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Archive for February, 2024

India’s Chandrayaan-2 moon orbiter catalogs tons of mysterious solar flares

February 7th, 2024 by

Over the course of 3 years, Chandrayaan-2 observed thousands of mysterious, slow-building, ultra-hot solar flares as they erupted from the sun.

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NASA’s Juno probe snaps outstanding photos of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io during close flyby

February 7th, 2024 by

During its second close rendezvous with Jupiter’s volcanic moon, NASA’s Juno spacecraft collected some amazing images of the scene.

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Asteroid 2024 BX1 fragments confirmed to be rare meteorites as old as the solar system itself

February 7th, 2024 by

When asteroid 2024 BX1 exploded over Earth it littered the planet with rare meteorites that are similar in composition to the unspoiled building blocks of our planet.

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Virgin Galactic mothership loses alignment pin during space plane launch, FAA investigating

February 7th, 2024 by

Virgin Galactic informed the FAA that the mothership of its space plane VSS Unity lost a piece of hardware on its most recent suborbital flight.

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NASA exoplanet telescope discovers ‘super-Earth’ in its star’s Goldilocks zone

February 7th, 2024 by

NASA’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has spotted a ‘super-Earth’ in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star, with indications it may have Earth-sized company.

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Watch the sun spit out colossal plasma plume during powerful solar flare eruption (video)

February 6th, 2024 by

Watch the moment a huge plasma plume is hurled out from the sun during a powerful solar flare eruption, causing widespread radio blackouts in the South Pacific.

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Best budget binoculars 2024: Cheap but high-quality models

February 6th, 2024 by

Here are our top picks of affordable yet good-quality budget binoculars.

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Zoozve — the strange ‘moon’ of Venus that earned its name by accident

February 6th, 2024 by

The first quasi-moon ever discovered is now officially named Zoozve.

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