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Archive for January 14th, 2025

Mysterious spiral galaxy jet puzzles astronomers: ‘At first, I thought I completely messed up’

January 14th, 2025 by me

Jets from a distant galaxy could offer fresh clues to how galaxies and their black holes evolve over eons.

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Space2Sea Antarctica: 2 Ukrainian soldiers fulfill 1st part of Antarctic dream

January 14th, 2025 by me

Visiting Antarctica — and, in particular, Ukraine’s Vernadsky Research Base on the continent’s peninsula — was a lifelong dream of two Ukrainian soldiers.

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Panasonic Lumix S5IIx review

January 14th, 2025 by me

The Panasonic Lumix S5IIx is an impressive full-frame camera that doesn’t cost the earth and delivers impressive features and performance.

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Dark matter may have caused a baffling break in this star stream

January 14th, 2025 by me

A strange break in a stream of stars in the Milky Way could be the result of dark matter, but only if the dark matter is hot and self-interacting.

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Blue Ghost moon lander will help NASA see Earth’s magnetic field ‘breathing’ for 1st time

January 14th, 2025 by me

Firefly Aerospace’s soon-to-launch Blue Ghost moon lander will help NASA better understand our home planet, and how it responds to space weather.

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Los Angeles fires leave NASA’s Deep Space Network mission control empty for 1st time in 60 years

January 14th, 2025 by me

Despite the evacuation of its Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, no space mission data has been lost, NASA says.

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SpaceX to launch 131 satellites on Transporter 12 rideshare mission today

January 14th, 2025 by me

SpaceX is set to launch 131 satellites to orbit today (Jan. 14) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, on a rideshare mission called Transporter 12.

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What happened to the flags Apollo astronauts left on the moon?

January 14th, 2025 by me

Astronauts placed six different American flags on the moon during the Apollo program. What became of those flags in the years since, and why were they controversial?

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