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Supermassive black holes prefer to eat from wobbly plates

November 11th, 2024 by

Researchers have discovered the first evidence that the brightest accretion disks around supermassive black holes “wobble” as their monstrous occupants drag them around.

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SpaceX launching 24 Starlink satellites from Florida today

November 10th, 2024 by

SpaceX plans to launch 24 of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast today (Nov. 10).

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‘Mass Effect’ TV series is headed to Amazon Prime Video

November 10th, 2024 by

After more than a decade of waiting for a big-screen project that never materialized, Mass Effect is headed to Prime Video.

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Star Wars is following in the MCU’s footsteps, but is this the way?

November 10th, 2024 by

Is shaping Star Wars’ next live-action era after the tired Marvel Cinematic Universe the right path forward?

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NASA’s Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets

November 10th, 2024 by

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will enable scientists to detect the faint light from planets beyond our solar system.

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 136 —SpaceX Ascendant

November 9th, 2024 by

On Episode 136 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with journalist and author Eric Berger about the rise of SpaceX and Elon Musk’s future in US politics and the market.

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Where do fast radio bursts come from? Astronomers tie mysterious eruptions to massive galaxies

November 9th, 2024 by

Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead stars known as magnetars, a new study suggests.

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China’s space agency brought the 1st lunar far side samples to Earth this year — here’s what’s next

November 9th, 2024 by

China has opened up the first round of applications for researchers who wish to use some of the Chang’e 6 lunar far side samples for research.

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