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First Look: Hellboy’s Mike Mignola blasts into outer space with new Dark Horse miniseries, ‘Radio Spaceman’

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Mike Mignola, the Eisner Award-winning illustrator/writer and creative mind behind “Hellboy” and its spinoff titles known as the Mignolaverse, has rarely ventured into outer space during his impressive 30-year career.  Exploring the darker dimensions of the supernatural horror genre and summoning an extraordinary menagerie of vampires, ghosts, demons and severely twisted souls is where he’s … Read more

Biggest comet from outer solar system ever seen is 137 kilometres wide

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Astronomers have calculated the size of a ‘mega comet’ originating in the Oort Cloud, a cluster of icy bodies that surrounds our solar system Space 4 February 2022 By Jonathan O’Callaghan Illustration of the comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein as it might look in the outer solar system NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva Astronomers have confirmed that a “mega comet” … Read more

Gas Giants: Facts About the Outer Planets

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A gas giant is a large planet composed mostly of gases, such as hydrogen and helium, with a relatively small rocky core. The gas giants of our solar system are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.  These four large planets reside in the outer part of the solar system past the orbits of Mars and the … Read more

Astronomers Have Identified a New Kind of Supernova We Never Knew Existed

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We often think of supernova explosions as inevitable for large stars. Big star runs out of fuel, gravity collapses its core, and BOOM! But astronomers have long thought at least one type of large star didn’t end with a supernova. Known as Wolf-Rayet stars, they were thought to end with a quiet collapse of their core … Read more

Colossal ‘Fossil’ Structures Have Been Detected Lurking on The Outskirts of Our Galaxy

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From Earth’s vantage point in one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms, the structure of our galaxy is pretty difficult to reconstruct. That’s because gauging the distance to something in space when you don’t know its intrinsic brightness is really, really hard. And there are a lot of objects in the Milky Way whose brightness … Read more

The Brain’s Secrets May Be Hidden in Its Folds And Wrinkles. How Are They Made?

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The human brain has been called the most complex object in the known universe. And with good reason: It has around 86 billion neurons and several hundred thousand miles of axon fibers connecting them.   Unsurprisingly, the process of brain folding that results in the brain’s characteristic bumps and grooves is also highly complex. Despite … Read more