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Archive for January, 2025

World’s largest telescope gets its protective shell (photos)

January 19th, 2025 by me

The mighty telescope is expected to see its “first light” by 2028.

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20 years after crashing in the Utah desert, NASA’s Genesis mission is still teaching us about solar wind

January 19th, 2025 by me

Despite crashing in the Utah desert in 2004, NASA’s Genesis mission is still helping scientists study the effects of solar wind.

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 144 —The great lunar armada

January 18th, 2025 by me

On Episode 144 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik take a look a pair of private moon missions by Firefly Aerospace and ispace that lifted off this week and so much more.

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Nikon 5×15 HG monocular review

January 18th, 2025 by me

The Nikon 5×15 HG monocular is tiny, but it promises the same high-quality build and lens of Nikon’s other optical devices.

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Satellites watch ‘ghost island’ solidify in the Caspian Sea before disappearing (photos)

January 18th, 2025 by me

The Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea created an island in early 2023 that had almost disappeared by the end of 2024, according to Landsate satellite imagery.

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World’s largest telescope threatened by light pollution from renewable energy project

January 18th, 2025 by me

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world’s most precious sky-observing location faces a light pollution risk due to a new renewable energy project.

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SpaceX launching 27 Starlink satellites today in 1st flight since Starship explosion

January 18th, 2025 by me

SpaceX is set to launch 27 of its Starlink internet satellites today (Jan. 18), just two days after a test flight of its Starship megarocket ended in an explosion.

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Step inside a virtual reality art piece inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope

January 18th, 2025 by me

Ashley Zelinskie’s VR artwork Twin Quasar was inspired by the iconic deep-space image from the James Webb Space Telescope that introduced a new audience to gravitational lensing.

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