The Space Thread

Ah, that makes a lot more sense.

My understanding was that it was measured as older, but within the margin of error, so they erred slightly over.

Recent volcanic eruptions on the moon

Earth's magnetic field could flip within a human lifetime

NASA mission provides its first look at Martian upper atmosphere

Rediscovering Venus to find faraway Earths: Measuring gravitational pull of a planet should speed search

Construction secrets of a galactic metropolis: APEX reveals hidden star formation in protocluster

Getting to know super-Earths: Using Hubble to study mysterious exoplanet

Potential Kuiper belt targets for new horizons Pluto mission

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Inexplicable signal from unseen universe provides tantalizing clue about one of astronomy's greatest secrets - dark matter

Cosmic jets of young stars formed by magnetic fields

Hubble finds extremely distant galaxy through cosmic magnifying glass

First evidence of a hydrogen-deficient supernova progenitor

Once in million years: Comet buzzing Mars on Sun

NASA spacecraft provides new information about sun's atmosphere

Wobbling of a Saturn moon hints at what lies beneath

Tiny 'nanoflares' might heat the Sun's corona

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A newborn supernova every night

Uranus-Like Planet Discovered 25,000 Light-Years Away

Top-secret space plane lands on California coast

Hot explosions on the cool sun

Big black holes can block new stars

Cosmic rays threaten future deep-space astronaut missions

NASA Webb's heart survives deep freeze test

NASA snaps first-ever pic of a long-period comet's core

Fermi satellite finds hints of starquakes in magnetar 'storm'

Two families of comets found around nearby star Beta Pictoris

Titan glowing at dusk and dawn

Oculus Rift users to see Moon live through robot

3-D map of the adolescent universe

OSIRIS images of Rosetta's comet show spectacular streams of dust emitted into space

China launches first mission to moon and back

Supermassive black hole takes Jupiter-sized bite from nearby star

NASA identifies ice cloud above cruising altitude on Titan

Hinode satellite captures X-ray footage of solar eclipse

SpaceX ship leaves ISS for Earth loaded with lab results

South Texas parks looking to seek improvements to help profit off of rocket lauches from SpaceX's spaceport.

This does get me wondering on a tangent, I live on the West side of Galveston Bay, would I be able to see some parts of the launch?

Astronomers image the exploding fireball stage of a nova

How Building a Black Hole for Interstellar Led to an Amazing Scientific Discovery

tl;dr: The movie's black hole is the most scientifically accurate one yet.

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