Harvard’s Chair of Astronomy is Leading a Team to Search For UFOs and Alien Tech—10 Reasons Why This is Huge Artist's impression of Oumuamua. Credit: ESO

Harvard’s Chair of Astronomy is Leading a Team to Search For UFOs and Alien Tech—10 Reasons Why This is Huge

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Avi Loeb is the most dedicated supporter of the theory that the interstellar object Oumuamua was alien technology. The professor is now launching a new initiative called the Galileo Project that will search for similar objects in space.

Melting Tibetan Glaciers Unleash 15,000-Year Old Viruses–10 Reasons Why This Matters Scientists have discovered dozens of unknown ancient viruses from melting glaciers. Credit: Pixabay

Melting Tibetan Glaciers Unleash 15,000-Year Old Viruses–10 Reasons Why This Matters

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Scientists analyzed old ice samples from the Tibetan plateau and found in them the genomic sequences of more than 30 ancient viruses, most of which were not previously known to science. The viruses from the Guliya ice cap have been given an approximate point of origin – around 15,000 years ago.

Amateur Astronomer Finds New Moon Orbiting Jupiter—10 Things You Need To Know Jupiter and the Jovian System. An Amateur astronomer has discovered a new moon of Jupiter. Credit: NASA

Amateur Astronomer Finds New Moon Orbiting Jupiter—10 Things You Need To Know

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In addition to the four large Galilean moons, Jupiter has many smaller moons, up to a kilometer in size. Today, 79 of them are known, but there is no doubt that the giant planet has other small satellites that we have not yet noticed. One such was recently discovered by amateur astronomer Kai Ly, bringing the total to exactly eighty.

Researchers Find “Borg DNA” Capable of Assimilating Genes–10 Things You Need to Know Scientists discovered a new gene type and called it the Borg DNA. Credit: Pixabay

Researchers Find “Borg DNA” Capable of Assimilating Genes–10 Things You Need to Know

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In the process of genetic analysis of the microbial community of the swamp, American scientists discovered a new type of huge genetic element, probably capable of assimilating the genes of archaea. For this reason, they were named after the Borg civilization from the science fiction series Star Trek – Borg DNA.

Astronomers Snap Image of Cosmic Jet Escaping Black Hole–10 Things You Should Know The Event Horizon Telescope captured images of the black hole jets at the center of the Centaurus A galaxy. Credit: X-RAY: CXC/NASA AND SAO; OPTICAL: ROLF OLSEN; INFRARED: JPL-CALTECH/NASA

Astronomers Snap Image of Cosmic Jet Escaping Black Hole–10 Things You Should Know

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The Event Horizon Telescope has obtained the most detailed image of relativistic jets erupting from the core of the Centaurus A radio galaxy. It turned out that the structure of the jets closely resembles the jet in the active galaxy M87 on a scale of up to five hundred gravitational radii of a black hole.