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Archive for June 22nd, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope spies on rocky TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet, finds bad news for life

June 22nd, 2023 by

New data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows that the atmosphere of a rocky exoplanet in the TRAPPIST-1 system is either nonexistent or incredibly thin.

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Watch 2 Russian cosmonauts perform spacewalk outside space station today

June 22nd, 2023 by

Two Russian cosmonauts will perform a roughly seven-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (June 22), and you can watch the action live.

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‘Star Trek: Infinite’ lets gamers explore strange new worlds and wage epic space battles

June 22nd, 2023 by

The new “Star Trek: Infinite” game is coming to PC this fall, offering players a massive strategy experience between four major galactic factions in the Trek universe.

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Watch sunlight dance across Earth from solstice to solstice in this gorgeous video

June 22nd, 2023 by

An amazing new video demonstrates how Earth’s tilt changes throughout the year, causing the day to lengthen and shorten from north to south as the planet orbits the sun.

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Watch SpaceX launch 47 Starlink satellites early Thursday

June 22nd, 2023 by

SpaceX will launch another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites early Thursday morning (June 22), and you can watch the action live.

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The Milky Way’s monster black hole let out a huge blast 200 years ago. We can now listen to its echo (video)

June 22nd, 2023 by

NASA’s X-ray observatory detected the echo of a flare likely caused when an object, perhaps a gas cloud or star, was ripped apart by our galaxy’s black hole.

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Sun unleashes giant X-flare in outburst that could spark auroras on Mars (video)

June 22nd, 2023 by

The sun unleashed a mighty eruption on Tuesday (June 20) that could spark a light show on Mars. Earth will miss out on the auroras this time, however.

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Cosmonaut rounds out SpaceX’s Crew-7 mission to the space station

June 22nd, 2023 by

SpaceX’s seventh operational astronaut mission to the International Space Station now has a full crew manifest.

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