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Archive for September 21st, 2023

Bang! Inflatable space station module blows apart in explosive test (video)

September 21st, 2023 by

Sierra Space’s latest explosion with its LIFE module tested a metal plate inside an inflatable structure. The module will fly on a private successor to the International Space Station.

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$100,000 Breakthrough physics prize awarded to 3 scientists who study the large scale structure of the universe

September 21st, 2023 by

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonovi? won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its most fundamental properties.

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flies through major coronal mass ejection — and survives to tell the tale

September 21st, 2023 by

The sun-kissing spacecraft watched as dust particles were displaced across 6 million miles (9.7 million kilometers).

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Evidence of mysterious ‘recurring nova’ that could reappear in 2024 found in medieval manuscript from 1217

September 21st, 2023 by

The star T CrB flares up every 80 years. A document from 1217 could help confirm its regularity.

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Comet Nishimura photobombs NASA spacecraft after its close encounter with the sun (photos)

September 21st, 2023 by

Comet Nishimura has surprised NASA by photobombing its STEREO spacecraft, revealing it seems to have held together after its brush with the sun on Sept. 17.

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Water ice on the moon may be key for future space missions. But is there enough?

September 21st, 2023 by

There may be less water ice trapped in the permanently shadowed regions on the moon than previously thought.

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New Hubble image reveals intergalactic bridge between two merging realms

September 21st, 2023 by

A faint “bridge” of gas connects two colliding galaxies in a new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope.

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