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Archive for August, 2024

New Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle features ‘most accurate details’ in a Lego set

August 1st, 2024 by

There is a moment when building Lego’s new NASA-inspired set that the assembly goes from looking like plastic bricks to being a moon buggy. Then you realize you’re not even a quarter of the way done.

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What do Yoda and Darth Plagueis cameos mean for the future of ‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’?

August 1st, 2024 by

We closely examine Darth Plagueis and Yoda’s cameos in the finale of ‘The Acolyte’ and try to figure out how they might be used in the future.

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After ISS: The private space station era is dawning

August 1st, 2024 by

As the end of the ISS looms on the horizon, NASA and private space companies are looking forward to the era of private space stations and what it will mean for humanity’s presence in low Earth orbit.

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Hubble spots a stunning spiral galaxy shining in the ‘Little Lion’ (image)

August 1st, 2024 by

A new Hubble Telescope image shines a spotlight on a classic spiral galaxy named NGC 3430.

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Magnetic fields on the sun could solve longstanding solar heating mystery

August 1st, 2024 by

A new study reveals waves of magnetism within the sun could help explain why the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is hundreds of times hotter than its surface.

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Can the moon help preserve Earth’s endangered species?

August 1st, 2024 by

The moon may soon be home to frozen samples of Earth’s endangered creatures. New research proposes a lunar biorepository to preserve animal skin samples with cells from the world’s endangered species.

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Moon robots could build stone walls to protect lunar bases from rocket exhaust

August 1st, 2024 by

A robotic excavator could build a dry stone wall to act as a blast shield around a launch pad on the moon, a new study suggests.

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Ghostly ‘zodiacal light’ glows above the Very Large Telescope in Chile (photo)

August 1st, 2024 by

A new photo shows the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope beneath a star-studded sky at sunset, illuminated by a phenomenon known as the zodiacal light.

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