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Archive for March 12th, 2021

Hubble Space Telescope is back online after software glitch

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The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is recovering from a glitch that halted its science operations over the weekend, according to NASA.

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ has started principal photography

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Principal photography has begun on the much-anticipated premiere season of “Strange New Worlds,” according to Variety.

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NASA targets March 18 for a critical engine test of its Space Launch System moon rocket

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NASA’s first Space Launch System megarocket will fire up its main engines in a critical test next week on March 18.

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How scientists found rare fireball meteorite pieces on a driveway — and what they could teach us

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As people in the UK were settling down to watch the late evening news on February 28, a fresh news story, quite literally, appeared in the night sky.

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March new moon 2021: Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn align in the moonless morning sky

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The moon will arrive at new phase again this Saturday (March 13) at 5:21 a.m. EST (1021 GMT), after a week of passing by several planets in the early morning sky.

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A new approach to directly testing quantum gravity

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A team of physicists has proposed a clever plan to concoct a quantum theory of gravity: refine an age-old technique, and use it to probe the tiniest scales in the universe.

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The moon has a tail, and Earth wears it like a scarf once a month

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The tail is invisible to the naked eye but appears on all-sky cameras during every new moon.

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On This Day in Space! March 12, 2015: NASA launches Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

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On March 12, 2015, NASA launched four satellites on a mission to study a weird phenomenon in Earth’s magnetic field . See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

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