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Archive for July 19th, 2025

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 169 — The Day Mars Died

July 19th, 2025 by me

On Episode 169 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by JPL Chief Engineer Emeritus Rob Manning to look back at the Mariner 4 Mars mission 60 years later.

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See the moon cross the Pleiades for the last time this year on July 20

July 19th, 2025 by me

The moon’s crescent limb will cloak and uncover stars from the iconic cluster before sunrise.

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10 unique tours and experiences for the 2027 ‘eclipse of the century’

July 19th, 2025 by me

From “Star Wars” film sets to baboons in Saudi Arabia, here’s how to experience the “eclipse of the century” in style on Aug. 2, 2027.

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Twin NASA Mars probes will fly on 2nd-ever launch of Blue Origin’s huge New Glenn rocket

July 19th, 2025 by me

Blue Origin’s powerful New Glenn rocket now has a payload for its second-ever flight —NASA’s ESCAPADE Mars mission.

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2 new NASA satellites will track space weather to help keep us safe from solar storms

July 19th, 2025 by me

The new TRACERS mission will track magnetic reconnection that drives particles down into Earth’s atmosphere when space weather turns bad.

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Friday night light: SpaceX launch from California sends two dozen new Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit

July 19th, 2025 by me

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday, July 18, 2025.

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Astronomers discover strange solar system body dancing in sync with Neptune: ‘Like finding a hidden rhythm in a song’

July 19th, 2025 by me

Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice giant Neptune.

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Newly discovered ‘cosmic unicorn’ is a spinning dead star that defies physics: ‘We have a real mystery on our hands’

July 19th, 2025 by me

Two teams of astronomers have simultaneously discovered a strange, spinning dead star that seems to defy our current understanding of both neutron stars and white dwarfs.

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