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Watch 2 NASA astronauts repair X-ray telescope on ISS during a spacewalk today

Submit on Thursday, January 16th, 2025 12:11

NASA’s Nick Hague and Suni Williams will service the X-ray telescope attached to the ISS during a 6.5-hour-long spacewalk today (Jan. 16). Watch it live.

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Space Mountain at 50: Five nods to NASA from the Walt Disney World ride

Submit on Thursday, January 16th, 2025 04:11

The ride today bears little resemblance to actual spaceflight. But in the 50 years Space Mountain has been running, there have been and still are several nods to NASA.

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The 7 best total solar eclipses of the next 10 years

Submit on Thursday, January 16th, 2025 03:11

We explore seven of the best solar eclipses to look out for over the next 10 years.

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Battlestar Galactica at 20: the show that reinvented space opera

Submit on Thursday, January 16th, 2025 03:11

How a kitsch “Star Wars” cash-in spawned a bona fide sci-fi classic. So say we all!

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Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as a violent ‘pale blue dot’ (image)

Submit on Thursday, January 16th, 2025 02:11

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 million light-years away from Earth.

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James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: ‘This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem’

Submit on Thursday, January 16th, 2025 00:11

The James Webb Space Telescope’s ancient “little red dot” galaxies have been seen as a sign of “broken cosmology.” Feeding supermassive black holes may have come to the rescue.

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Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping

Submit on Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 23:11

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 years of mapping the Milky Way.

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Uncanny ‘Alien: Romulus’ Ian Holm CGI fixed for home release as director ‘wasn’t 100 percent happy’

Submit on Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 23:11

Director Fede Alvarez spoke to Empire about fixing the controversial CGI of Rook in Alien: Romulus.

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