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Archive for February 20th, 2025

Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo)

February 20th, 2025 by me

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the ??colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and active star-forming regions in our galactic backyard.

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin announces crew for 10th space tourism launch

February 20th, 2025 by me

Blue Origin just revealed the identities of five of the six crewmembers for NS-30, its next suborbital space tourism mission. The company has not yet announced a launch date.

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NASA lowers impact risk of ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 to 1 in 67 (phew!)

February 20th, 2025 by me

Breathe a sigh of relief! NASA has dropped the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 67, just a day after it became the highest-risk asteroid since records began.

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Einstein Probe’s X-ray vision discovers an ‘impossible’ pair of vampire stars

February 20th, 2025 by me

A flash of X-ray light has revealed the existence of an odd couple of stars, a massive star and a white dwarf, that shouldn’t really exist together.

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Musk and Trump just repeated inaccurate claims of ‘stranded’ Starliner astronauts. NASA and the astronauts don’t agree

February 20th, 2025 by me

Elon Musk and President Trump continue to advance the narrative that NASA astronauts from Boeing’s Starliner mission were “abandoned” in space.

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What is dark energy? Exploding white dwarf stars may help us crack the case

February 20th, 2025 by me

Astronomers have studied 3,600 supernovas to discover diversity in exploding white dwarf stars, a vital tool in the investigation of dark energy.

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Black holes snacking on small stars create particle accelerators that bombard Earth with cosmic rays

February 20th, 2025 by me

Gamma rays detected by NASA’s Fermi spacecraft indicate that microquasars are powered by small black holes slowly devouring stars. They pack quite a punch, bombarding Earth with cosmic rays.

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Leaving Pluto in the dust: New Horizons probe gearing up for epic crossing of ‘termination shock’

February 20th, 2025 by me

NASA’s New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the “termination shock,” an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, as early as 2027.

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