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Archive for May 13th, 2023

Carl Sagan film ‘Voyagers’ casts Andrew Garfield of ‘Spider-Man’ fame to play beloved astronomer

May 13th, 2023 by

Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones are set to star as Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan in the upcoming film “Voyagers” about the legendary astronomer.

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James Webb Space Telescope catches ancient galaxy in the act of explosive star birth

May 13th, 2023 by

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed an early dusty galaxy over 12 billion light-years away during an explosive period of star formation.

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Watch SpaceX launch 56 Starlink satellites early Sunday

May 13th, 2023 by

SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit early Sunday morning (May 14), and you can watch the action live.

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See the moon snuggle up to Saturn in the sky today

May 13th, 2023 by

The conjunction and close approach of the moon and Saturn will be visible in the sky from the early morning until just after midday on Saturday, May 13.

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Rock that punched hole in New Jersey house confirmed to be 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite

May 13th, 2023 by

The rock that struck a residential home in New Jersey earlier this week is a rare 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite, scientists confirmed on Thursday (May 11).

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Russian cosmonauts move vital radiator for International Space Station in 5-hour spacewalk

May 13th, 2023 by

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin completed a spacewalk to activate a radiator that they earlier helped relocate outside of the International Space Station.

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‘Mars Horizon 2’ lets players search for Red Planet life with real science

May 13th, 2023 by

CalTech professor Konstantin Batygin, best known for his search for Planet 9, will pivot his expertise to Mars in support of a PC game coming in 2024.

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NASA gives up on tiny Lunar Flashlight probe’s troubled moon ice mission

May 13th, 2023 by

NASA has given up on the planned moon mission of its tiny Lunar Flashlight cubesat, which aimed to hunt for water ice in shadowy lunar craters.

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