquering space, showing that not even the sky is the limit for their success. * * * "The first all-women spacewalk at the International Space Station was carried out in October of 2019 and many other milestones have already been accomplished by women astronauts. But there has yet to be a first woman on the moon (or on Mars)," Katharina Buchholz writes for Statista. Publisher: The Next Web Date: 2020-10-24T09:00:15 02:00 Author: The Cosmic Companion Twitter: @thenextweb Reference: (Read more) Visit Source And here's another article: How Did Space Travel Go Commercial? HBO Series Set to Explore the Real Story | Military.com Ever wond...

NASA's Perseverance Rover Is Midway to Mars – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program

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Sometimes half measures can be a good thing – especially on a journey this long. The agency's latest rover only has about 146 million miles left to reach its destination. NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission has logged a lot of flight miles since being lofted skyward on July 30 – 146.3 million miles (235.4 million kilometers) to be exact. Turns out that is exactly the same distance it has to go before the spacecraft hits the Red Planet's atmosphere like a 11,900 mph (19,000 kph) freight train on Feb. 18, 2021. Publisher: NASA's Mars Exploration Program Date: 2020-10-27 17:11:36 UTC Author: mars nasa gov Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Quite a lot has been going on: China chooses landing site for its Tianwen-1 Mars rover | Space China has apparently chosen a primary landing site for its Tianwen-1 Mars rover ahead of the spacecraft's arrival at the Red Planet in February 2021. Tianwen-1, c...

Quanta Magazine

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In a series of breakthrough papers, theoretical physicists have come tantalizingly close to resolving the black hole information paradox that has entranced and bedeviled them for nearly 50 years. Information, they now say with confidence, does escape a black hole. If you jump into one, you will not be gone for good. Particle by particle, the information needed to reconstitute your body will reemerge. This is a peculiar role reversal for gravity. According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, the gravity of a black hole is so intense that nothing can escape it. The more sophisticated understanding of black holes developed by Stephen Hawking and his colleagues in the 1970s did not question this principle. Publisher: Quanta Magazine Twitter: @QuantaMagazine Reference: (Read more) Visit Source

Rare Halloween 'Blue Moon' is a spooky treat for us all | Space

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Skywatchers, ghouls and (especially) werewolves take note: The moon will be full this Halloween night across the entire United States. This is a truly special confluence of spookiness; a Halloween full moon visible for all time zones on Earth hasn't happened since 1944, according to the Farmers' Almanac . It won't happen again until 2039. But wait, there's more: The Oct. 31 full moon also happens to be a " blue moon ," a designation for the second full moon to occur in a single calendar month. Blue moons are relatively rare as well, occurring on average just once every 2.5 years or so. We last saw one in March 2018. Publisher: Space.com Date: 2020-10-30T11:38:14 00:00 Author: https www facebook com spacecom Twitter: @SPACEdotcom Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Not to change the topic here: The Full Blue Moon on Halloween - The New York Times The moon remains, perpetually and since antiq...

There's an asteroid in space worth $10 quintillion - CNN Video

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Publisher: CNN Date: 2020-10-30T05:32:17Z Reference: (Read more) Visit Source While you're here, how about this: NASA expert identifies mystery object once thought an asteroid - CBS News The jig may be up for an "asteroid" that's expected to get nabbed by Earth's gravity and become a mini moon next month. Instead of a cosmic rock, the newly discovered object appears to be an old rocket from a failed moon-landing mission 54 years ago that's finally making its way back home, according to NASA's leading asteroid expert. Observations should help nail its identity. Chodas speculates that asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually the Centaur upper rocket stage that successfully propelled NASA's Surveyor 2 lander to the moon in 1966 before it was discarded. The lander ended up crashing into the moon after one of its thrusters failed to ignite on the way there. The rocket, meanwhile, ...

Europe will help build NASA's moon-orbiting Gateway space station | Space

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The European Space Agency (ESA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday (Oct. 27) formalizing its collaboration on Gateway, a planned outpost in lunar orbit that NASA sees as key to its Artemis program of crewed moon exploration. Under this new agreement, ESA will provide Gateway with a habitation module and a refueling module, both of which the European agency will operate once the hardware is up and running. ESA contributions will also include two additional service modules for NASA's Orion capsule, the spacecraft that will launch Artemis astronauts from Earth atop the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rockets. Publisher: Space.com Date: 2020-10-27T19:49:24 00:00 Author: https www facebook com spacecom Twitter: @SPACEdotcom Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Were you following this: Super-Earth and sub-Neptune found orbiting a red dwarf star | Space | EarthSky Astronomers using a telescope in Mexico hav...