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Archive for December 19th, 2024

Watch Russian cosmonauts install new X-ray detector during ISS spacewalk today (video)

December 19th, 2024 by

Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner will perform a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk on Dec. 19 to install new equipment outside the ISS. Watch it live here, courtesy of NASA.

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Did the ‘Lower Decks’ finale just set up an exciting new ‘Star Trek’ spin-off?

December 19th, 2024 by

‘The New Next Generation’ is the last-ever episode of ‘Lower Decks’, but it almost feels like a backdoor pilot for a new ‘Star Trek’ show.

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‘Missing link’ black hole found? Not so fast, new study says

December 19th, 2024 by

A “missing link” black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a cluster of stellar-mass black holes.

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SpaceX will launch Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander to the moon in mid-January with these 10 NASA payloads

December 19th, 2024 by

NASA and SpaceX are targeting mid-January for the launch of Firefly Aerospace’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to the lunar surface.

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This baby exoplanet is made of different stuff than its birth cloud

December 19th, 2024 by

Investigating a young exoplanet called PDS 70b in its cocoon of natal gas and dust has shown that planets don’t always resemble the environments they form in.

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Puffy white dwarfs could shed light on mysterious dark matter. Here’s how.

December 19th, 2024 by

Astronomers just took a big step toward a better understanding of white dwarfs, a discovery that could shed light on mysterious dark matter.

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Double moon mission! SpaceX to launch 2 private lunar landers in January

December 19th, 2024 by

Firefly Aerospace and Japanese company ispace are putting their moon landers on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which is scheduled to lift off in January.

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Private Japanese rocket explodes after liftoff in its 2nd launch failure of 2024 (photos)

December 19th, 2024 by

Japanese startup Space One lost its second Kairos 2 rocket shortly after liftoff due to an unknown failure.

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