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Strange, unexpected things are happening on Neptune

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It's very unexpected," Glenn Orton, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an author of the new Neptune research, told Mashable. "There are lots of very strange things happening on Neptune that we don't understand.". There are lots of very strange things happening on Neptune that we don't understand."

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Hubble pics reveal the mega comet is wider than Rhode Island

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This bright ball of ice, dust, and rock stretches some 85 miles across — more than double the width of Rhode Island — and weighs 500 trillion tons. That means Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein may be just "the tip of the iceberg," David Jewitt, a UCLA astronomer and co-author on the new research, said in a statement. (We

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Extremely wild planet hosts metal clouds and raining gems

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Using unique observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers measured the temperature of the nightside atmosphere and showed that it was cool enough for various metals to condense, Thomas Mikal-Evans, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and a lead author of the research, told Mashable. An investigation.

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The mega-comet hurtling through our solar system is 85, yes 85, miles wide

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In the new study , to be published in the science journal Astronomy & Astrophysics , scientists estimate it's some 85 miles wide. Just looking at its brightness (meaning how much sunlight is reflecting off) won't cut it, explained Emmanuel Lellouch, an astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris and one of the study's authors.

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AT&T Acquires Time Warner Inc.

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Naturally, such rosy words are needed in order to try to get approval by the relevant authorities. For Time Warner, the deal represents a victory for Mr. Bewkes, 64, who took some heat from investors for rebuffing a takeover bid two years ago from 21st Century Fox at $85 a share.

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A brief history of VR and AR

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I was transported to the driver’s seat of a motorcycle in Brooklyn in the 1950s,” the author writes. “I Sutherland, who is still around today at 85, contributed important technological innovations for decades. I heard the engine start.

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The hype, haplessness and hope of haptics in the COVID-19 era

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Devon Powers is an associate professor of advertising at Temple University and the author of "On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future.". David Parisi is an associate professor at the College of Charleston and author of "Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing.". Contributor. David Parisi.

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