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Space & Cosmos
New technology announced for discovering Dyson rings
Credit: Vedexent at en.wikipedia, converted to png by Falcorian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Dyson spheres and rings have always had a special fascination for me. The concept is simple. Build large structures as spheres or rings to harness energy from stars. Dyson rings are much simpler and possible to construct, and in a recent paper a team of…
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Space & Cosmos
Earth may have had rings 466 million years ago
Regions of equatorial continental crust during the Ordovician Period. Regions older than Ordovician are shown in salmon, Ordovician rocks in dark blue, and newer regions in grey. Light blue indicates lakes in Europe and Russia. Labeled pink dots are recognized as Ordovician impact craters. Credit: Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118991 In a discovery that calls into question…
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