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The current movie hit Avatar shows humans visiting ‘the habitable – and inhabited – alien moon called Pandora.’ Such ‘life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction.’ Soon, what science fiction used to offer in the realm of habitable moons may just become a reality with the [...]

According to a new research study, ‘the Egyptians started building the Great Pyramid of Giza on August 23, 2470 B.C.’ The Egyptian researchers that came up with the exact date of the construction of the pyramid ‘arrived at the date based on calculations of historical appearances of the star Sothis—today called Sirius.’ The Sothis star rises [...]

From the Hubble telescope’s images of planetary nebulae comes the idea of how the sun will eventually look when it expires five billion years hence. Once it has exhausted its reserves of hydrogen that feeds a continuous process of nuclear fusion, the sun will become just like any of the nebulae the most beautiful of which is known as the ‘Cat’s [...]