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Archive for September 25th, 2023

‘I literally broke into tears’: The scientist leading NASA’s epic OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission just had the greatest day ever

September 25th, 2023 by

As his spacecraft was hurtling toward Earth carrying irreplaceable asteroid samples from deep space, Dante Lauretta was just trying to avoid having a breakdown in front of an international audience.

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Sky Tonight Star Gazer Guide stargazing app review

September 25th, 2023 by

With beautiful AR functionality and a host of fascinating information, Sky Tonight Star Gazer Guide has a lot to offer stargazing enthusiasts.

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Possible hints of life found on distant planet – how excited should we be?

September 25th, 2023 by

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has shown that an exoplanet around a star in the constellation Leo has some of the chemical markers that, on Earth, are associated with living organisms.

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Last supermoon of 2023 rises this week. Don’t miss the Harvest Moon shine with 3 bright planets

September 25th, 2023 by

This year’s final supermoon, September’s Harvest Full Moon, rises on Friday, Sept. 29, bringing a summer of supermoons to a close and joined by a planetary parade of Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury.

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Heating and cooling space habitats isn’t easy – one engineering team is developing a lighter, more efficient solution

September 25th, 2023 by

It’s hard to keep a spacecraft cool, but ongoing research on the International Space Station might yield a solution.

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Nuclear ‘pasta’ cooked up by dead stars could unravel the secrets of stellar afterlife

September 25th, 2023 by

In the extreme hearts of neutron stars, fundamental particles are twisted into strange ‘pasta’ shapes that could reveal untold secrets about how dead stars evolve.

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Our entire galaxy is warping, and a gigantic blob of dark matter could be to blame

September 25th, 2023 by

An invisible halo of misaligned dark matter could explain the warps at the Milky Way’s edges.

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After NASA’s epic OSIRIS-REx capsule landing success, spacecraft heads to asteroid Apophis on new mission

September 25th, 2023 by

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe, which delivered samples of the space rock Bennu to Earth, is now on an extended voyage to study the infamous near-Earth asteroid Apophis.

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