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Dec 8, 2018
SciTechDaily - Astronomers have detected a bright X-ray outburst from a star in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy almost 200,000 light years from Earth. A combination of X-ray and optical data indicate that the source of this radiation is a white dwarf star that may be the fastest-growing white dwarf ever observed.
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Dec 7, 2018
Politics USA - Trump’s favourite slander in opposition to Robert Mueller’s investigation has a really lengthy historical past.
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Dec 5, 2018
Inside Higher Ed - The Institution: Texas Tech University, in Lubbock, Tex. A Growing Need: Students in the institution’s university studies program have their pick of three distinct areas of study from the institution’s academic colleges. Those three concentrations make up 54 of the required 120 credit hours to earn the degree.
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Dec 5, 2018
Using data provided by NASA's Chandra spacecraft, astronomers have identified a new unusual ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) in the elliptical galaxy Messier 86. The newly found ULX, designated M86 tULX-1, resides some 62,000 light years away from the galaxy's center. The finding is reported in a paper published November 26 on arXiv.org.
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