Seeing Red?
Listen 00:03:54Mars is at its closest approach to Earth for this year. Surprisingly there are no rumors this time around about Mars appearing as large as the full moon in the night sky .
A black hole studied at the center of the Galaxy NGC 1332 has a mass equivalent to 660 million suns. Observation made using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array radio telescope in Chile. ALMA is a radio array of 66 dishes that can be moved apart to provide very high resolutions unattainable by optical telescopes trying to peer deep into cloudy regions of nebulae and galaxies.
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