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Archive for March, 2024

A ‘snowball fight’ may help scientists find life on Jupiter’s moon Europa

March 22nd, 2024 by

Impact craters in Europa’s icy crust have been used to measure the thickness of the world’s shell, leading scientists closer to learning if this frozen moon could host life as we know it.

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Hubble Space Telescope discovers ‘failed stars’ are bad at relationships too

March 22nd, 2024 by

Using the Hubble astronomers found that “failed star” brown dwarfs struggle to maintain relationships as passing stars disrupt them like the cosmic equivalent of the distracted boyfriend meme.

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Astronomers call for radio silence on the far side of the moon

March 22nd, 2024 by

There’s a growing and passionate call for preserving radio silence on the far side of the moon in order to protect the possibility of conducting valuable radio astronomy.

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Dying SpaceX rocket creates glowing, galaxy-like spiral in the middle of the Northern Lights

March 22nd, 2024 by

A large swirl of white light that temporarily outshone vibrant auroras in the Arctic last week was triggered by the death throes of a SpaceX rocket that deployed more than 50 satellites into space.

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Historical incidents of viewing total eclipses near the edge of totality

March 22nd, 2024 by

As we prepare for the upcoming solar eclipse on April 8, we take a look at some famous incidents of viewing total eclipses near the edge of totality.

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Life after Ingenuity: How scientists hope to reach the skies of Mars once more

March 22nd, 2024 by

The concept for a flying, wing-heavy drone called MAGGIE could one day show us an entirely new perspective on Mars.

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James Webb Space Telescope to investigate the stunning light shows of Saturn and Uranus

March 22nd, 2024 by

The James Webb Space Telescope will soon investigate stunning light shows from Uranus and Saturn as two projects look at the auroras of these planets to discover the processes that make them tick.

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NASA’s DART mission hammered its target asteroid into a new shape. Here’s how

March 21st, 2024 by

When NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into the small asteroid Dimorphos in September of 2022, the impact’s energy changed the asteroid’s trajectory and substantially altered its shape.

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