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Archive for December 12th, 2023

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 5 snippet shows Burnham battling giant, invisible bugs

December 12th, 2023 by

By the looks of the new cast photograph, everyone in “Star Trek: Discovery” has returned for this, the fifth and final season.

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Intergalactic ‘stream of stars’ 10 times longer than the Milky Way is the 1st of its kind ever spotted

December 12th, 2023 by

While hunting for dark matter, astronomers accidentally discovered the first known stellar stream stretching between galaxies. The trail of stars is also the longest ever seen.

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SETI is searching for alien life at previously unexplored frequencies

December 12th, 2023 by

Despite the seemingly boundless expanse of the universe, which implies there’s potential for abundant life, the vast distances between stars render the search akin to locating a needle in a cosmic haystack.

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What 8,000 hours flying military jets taught 2 Canadian astronauts

December 12th, 2023 by

With 8,000 hours of flying experience between them, Cols. Jeremy Hansen and Joshua Kutryk credit the Royal Canadian Air Force for getting them ready for Canadian Space Agency missions.

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Watch SpaceX’s Starship go boom twice in this epic test-flight highlight video

December 12th, 2023 by

The second-ever test flight of SpaceX’s giant Starship vehicle was action-packed, as a new video shows.

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SpaceX scrubs Falcon Heavy’s X-37B space plane launch due to ground issue

December 12th, 2023 by

SpaceX scrubbed Monday’s (Dec. 11) planned Falcon Heavy launch of the US military’s X-37B space plane, citing a ‘ground side issue.’

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Astronaut shows off vintage Nobel Prize in space — and talks ‘quantum dots’ ISS experiment (video)

December 12th, 2023 by

A quantum experiment, based on a Nobel Prize work, is mounted outside the International Space Station. The new Nobel laureate called the ISS to talk about it all.

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SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites from Florida tonight

December 12th, 2023 by

SpaceX plans to launch 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (Dec. 11), just hours after it’s scheduled to launch the U.S. Space Force’s X-37B space plane.

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