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Private Peregrine moon lander will now touch down near ‘geologic enigma’

Submit on Saturday, February 4th, 2023 04:11

NASA has redirected the private Peregrine moon lander to a new touchdown site to increase science returns ahead of crewed Artemis missions.

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Watch February’s Full Snow Moon on Sunday (Feb. 5) with this free telescope webcast

Submit on Saturday, February 4th, 2023 03:11

February’s Full Snow Moon rises on Sunday (Feb. 5), and you can watch it shine brightly in the sky from the comfort and warmth of your own home thanks to a free telescope webcast.

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Move over, Saturn: Jupiter is the solar system’s new ‘moon master’

Submit on Saturday, February 4th, 2023 03:11

Jupiter now boasts the largest number of moons orbiting it after scientists discovered another 12 moons, bringing the behemoth’s total up to 92.

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Chinese surveillance balloon in US airspace causes international stir

Submit on Saturday, February 4th, 2023 01:11

China’s foreign ministry confirmed that a high-altitude spy balloon seen flying over the northern United States this week was a Chinese airship, claiming that the vehicle is a weather balloon.

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Miniature sun with simulated gravity could help prepare us for deadly solar storms

Submit on Saturday, February 4th, 2023 00:11

The tiny sun used sound waves to simulate the sun’s swirling mass of plasma

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The bright moon meets up with the Gemini twins tonight (Feb. 3)

Submit on Saturday, February 4th, 2023 00:11

The moon has a date with the bright stellar twins of Gemini, Castor, and Pollux, on Friday night.

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Good Lawd! Mass of lone “dead star” measured for the first time

Submit on Friday, February 3rd, 2023 23:11

Using the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have measured the mass of a lone white dwarf star, LAWD 37, the kind of stellar remnant our sun will leave behind.

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Astronomers discover potential habitable exoplanet only 31 light-years from Earth

Submit on Friday, February 3rd, 2023 22:11

Wolf 1069 b offers a unique opportunity to study a potentially habitable and tidally locked exoplanet.

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