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Archive for January 2nd, 2023

Watch NASA’s SWOT satellite unfold in space to map Earth’s water in stunning video

January 2nd, 2023 by

NASA’s new water surveying SWOT spacecraft can be seen unfurling its main antenna in a stunning new video shot in space.

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Possible naked-eye comet will visit Earth for 1st time since Neanderthals in 2023

January 2nd, 2023 by

A comet that hasn’t visited Earth since the Neanderthals existed during the last ice age is set to blast past Earth in early 2023. The comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) could be so bright it is visible to the naked eye.

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Quadrantid meteor shower, one of the best of the year, peaking now at the wrong time

January 2nd, 2023 by

The bright moon will interfere with the 2023 Quadrantid meteor shower this year, limiting the shooting star display.

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How gravitational waves can ‘see inside’ black holes

January 2nd, 2023 by

What lurks at the center of a black hole? Studying the space-time ripples from black hole collisions could reveal an answer.

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Watch SpaceX launch 1st rocket of 2023 with EOS Sat-1 and 113 other satellites on Tuesday

January 2nd, 2023 by

SpaceX will ring in the New Year a little late with its first launch on Jan. 2 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, bringing to space several small satellites on the Transporter-6 mission.

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Hubble telescope spies a swarm of stars in a cosmic beehive

January 2nd, 2023 by

The Hubble Space Telescope has collected a stunning image of the globular cluster NGC 6440 appearing almost like a cosmic bee hive surrounded by a swarm of stellar bees.

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Why time-traveling tachyons probably don’t exist

January 2nd, 2023 by

Einstein toyed with the idea of faster-than-light-particles but found that such particles violated a central rule of the universe: causality.

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