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Science news of the week: Fast Radio Burst, space solar plant and black holes

Science news of the week: Fast Radio Burst, space solar plant and black holes

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Mysterious Fast Radio Burst detected for the second time ever. Astronomers detected a signal from a galaxy believed to be nearly 3 billion light-years away called Fast Radio Burst (FRB). This Fast Radio Burst (FRB 20190520B) is said to be “co-located with a compact, persistent radio source and associated with a dwarf host galaxy of high […]

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Notorious asteroid ‘Apophis’ used to test planetary defence system

Notorious asteroid ‘Apophis’ used to test planetary defence system

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To test the operational readiness of planetary defence systems, researchers sometimes use a real asteroid’s close approach as a mock encounter with a new potentially hazardous asteroid. The lessons learnt from these mock exercises could help limit or even prevent global devastation if such a situation actually arises in the future. Scientists used the infamous […]

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