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Archive for January 17th, 2025

100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn’t alone

January 17th, 2025 by me

A century ago, humans didn’t know other galaxies existed. Here’s how Edwin Hubble changed that view.

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SpaceX catches Super Heavy booster on Starship Flight 7 test but loses upper stage (video, photos)

January 17th, 2025 by me

SpaceX pulled off a launch-tower catch of Starship’s Super Heavy booster during a test flight today (Jan. 16) but lost the vehicle’s upper stage.

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Watch SpaceX Starship explode over Atlantic Ocean on Flight Test 7 (videos)

January 17th, 2025 by me

The upper stage of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket exploded over the Atlantic Ocean during the vehicle’s Flight 7 test today (Jan. 16), and lots of people saw the sky show.

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‘Dune’ director David Lynch dies at 78

January 17th, 2025 by me

An obituary for iconic filmmaker David Lynch who died Jan. 16, 2025.

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Centuries-old supernova guides James Webb Space Telescope through an interstellar gap

January 17th, 2025 by me

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the first exquisite images of an interstellar patch of sky, about 11,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.

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Astronauts repair black hole observatory, inspect cosmic ray detector on ISS spacewalk

January 17th, 2025 by me

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams completed a six-hour spacewalk to repair and upgrade equipment outside the International Space Station on Thursday (Jan. 16).

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Major milestone! India becomes 4th nation to dock satellites in orbit

January 17th, 2025 by me

India successfully docked its two SpaDex satellites in Earth orbit yesterday (Jan. 15), becoming just the fourth country to pull off such a satellite meetup.

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Our warming Earth: 2024 was hottest year on record, NASA says

January 17th, 2025 by me

2024 was the warmest year on record, according to NASA data. The global average temperature was 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit above the mid-20th-century baseline.

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