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Archive for September, 2023

‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ drops a wild new Season 4 trailer and official poster (video)

September 7th, 2023 by

Paramount+ released a new “Star Trek: Lower Decks” Season 4 trailer and official poster ahead of the season premiere on Thursday (Sept. 7).

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Hubble Space Telescope sees lonely galaxy looming in isolation (photo)

September 7th, 2023 by

A distant galaxy sits isolated in a new photo from the powerful observatory.

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See the sun’s atmosphere like never before thanks to a simple Solar Orbiter camera hack (video)

September 7th, 2023 by

The European Solar Orbiter spacecraft has peered into yet unexplored parts of the sun’s atmosphere thanks to a simple hack to its main camera.

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Orbiting debris trackers could be a game changer in space junk monitoring

September 7th, 2023 by

Tiny devices on satellites could soon track small pieces of space debris that are invisible to existing space junk monitoring systems but capable of destroying spacecraft if they collide with it.

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Here’s our last look at Europe’s Aeolus satellite falling to its fiery death (photo)

September 7th, 2023 by

ESA’s wind-measuring Aeolus satellite was spotted before its flaming demise over Antarctica.

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Could an ‘Earth-like’ planet be hiding in our solar system’s outer reaches?

September 7th, 2023 by

A hypothetical Kuiper Belt Planet in the far reaches of our solar system could help explain the peculiar orbits of many trans-Neptunian objects.

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Caroline Herschel was England’s first female professional astronomer, but still lacks name recognition two centuries later

September 6th, 2023 by

Caroline Herschel, the first English professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today.

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Earliest magnetic galaxy ever detected offers clues about Milky Way history

September 6th, 2023 by

The magnetic field is a thousand times weaker than Earth’s, but is spread out across 16,000 light years.

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