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Apr 22, 2019

You Can Now Shop With Bitcoin on Amazon Using Lightning

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Bitcoin spenders can now use the lightning network to shop at e-commerce sites like Amazon.

Crypto payment processing startup Moon announced today that any lightning-enabled wallet can now also be used through Moon’s browser extension. Before this lightning feature, roughly 250 beta users already used Moon to spend crypto on e-commerce sites by connecting the browser extension to exchange accounts like Coinbase.

Moon CEO Ken Kruger told CoinDesk:

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Apr 21, 2019

The outlet glacier of Vavilov Ice Cap has gone from sliding 20 meters per year to 20 meters per day

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What triggered this dramatic surge is still unknown, but with our NASA Earth satellites data we now have a time-lapse of the damage. Dive into the situation: https://go.nasa.gov/2GqgJaV

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Apr 21, 2019

What If We Built A Ring World In Space?

Posted by in categories: habitats, space

Someday, when humankind outgrows planet Earth, we might aim to build a habitat so vast we could never overpopulate it.

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Apr 21, 2019

Gravitational Forces at Heart of Milky Way Shaped Star Cluster Like Comet

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This week’s Hubble Picture of the Week is a view of the stunning and unusual Messier 62 cluster in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

A globular cluster is a group of thousands of stars which are bound together by gravity, and which move across the sky as one group. The strong gravity means that most such clusters are perfectly spherical, like the neat and orderly Messier 3 or Messier 28 clusters.

But in the case of Messier 62, we see something different. The cluster is warped, with a long tail of stars which stretch out to one side to form a shape like a comet and its tail. It is thought that this distortion is due to Messier 62’s close proximity to the center of the galaxy, where strong gravitational forces from outside the cluster create tidal forces which pull some of the cluster toward the center.

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Apr 21, 2019

Jupiter-size star generates titanic white-light ‘superflare’

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A small, borderline star about the size of Jupiter some 250 light years from Earth has been caught in the act of emitting an enormous superflare, releasing the equivalent of 80 billion tons of TNT while triggering a 10,000-fold increase in brightness.

The flare was 10 times more powerful than any known outburst from the Sun, including the Carrington event in 1859 that disrupted telegraph services around the world and caused strong, widespread auroral displays.

“The activity of low mass stars decreases as you go to lower and lower masses, and we expect the chromosphere (where flares originate) to get cooler or weaker,” said James Jackman, a doctoral student at the University of Warwick and lead author of a paper about the eruption.

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Apr 21, 2019

The board games turning science into playtime

Posted by in categories: entertainment, particle physics, science, space

Science-themed board games are an increasingly popular way to learn about everything from atom building to colonising space.


Apr 20, 2019

A Heavy-Metal Planet Orbiting a Dead Star May Foretell Our World’s End

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The iron core of what was once a world has been found around a white dwarf star, shedding light on the final days of planetary systems—including our own.

  • By Jonathan O’Callaghan on April 4, 2019

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Apr 20, 2019

A Mars Colony Could Be Humanity’s First Shot at a Ground-Up, Pure Economy

Posted by in categories: economics, space

Matt Weinzierl is excited about the prospects.

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Apr 20, 2019

Light sails and stingray airships to explore space

Posted by in categories: innovation, space

NASA has announced the 18 projects awarded funding in its NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) programme.

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Apr 18, 2019

NASA designed a drone that could fly around Mars

Posted by in categories: drones, space