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Archive for April, 2024

‘Rocket cam’ takes you aboard final launch of ULA’s Delta IV Heavy (video)

April 26th, 2024 by

After 64 years, the United Launch Alliance launched the final flight of its Delta IV Heavy rocket on April 9th, and stunning rocket cam footage captured the fiery finale.

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Stellar detectives find suspect for incredibly powerful ‘superflares’

April 25th, 2024 by

Some stars erupt with ‘superflares’ 10,000 times as powerful as solar flares from the sun. A team of “stellar detectives” are on the case and may now know why some stars are so violent.

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NASA’s Fermi space telescope finds a strange supernova with missing gamma rays

April 25th, 2024 by

NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope has failed to see gamma rays from a nearby supernova that should be created when it generates the high-energy cosmic rays that bombard Earth in their trillions.

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China launches 3 astronauts to Tiangong space station on Shenzhou 18 mission (video)

April 25th, 2024 by

A Long March 2F rocket lifted off from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center today (April 25), carrying the Shenzhou 18 spacecraft and its three-person crew into orbit.

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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ S05, E05 is a quality installment, but it’s weighed down by another anchor of nostalgia

April 25th, 2024 by

The chase across the galaxy for the Progenitors MacGuffin continues, offering chances to insert stand-alone, episode-length adventures along the way.

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Across the universe, dark matter annihilation could be warming up dead stars

April 25th, 2024 by

Neutron stars could act as gravitational traps for dark matter, forcing these mysterious particles to collide, annihilate and warm up otherwise cold dead stars.

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During the solar system’s chaotic era, Jupiter may have helped form Earth’s moon

April 25th, 2024 by

EL chondrite meteorites come from the Athor family of asteroids, the progenitor of which was dumped in the asteroid belt by the migrating gas giants between 60 million and 100 million years after the birth of the solar system.

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Watch 2 cosmonauts conduct spacewalk outside the ISS today

April 25th, 2024 by

Two Russian cosmonauts are scheduled to spend about seven hours working outside the International Space Station today (April 25), and you can watch the action live.

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