Summer nights planetary parade in July and other top stories.

• Summer nights planetary parade in July

  

  Two views of the red planet Mars as shot last month by the author through a telescope. The dark markings are surface features on the planet Mars while the plain areas are vast deserts. The images were shot half an hour apart and in fact one can notice a slight difference due to the rotation of the planet itself. Mars rotates once every day on its axis, just like the Earth. Any casual look at the evening night sky around this time will show a very bright orange ‘star’ to the south. That is th..

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• Brexit And Climate Change: Global Warming, The Refugee Crisis, And An Uncertain Future

  

  Was Brexit — or the recent British vote to leave the European Union — caused by climate change? Global warming, the refugee crisis, and Brexit are linked in several ways and uncertainty continues to mount in the aftermath of the U.K.’s historic decision. As pointed out in a story in the Christian Science Monitor, Europe’s policies on climate are thrown into doubt by the Brexit vote. Just six months ago, the E.U. agreed on carbon-reduction goals as a block in the historic Paris climate treaty. W..

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• Did Prehistoric People Watch The Stars Through This 6000-Year-Old 'Telescope'?

  

  Prehistoric humans may have observed the sky via primitive lens-less “telescopes”, according to a team of British astronomers who have studied the long passageways of ancient megalithic tombs. The details were presented this week by Kieran Simcox, a student at Nottingham Trent University, at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society. Dolmen da Orca, a typical structure in Western Iberia, part of the megalithic cluster of Carregal do Sal. Technically it’s not a telescope (with or without a le..

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• Woman charged for Stephen Hawking death threats

  

  Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner host press conference to announce Breakthrough Starshot, a new space exploration initiativeAN AMERICAN woman was handed a suspended four-month jail sentence in Spain Friday for threatening to kill cosmologist Stephen Hawking.The woman, identified by Spanish media reports as Jenny Theresa C., was arrested at a hotel on Spain’s Canary Island of Tenerife Wednesday.According to BBC, the woman had a map showing Hawking’s itinerary while on the island.She told police af..

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• Dealing with a childhood trauma now

  

  Richard was always afraid of heights. His legs would shake uncontrollably at the sight of a ladder and he didn’t know why. It wasn’t until Richard was in his 60s that he decided to do something about it. It was starting to interfere with some of the trips he and his wife had planned in their retirement. Due to his crippling fear her couldn’t go up the Eiffel Tower or the Leaning Tower of Pisa. These were things that he always wanted to do and he was going to get to the bottom of his fear and fi..

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• Hawaiian telescope presents rare infrared view of the deep Universe

  

  Space Hawaiian telescope presents rare infrared view of the deep Universe Anthony Wood July 2, 2016 Astronomers have released a stunning infrared view of the deep Universe containing a number of galaxies created in the first billion years following the birth of the cosmos. The image is the result of over 1,000 hours of exposure time from the 3.8-m (12.4-ft) United Kingdom Infrared Telesc..

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• Climate Change Will Damage Penguin Populations By 60% This Century

  

  Climate Change Will Damage Penguin Populations By 60% This Century Penguin populations are declining rapidly in areas where climate change has had the maximum influence. By Staff Writer | Jul 03, 2016 06:34 AM EDT Rising sea surface temperatures are leading to declining populations of Adélie penguins (Photo : University of Delaware/ Megan Cimino) Climate change is affecting Antarctica's penguin population, which is reducing rapidly, especially in regions where the impact of global warmin..

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• Alien home doorway discovered on Mars say excited extraterrestrial hunters

  

  A six-inch alien home doorway has been discovered on the surface of Mars, say excited extraterrestrial hunters, who insist that their find is finally the compelling evidence we have all been seeking of intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe. They believe the aliens who live in the structure on Mars are the same extraterrestrials as the one discovered in the Atacama desert in Chile in 2003. The alleged Mars find was made after studying a picture taken by NASA’s Spirit rover, a robotic vehicl..

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• Ozone Hole Heals, Gives Hope That Humans Will Fix Climate

  

  Scientists are celebrating proof today that environmental policies do work, and if given a chance to exercise their political will, humans can fix environmental problems easily. In a rapid turn of events back in the 1980s, scientists found enough proof that ozone-depleting chloroflurocarbons (CFCs) were turning into chlorine clouds and attacking the ozone layer to call for a planet-saving protocol in 1987, which was enacted just two years later in Montreal in 1989. Scientists find evidence that..

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