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Archive for April, 2025

Newly launched NASA satellites open eyes to start studying ‘auroral electrojets’ in Earth’s atmosphere

April 28th, 2025 by me

The first bits of data have come back from NASA’s EZIE cubesat mission, which aims to solve some mysteries surrounding the “auroral electrojet” phenomena in Earth’s atmosphere.

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Scientists use the JWST to study an extremely ancient galaxy piercing through the Cosmic Dark Ages

April 28th, 2025 by me

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have found an extremely ancient galaxy piercing through a thick blanket of cosmic fog in the distant universe.

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SpaceX launches 250th Starlink satellite mission, lands rocket at sea (photos)

April 28th, 2025 by me

SpaceX launched its 250th dedicated Starlink mission on Sunday night (April 27), sending 23 of the broadband satellites to low Earth orbit.

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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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Meet the ‘Doctor Who’ actors who brought the retrofuturistic robots to life for season 2’s ‘The Robot Revolution’ (interview)

April 26th, 2025 by me

Veteran creature artists Stephen Love and Rob Strange share the rigors of having zero vision and taking tumbles while playing retro robots.

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