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Archive for January, 2023

I drove 10 hours to watch a 9-minute Rocket Lab launch from Virginia and it was glorious

January 29th, 2023 by

It’s not every day you watch a rocket streak into space over Virginia’s Eastern Shore, acing its first-ever liftoff from American soil.

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What are gluons?

January 29th, 2023 by

Discover how gluons bind quarks together to form protons and neutrons and explore the form weird form of matter in which they existed just after the Big Bang.

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Watch SpaceX launch 49 Starlink internet satellites to orbit Sunday

January 29th, 2023 by

SpaceX plans to launch another set of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit on Sunday (Jan. 29), and you can watch the action live.

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UAE lunar rover will test 1st artificial intelligence on the moon with Canada

January 28th, 2023 by

Canadian company Mission Control Space Services has an interplanetary test forthcoming: Proving its artificial intelligence on a moon rover mission.

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Watch the 1st half-lit first quarter moon of 2023 rise tonight

January 28th, 2023 by

On Saturday, Jan. 28, skywatchers will be able to see the year’s 1st first quarter moon, when the moon appears to be half-lit from the perspective of Earth.

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NASA astronaut Sally Ride statue to be unveiled in Los Angeles on July 4

January 28th, 2023 by

The first U.S. woman in space will be honored with a monument outside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum. The same team made another Ride statue in 2022.

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Return to the Rocinante with a new 12-issue comic series, ‘The Expanse: Dragon Tooth’

January 28th, 2023 by

Boom! Studios is set to release “The Expanse: Dragon Tooth” comic series in April.

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Watch the moon eclipse Uranus tonight

January 28th, 2023 by

On Saturday (Jan. 28), the moon will cover Uranus in the night sky during a lunar occultation for some regions of Earth. In other places, the two bodies will share a close approach to one another.

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