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Everything we know about Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Submit on Wednesday, August 30th, 2023 19:11

While we wait for Avatar 3 to arrive in 2025, James Cameron and Ubisoft plan to keep us busy with the open-world video game Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.

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Dead ‘vampire’ star is feeding on a companion and firing out cosmic cannonballs

Submit on Wednesday, August 30th, 2023 19:11

A dead star feeding on a stellar companion seems to have two brightness modes. It’s because, astronomers discovered, the system launches cosmic cannonballs.

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The last Super Blue Moon until 2037 rises tonight. Here’s how to see it

Submit on Wednesday, August 30th, 2023 17:11

Skywatchers get to see a second full moon this month on Wednesday (Aug. 30), and it is a special one: A rare unification of a Blue Moon and a “supermoon.”

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Chandrayaan-3 moon rover reveals surprising composition of lunar south pole soil

Submit on Wednesday, August 30th, 2023 17:11

An instrument aboard the mission’s Pragyan rover has found traces of sulfur within the lunar south pole’s soil.

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NASA discussing September arrival of OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample: Watch live today

Submit on Wednesday, August 30th, 2023 17:11

NASA will discuss the September arrival of asteroid samples collected by its OSIRIS-REx probe during a press conference today (Aug. 30), and you can watch it live.

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Hackers shut down 2 of the world’s most advanced telescopes

Submit on Wednesday, August 30th, 2023 05:11

The U.S. National Science Foundation reported that a cybersecurity incident has temporarily shut down operations at its Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii and Gemini South Telescope in Chile.

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Private company wants to clean up space junk with ‘capture bags’ in Earth orbit

Submit on Wednesday, August 30th, 2023 04:12

Space junk could one day be snatched in orbit with a strong bag, if a new contract to test the technology ends up flying in space.

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Bizarre super-puffy exoplanet hosts rare ‘thermometer molecule’

Submit on Wednesday, August 30th, 2023 03:11

A rare temperature-sensitive molecule usually found in stars has been discovered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time, a marshmallow-like hot Jupiter called WASP-31b.

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