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Archive for April, 2025

Northern Lights in Mexico? Low-latitudes may be more vulnerable than expected to geomagnetic storms

April 2nd, 2025 by me

Mother’s Day 2024 heralded Mexico’s most powerful geomagnetic storm in two decades. Here’s why scientists say this is something to track.

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NASA’s new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: ‘The instrument team nailed it’

April 2nd, 2025 by me

NASA’s new infrared telescope named “SPHEREx” has officially opened its eyes to the cosmos.

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‘I’d get on in a heartbeat’: Starliner astronauts would fly on Boeing spacecraft again despite malfunctions (video)

April 2nd, 2025 by me

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore both say they’d ride on Boeing’s Starliner again, despite the issues the capsule had on its first crewed flight.

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New alien abduction film ‘Watch the Skies’ is giving us Swedish Spielberg vibes (video)

April 2nd, 2025 by me

Check out this peek at new alien abduction thriller “Watch the Skies” coming to theaters May 9.

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Déjà vu: President Trump nominates Greg Autry again to be NASA’s financial chief

April 2nd, 2025 by me

President Trump has nominated space policy expert Greg Autry to be NASA’s chief financial officer, as he did back in 2020 to no avail.

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Rare ‘double sunrise’ captured in Canada by intrepid solar eclipse chasers (photos)

April 2nd, 2025 by me

Cloud-dodging eclipse chasers in New Brunswick and Québec, Canada, captured the solar horns, reflections and all kinds of weird views as the sun rose partially eclipsed.

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Floating blue-eyed robot keeps watch on the ISS: Space photo of the day

April 2nd, 2025 by me

Looking like a soccer ball with glowing blue eyes, the Japanese Experiment Module Internal Ball Camera-2 is put to test aboard the International Space Station.

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DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth’s atmosphere

April 2nd, 2025 by me

Researchers with the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth’s atmosphere as a sensor to detect a distant disturbance.

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