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Deep Space Mystery Solved Using ’70s Computer Graphics Technique
Extra-solar probes Pioneer 10 and 11 have been confusing astrophysicists for the last decade: they’re slowing down a lot more than we’d expected as they’re leaving the solar system. The slowing has become know as the “Pioneer Anomaly.” (But you probably know it by the popular formula, “Ol’ (8.74±1.33)×10^−10 ms^−2”.)
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Witness The Awesome Power Of A Runaway Star
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer captured this amazing image of the star Zeta Ophiuchi plowing through a radiant dust cloud at 54,000 miles per hour. Why is Zeta Ophiuchi on the run?