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SpaceX Dragon Launches Dragon to Space Station [VIDEO]

May 22nd 2012 / The Universe

SpaceX, a private space transportation company based in Hawthorne, California, has just become the first commercial company in history to successfully launch a spacecraft towards the International Space Station. SpaceX has successfully launched its spacecraft Dragon from Cape Canaveral, FL. at 3:44 AM ET. The spacecraft was launched atop the Falcon 9 rocket. If everything […]

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Is The Universe Infinite?

March 15th 2011 / The Universe, Videos

In modern times, giant telescopes allowed astronomers to gaze deep into the universe and look back to near the time of its birth. But their gaze is limited to the visible universe only. Is there a way to tell whether the size of the universe is finite or infinite even if we can only view

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The Origin of the Universe

November 1st 2010 / The Universe, Videos

The Big Bang describes the origin of the entire Universe. But it is often misunderstood as an explosion in space, as though space existed, as though time existed, and had simply been an explosion of matter and energy into space. But something deeper that is going on and that is space itself is created in

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Video: How Big is the Universe?

August 1st 2010 / Videos

The mind-blowing answer comes from a theory describing the birth of the universe in the first instant of time. The universe has long captivated us with its immense scales of distance and time. How far does it stretch? Where does it end… and what lies beyond its star fields… and streams of galaxies extending as

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Video: The Largest Black Holes in the Universe

July 13th 2010 / Videos

How big can they get? What’s the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide? We’ve never seen them directly. Yet we know they are there, lurking within dense star clusters… or wandering the dust lanes of the galaxy where they prey on stars… Or swallow planets whole. (source:

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