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Red Spot

4 February 2017
Astronomy

At https://phys.org/print405251294.html … Japanese researchers have been looking at a red spot on Pluto. It may have developed, they suggest, after a collision. It is speculated that an object thumped Pluto and using computer simulation they suggest it may have created Charon (which is almost the size of Pluto).

At https://phys.org/print405259316.html … we are at the asteroid Ceres on this post – and the ice volcano. Lots more speculation.

At https://phys.org/print405253723.html … a stray black hole is hiding in the Milky Wat – or should that be lurking. We are told it is difficult to find black holes – because they are black. Chewing over that piece of wisdom we may note Japanese researchers from Keio University are involved – and simulation. While they were looking for the results of a supernova explosion out there in space they came across a small molecular cloud with an unexpected motion. It has been nicknamed the Bullet as it has a speed of 100km a second. In other words, it exceeds the speed of light. We are told it was impossible to generate such an energetic cloud under ordinary environments.

At https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-data-fuel-debate-universes-expan… … a new study on how fast the universe is expanding. Apparently, it is faster than thercosmic microwave background

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