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Archive for January, 2021

You can see Uranus, Mars and the moon get close in a rare night sky sight tonight

January 21st, 2021 by

Look up tonight (Jan. 21) to see Uranus and Mars nestled together in the night sky.

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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft software passes qualification review for next NASA test flight

January 21st, 2021 by

Boeing passed a big spacecraft software test for its commercial crew spacecraft as it continues the long road to fixing the problems that bugged out a 2019 test flight to the International Space Station.

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Did water once flow through meteorites?

January 21st, 2021 by

Water may have recently flowed within meteorites, suggesting the asteroids they broke off from may bear ice, a new study finds.

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Powerful cosmic eruptions traced to brilliant ‘magnetar’ in nearby galaxy

January 21st, 2021 by

Astronomers may have captured the first good look at giant flares from the strongest magnets in the universe.

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Biden administration appoints Steve Jurczyk acting NASA chief

January 21st, 2021 by

After NASA’s chief Jim Bridenstine’s resigned yesterday (Jan. 20), President Joe Biden’s administration has appointed Steve Jurczyk to serve as acting administrator.

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NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance lands on the Red Planet in less than a month!

January 21st, 2021 by

The car-size Perseverance rover, the core of NASA’s $2.7 billion Mars 2020 mission, will land Feb. 18, kicking off a new era of Red Planet exploration.

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A galactic sideswipe 3 billion years ago warped our Milky Way galaxy

January 21st, 2021 by

New data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Europe’s Gaia spacecraft suggest that a brush with another galaxy caused the strange, potato chip-like “warp” in our Milky Way galaxy.

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This tiny comet photobombed the total solar eclipse of 2020

January 21st, 2021 by

Looking closely at eclipse images, stargazers can spot a newfound Kreutz sungrazer comet that zoomed by the Sun during Chile and Argentina’s solar eclipse.

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