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Archive for May, 2024

Elusive medium-size black holes may form in dense ‘birthing nests’

May 31st, 2024 by

A new simulation has shown elusive intermediate-mass black holes may form in dense globular clusters of millions of tightly packed stars, thanks to a chaotic collision chain.

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How NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX asteroid probe survived its 1st close encounter with the sun

May 31st, 2024 by

OSIRIS-APEX emerged unscathed from its first of six close brushes with the sun, thanks to some clever engineering.

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James Webb Space Telescope spots the 2 earliest galaxies ever seen (image)

May 31st, 2024 by

James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the two earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen. One, JADES-GS-z14-0, is a massive and bright galaxy that existed just 300 million years after the Big Bang.

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Boeing’s Starliner rolls out to pad for June 1 astronaut launch (photos)

May 31st, 2024 by

Boeing’s Starliner capsule rolled out to the pad today (May 30) ahead of its first-ever astronaut launch, which is scheduled for June 1.

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Japan loses contact with Akatsuki, humanity’s only active Venus probe

May 31st, 2024 by

The Japanese space agency has lost contact with its intrepid Venus orbiter, Akatsuki.

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Space debris from SpaceX Dragon capsule crashed in the North Carolina mountains. I had to go see it (video)

May 30th, 2024 by

A large piece of debris was found on a mountainside in North Carolina last week, suspected to be left over from the reentry of SpaceX’s Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station.

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Solar Orbiter traces solar wind back to its mysterious source for 1st time

May 30th, 2024 by

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has, for the first time, traced solar wind in space to a specific location on our sun’s surface.

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See the moon and Saturn meet in the night sky early on May 31

May 30th, 2024 by

Saturn will appear just above the third quarter moon in the sky in the early hours of Friday (May 31).

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