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Archive for December, 2022

Russia’s ‘final decision’ on leaky Soyuz spacecraft at space station to come in January: reports

December 29th, 2022 by

The Soyuz is docked to the International Space Station and it’s unclear if it can bear its crew back home, following a severe coolant leak earlier in December.

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Mars dust won’t bury Perseverance rover’s rock sample tubes on Martian surface

December 29th, 2022 by

‘My team’s not worried’ about dust or wind disturbing the lightsaber-shaped cache tubes, NASA’s Perseverance mission wrote on Twitter.

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Gamma rays: Everything you need to know about these powerful packets of energy

December 29th, 2022 by

Gamma rays are high-energy photons produced by some of the most violent events in the universe. We explore this powerful radiation in more detail here.

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Nobody took John F. Clauser’s quantum experiments seriously. 50 years later, he’s collecting a Nobel Prize.

December 29th, 2022 by

John F. Clauser reflects on receiving the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics for the groundbreaking work he did 50 years ago.

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The James Webb Space Telescope can use its full name in British journal again after controversy

December 29th, 2022 by

The Royal Astronomical Society briefly mandated that all journal articles refer to the observatory as ‘JWST’, before NASA cleared former chief James Webb of persecuting queer staffers.

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Satellite sees deadly blizzard and ‘bomb cyclone’ blanket the US northeastern in snow (photos)

December 29th, 2022 by

Satellite imagery from NASA shows snow, ice and clouds blanketing the northeastern U.S. during the peak of the holiday travel season.

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NASA’s new X-59 supersonic plane gets powerful engine for quiet sonic booms

December 28th, 2022 by

NASA’s supersonic X-59 plane is now one step closer to its flight demonstration over U.S. communities now that it has its 13-foot engine for quiet sonic booms.

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Every planet in the solar system will be visible on Wednesday (Dec. 28). Here’s how to see them

December 28th, 2022 by

Take a grand tour of the solar system tonight (Dec. 28) as each of the planets in the solar system will be visible at the same time.

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