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...wouldn't know it, but billions of comets are lurking right now at the outer edges of the Solar System waiting for their big moment onstage. Most will never get the chance: They're destined to orbit endlessly in the deep freeze of outer space - lonely chunks of dirty ice that will always be far too small to be seen, even with a powerful telescope...
...objects that form when massive stars collapse at the end of their lives. They are so dense that nothing, not even light, can escape from them. “It’s really hard for a single star to make a black hole of more than 20 solar masses,” Prestwich said. “My best guess is that this guy really is more massive than 20 solar masses. And that’s why he’s interesting,” she added. Conventional theory says that black holes formed by collapsing stars cannot...
...SPACE Solar panel on space station rips as it is unfurled...
...energy and space, the company will stock only concentrated detergents. In a high-efficiency prototype near Kansas City, Mo., the company is testing LED-illuminated refrigerator cases that don't light up until you approach them, so the lights stay off 40% of the time. Elsewhere it is testing solar panels and windmills...
...Orleans Times-Picayune asked people to write in their advice for future evacuations. Their responses read like poetry, and you won't find most of them on any Red Cross checklist: my own pillow, Sudoku, shoes other than flip-flops, solar-powered garden lights, cat litter (for the humans), the kids' immunization records, the good bottles of wine we were saving for special occasions, and Xanax...