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Archive for January, 2025

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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Trump’s space policy won’t catch Europe off guard, ESA chief says

January 17th, 2025 by me

The head of the European Space Agency says that ESA is ready for any changes in NASA’s direction that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump may make.

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Photographer captures rare Comet G3 ATLAS from UK in dramatic ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ image

January 16th, 2025 by me

Photographer Josh Dury captured rare Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) in a dramatic ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ image after a challenging chase across UK skies at dusk.

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