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Archive for February, 2023

US shoots down ‘UFO’ over Canada

February 13th, 2023 by

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the U.S. shot down an unidentified flying object over the Yukon, Canada at his request.

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The sun just erupted with a major X-class solar flare. Here’s what it looked like on video.

February 12th, 2023 by

A major solar flare erupted from the erupted from the sun on Saturday (Feb. 11) and a NASA spacecraft caught it on video.

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Cracks on Pluto’s moon Charon may be evidence of a frozen subsurface ocean

February 12th, 2023 by

The icy volcanism of Pluto’s moon Charon may be driven by an internal frozen ocean erupted through a thin shell.

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‘Black history is American history’: NASA celebrates African Americans and space achievements at Smithsonian event

February 12th, 2023 by

The Black History Month event Friday (Feb. 10) included astronauts, NASA directors and a discussion of why diversity matters, with high schoolers making up much of the audience.

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The James Webb Space Telescope catches distant young galaxy devouring its neighbors

February 12th, 2023 by

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a young, distant galaxy feasting on its neighbors just like the early Milky Way once did.

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Be hypnotized by this mesmerizing blue and gold spiral galaxy (photo)

February 12th, 2023 by

A new image taken with two cutting-edge telescopes shows a spiral galaxy as a swirling formation of bright blue and shining gold, with the golden regions representing the building blocks of new stars.

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Russian Progress cargo craft at space station springs a leak

February 12th, 2023 by

A robotic Progress freighter docked to the space station just sprung a leak, two months after a similar issue arose on a Russian Soyuz crew spacecraft.

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Hubble captures dazzling star cluster that may soon disperse

February 11th, 2023 by

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an open star cluster known as NGC 2660, which contains hundreds of loosely bound stars in the constellation of Vela.

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