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James Webb Space Telescope gets satellite sidekick to aid search for habitable planets

Submit on Friday, June 16th, 2023 21:11

A new small satellite will peer at distant stars to help NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope search for potentially habitable exoplanets.

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Star Wars: Visions season 2 episodes ranked, worst to best

Submit on Friday, June 16th, 2023 19:14

The Emmy-nominated animated anthology Star Wars Visions returns to Disney+ and we’re counting down the shorts from bottom to top.

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What is Picard Day? ‘Star Trek’ fans make it so on June 16

Submit on Friday, June 16th, 2023 19:14

Here we explain why June 16 has become an annual celebration of Jean-Luc Picard, legendary commanding officer of the USS Enterprise-D.

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Inflatable moon telescope could peer into universe’s Dark Ages

Submit on Friday, June 16th, 2023 17:11

European scientists are developing an inflatable radio telescope concept that could do groundbreaking science on the moon.

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When Johnny met Sally: ‘The first woman in space’ and a Skylab strip

Submit on Friday, June 16th, 2023 17:11

Three spaceflight anniversaries have a nexus of sorts, in a comic strip that ran in newspapers over 20 years ago. It all comes down to the imagination and knowledge (or lack thereof) of Johnny Hart.

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Virgin Galactic will launch its 1st commercial spaceflight on June 27

Submit on Friday, June 16th, 2023 05:12

Virgin Galactic plans to launch its first commercial spaceflight on June 27, with the second following shortly thereafter in early August.

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The moon and Mercury meet in the bright red ‘eye of the bull’ early Friday morning

Submit on Friday, June 16th, 2023 03:11

The moon and Mercury will come close to the red supergiant star Aldebaran, the brightest star of Taurus the bull, in the early morning sky on Friday (June 16).

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‘Weird’ game of cosmic tug-of-war in the Tarantula Nebula weaves up new stars

Submit on Friday, June 16th, 2023 03:11

Astronomers have observed the Tarantula Nebula at the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud, finding that powerful magnetic fields ensure its survival and regulate star birth.

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