astrophysics
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The US Will Fund Another Super-Sensitive And Expensive Dark Matter Experiment
The US Department of Energy will fund the most sensitive search yet for theorised dark matter particles. It will sit over 1.6km underground, in a nickel mine near the Canadian city of Sudbury, according to a release.
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ESA’s Star Map Release Could Revolutionise Our Understanding Of Astronomy
Astronomers from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission will release the biggest map of our galaxy ever tomorrow, using data collected by the Gaia space telescope. That includes 1.7 billion stars, as well as new information that could potentially solve some cosmic mysteries.
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NASA’s New Planet-Hunting Satellite Is Ready To Launch On Tuesday
NASA’s TESS, or the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, will launch on Tuesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, if everything goes to plan. People are excited.
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NASA’s Newest Planet Hunter Will Do What Kepler Couldn’t
On April 16, NASA is planning to launch its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. TESS is an Earth-orbiting instrument meant to spot faraway planets circling some 200,000 stars within 300 light-years of Earth. Astronomers hopes that TESS will help them learn whether or not there are other habitable…