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A billion galaxies lurk in a 10 trillion pixel map of the sky

A billion galaxies lurk in a 10 trillion pixel map of the sky

Syfy Insider ExclusiveCreate a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, sweepstakes, and more!Sign Up For Free to ViewThe sky is big. If you want to map it in detail, you have to think big, too.Astronomers are good at that. A massive international team has just released a sky survey so huge that I'm having a hard time grasping it.The map is the culmination of six years with 1405 nights of observations, three telescopes (and one space telescope), and one supercomputer cranking away at the data… because the survey has a total of 10 trillion pixels, and makes up a petabyte of...

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Was early Mars wet and warm, or dry and cold? Yes.

Was early Mars wet and warm, or dry and cold? Yes.

Syfy Insider ExclusiveCreate a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, sweepstakes, and more!Sign Up For Free to ViewWe know there's water on Mars. And lots of it.Thing is, it's frozen. With the polar caps, and under the surface even down to mid-latitudes, when you talk Martian water you're talking ice.While , if you want copious liquid water on the surface then you need to time travel, back to, oh, say, 3 billion years ago (better or ). Back then there was quite a bit of surface water, the evidence of which is still around today. , , even hints of ocean shorelines… all...

April 30, 2015
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