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Archive for April 27th, 2025

Uranus passed between Earth and a distant star this month — and NASA caught the rare event

April 27th, 2025 by me

NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus’ atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth and a distant star, creating a “stellar occultation.”

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20 years ago, ‘Star Wars: Republic Commando’ made us care about the clones long before ‘The Clone Wars’ and ‘The Bad Batch’

April 27th, 2025 by me

The 2005 cult classic was pivotal to giving the Grand Army of the Republic faces and voices before George Lucas and Dave Filoni went deeper.

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Trump administration cancels lease for NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies lab in New York City

April 27th, 2025 by me

The Trump administration has canceled the New York City lease of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a leading NASA climate-studying organization.

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Faint Neptune joins Venus and Saturn to form a planetary triangle in the pre-dawn sky on April 28

April 27th, 2025 by me

Venus, Saturn and dim Neptune will form a planetary triangle in the pre-dawn sky on April 28, with Mercury hovering on the periphery.

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