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Archive for April, 2025

Fixing the Hubble Space Telescope: A timeline of NASA’s shuttle servicing missions

April 23rd, 2025 by me

Spacewalking astronauts repaired and upgraded the famed Hubble Telescope during five missions from 1993 to 2009. Here’s a summary of these epic servicing efforts.

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ELVIS in orbit: New 3D microscope arrives at the ISS to study microbes in space

April 23rd, 2025 by me

A new microscope just arrived at the International Space Station to help study life’s adaptability under extreme conditions using an innovative imaging technique.

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Yousa in big doo-doo now, as Darth Jar Jar makes his way to Fortnite in the new Star Wars collaboration (video)

April 23rd, 2025 by me

The next Fortnite x Star Wars collaboration will bring new content to Epic Games’ hit online multiplayer game, including starfighters, Darth Jar Jar, and a new live event.

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It’s alive! It’s alive! Orion throws back its cover | Space picture of the day for April 22, 2025

April 23rd, 2025 by me

NASA engineers tested the functionality of Orion’s forward bay cover, which is the last component of the spacecraft that must be ejected before parachutes deploy to land.

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Scientists confused by missing coastal features on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon

April 23rd, 2025 by me

Scientists have long known that Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, hosts rivers and seas of liquid methane. But it’s strangely lacking in river deltas, a new study suggests.

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NASA’s Lucy probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing ‘strikingly complicated geology’

April 23rd, 2025 by me

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, currently journeying toward Jupiter’s orbit on its asteroid-hopping mission, captured an impressive close-up of its second target: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson.

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Has the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a ‘missing’ supermassive black hole? (video)

April 23rd, 2025 by me

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered “smoking gun” evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive black hole in a distant spiral galaxy.

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We took a guided tour of the solar system in Elite Dangerous, and now you can too (interview)

April 22nd, 2025 by me

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our home system.

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