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, it will add to a collection of spacecraft that previously crashed there — as this graphic shows. The first was the Soviet Union’s Luna 2 in 1959, which became the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body when it crashed a little north of the lunar equator. The most recent was China’s Chang’e 5 lander, which dropped an ascent vehicle onto the Moon in 2020 as it flew lunar samples back to Earth.
argues that the preoccupation with vaccine hesitancy centres too much of the responsibility for the outcome of a vaccination programme on individuals, and that it is mainly governments that have the power to make vaccines both accessible and acceptable.If you were to look up at the sky with radio goggles, you would notice bright flashes at random locations roughly once every minute.
Fast radio bursts are luminous radio emissions typically emanating from distant galaxies, and can be emitted by highly magnetized neutron stars called magnetars. The bursts are also commonly observed from less-magnetized neutron stars, known as pulsars, in and around the Milky Way. The shaded region defines the range of luminosities and durations of radio bursts from these pulsars.
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