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Archive for August 21st, 2023

SpaceX rolls rocket to pad ahead of Crew-7 astronaut launch (photos)

August 21st, 2023 by

SpaceX has rolled its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule to the launch pad ahead of the planned Friday (Aug. 25) liftoff of the Crew-7 astronaut mission for NASA.

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Ten episodes of Star Wars to watch before Ahsoka

August 21st, 2023 by

Fifteen years after she made her debut in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Jedi Ashoka Tano is finally getting her own Disney Plus series, Star Wars: Ahsoka.

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SpaceX lights up the skies with midnight Starlink launch (photos)

August 21st, 2023 by

Photos from SpaceX’s recent Starlink launch highlight Falcon 9’s raw power, as its rocket engines illuminate the night.

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Turns out you can transmit sound in a vacuum, just not very far

August 21st, 2023 by

For the first time, researchers were able to transmit, or “tunnel,” sound waves across extremely small distances between two crystals in a vacuum.

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Who is Ahsoka Tano?

August 21st, 2023 by

The journey of Ahsoka, Anakin Skywalker’s former apprentice continues this summer on Disney Plus. Need to catch up? Here’s a quick rundown of her story so far.

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Who is Grand Admiral Thrawn?

August 21st, 2023 by

Grand Admiral Thrawn is being set up as the big bad in the Ahsoka series. Who is he and what does he want? Here’s a quick rundown of his story so far.

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We still don’t know what dark matter is, but here’s what it’s not

August 21st, 2023 by

An experimental detector can now rule out dark matter particles down to about a fifth of a proton’s mass.

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Are we really made of ‘star stuff’ and what does that even mean? (video)

August 21st, 2023 by

Astronomer Carl Sagan once said that humanity is “made of star stuff.” In a new video, astrophysicist Suzanna Randall explains what that actually means and where the elements in our body come from.

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