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Archive for July, 2024

Jumping on an asteroid: How VR is being used to visit worlds we can never reach

July 7th, 2024 by

At the 2024 Astronomical Society of Australia’s Annual Scientific Meeting, I got to walk on an asteroid in virtual reality. Here’s what I found in Ryugu World.

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Chasing the midnight sun along Norway’s arctic coastline

July 7th, 2024 by

Join me on an adventure along Norway’s stunning coastline as I explore the strange phenomenon of the midnight sun, where the sun doesn’t set below the horizon.

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SpaceX’s Starship to fly again ‘in 4 weeks,’ Elon Musk says

July 6th, 2024 by

SpaceX aims to launch the fifth test flight of its huge Starship rocket just four weeks from now, Elon Musk said.

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‘Space Cadet’ is a silly sendup of NASA’s serious astronaut training program (review)

July 6th, 2024 by

A review of Prime Video’s new NASA astronaut training comedy, “Space Cadet,” starring Emma Roberts.

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Watch NASA’s 1st year-long mock Mars mission wrap up today

July 6th, 2024 by

Four volunteers will exit a mock Mars habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center today (July 6), bringing the agency’s first year-long simulated Red Planet mission to an end.

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 118 —Understanding the Darkness

July 6th, 2024 by

On Episode 118 of This Week In Space, Rod and guest co-host Isaac Arthur talk with Alina Kiessling and Jason Rhodes of JPL about the concepts of dark matter and dark energy.

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The great silence: Just 4 in 10,000 galaxies may host intelligent aliens

July 6th, 2024 by

Without plate tectonics, oceans and continents, complex life that is able to invent and master advanced technology might never evolve.

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Earth has 7 strange quasi-moons — and you could name one of them

July 6th, 2024 by

The International Astronomical Union has partnered with the Radiolab podcast to present a quasi-moon-naming contest.

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