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Archive for January 16th, 2025

Watch 2 NASA astronauts repair X-ray telescope on ISS during a spacewalk today

January 16th, 2025 by me

NASA’s Nick Hague and Suni Williams will service the X-ray telescope attached to the ISS during a 6.5-hour-long spacewalk today (Jan. 16). Watch it live.

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Space Mountain at 50: Five nods to NASA from the Walt Disney World ride

January 16th, 2025 by me

The ride today bears little resemblance to actual spaceflight. But in the 50 years Space Mountain has been running, there have been and still are several nods to NASA.

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The 7 best total solar eclipses of the next 10 years

January 16th, 2025 by me

We explore seven of the best solar eclipses to look out for over the next 10 years.

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Battlestar Galactica at 20: the show that reinvented space opera

January 16th, 2025 by me

How a kitsch “Star Wars” cash-in spawned a bona fide sci-fi classic. So say we all!

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Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as a violent ‘pale blue dot’ (image)

January 16th, 2025 by me

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 million light-years away from Earth.

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James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: ‘This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem’

January 16th, 2025 by me

The James Webb Space Telescope’s ancient “little red dot” galaxies have been seen as a sign of “broken cosmology.” Feeding supermassive black holes may have come to the rescue.

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