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Archive for September, 2022

Watch VP Harris chair National Space Council meeting Friday

September 9th, 2022 by

Vice President Kamala Harris will preside over her second National Space Council meeting Friday (Sept. 9) at 2:20 p.m. EDT (1840 GMT). Watch it live here.

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What is nuclear fusion?

September 9th, 2022 by

Nuclear fusion is the process of forcing together two light atomic nuclei and creating a heavier one, in the process taking a tiny amount of matter and turning it into massive amounts of energy.

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An early harvest full moon rises Saturday (Sept. 10)

September 9th, 2022 by

The full moon of Saturday (Sept. 10) also carries the title of the Harvest Moon for those living in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Hubble Space Telescope sees spiral of star formation in neighboring galaxy

September 9th, 2022 by

The early universe experienced a rapid “baby boom” of star formation. Now clues collected from a stellar nursery in the Small Magellanic Cloud could hint at the conditions that caused it.

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Interstellar objects might have crashed on to the moon

September 9th, 2022 by

Hunting for interstellar objects in our solar system may have a new venue: the moon. Finding out if they crashed there likely will require astronauts to go hunting.

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SpaceX fires up all 6 engines of Starship prototype ahead of orbital test flight (video)

September 9th, 2022 by

SpaceX fired up the engines of its space-bound Starship prototype Thursday afternoon (Sept. 8) in a dramatic test that also set some of the surrounding landscape ablaze.

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NASA, other space agencies mourn passing of Queen Elizabeth II

September 9th, 2022 by

NASA and others in the space community are adding their voices to the chorus mourning the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

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A new way to teach science (op-ed)

September 9th, 2022 by

A new way of teaching science can give students a chance to learn how science really makes its way forward and offer them a chance to mix it up themselves.

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