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Archive for May 29th, 2024

How scientists shipped astronomy’s largest camera from California to Chile

May 29th, 2024 by

The largest camera ever built for astronomy arrived in Chile, where it will be installed atop Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope.

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Netflix’s new sci-fi flick ‘Atlas’ charms with old-school heroics and rousing mech fights (review)

May 29th, 2024 by

A review of director Brad Peyton’s new sci-fi adventure flick, “Atlas.”

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Scientists pick their favorite Euclid ‘dark universe’ telescope images: ‘The best is still to come’

May 29th, 2024 by

The European Space Agency has now released ten images from its dark universe detective spacecraft, Euclid. We asked scientists from various fields to pick their favorite Euclid image thus far.

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Watch SpaceX send Earth-observing satellite to orbit today on 2nd leg of doubleheader

May 29th, 2024 by

SpaceX will launch the EarthCARE mission this afternoon (May 28) after sending aloft a group of Starlinks this morning, and you can watch the action live.

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Chinese astronauts perform record-breaking spacewalk outside Tiangong space station (video)

May 29th, 2024 by

Two Chinese astronauts spent about 8.5 hours outside the Tiangong space station today (May 28), setting a new spacewalk-duration record for the country.

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Does the Milky Way orbit anything?

May 29th, 2024 by

Do galaxies, including our own Milky Way, orbit anything in the universe?

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Zero Debris Charter aims to boost international cooperation on cleaning up Earth’s space junk problem

May 29th, 2024 by

ESA and some of its member states have signed the non-binding Zero Debris Charter, committing themselves to take steps to help tackle the orbital debris problem.

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