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Hubble telescope spies a sparkling ‘cosmic fossil’ 3 million light-years away (image)

Submit on Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 05:11

Located about 3 million light-years from Earth, the Tucana Dwarf galaxy sits at the far edge of the Local Group of galaxies and is home to aging stars that may hold clues from the early universe.

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Thruster issues delay BepiColombo probe’s Mercury arrival until November 2026

Submit on Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 04:11

A thruster glitch suffered this past April will delay the BepiColombo mission’s arrival at Mercury by nearly a year, to November 2026.

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Scientists make lab-grown black hole jets

Submit on Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 03:12

By using protons to probe how a magnetic field responds to an expanding plasma, experimenters have replicated the particle jets spewed out by active black holes.

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Watch Europe’s Vega rocket launch its final mission tonight

Submit on Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 02:11

Europe’s Vega small-satellite launcher is scheduled to fly its final mission tonight (Sept. 3), and you can watch the swan song live.

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‘It basically lifts the skies up.’ NASA discovers Earth’s electrical field at last after 60-year search

Submit on Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 02:11

A long-sought invisible electrical field wrapped around Earth has been detected more than half a century after it was first predicted to exist.

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Shelved NASA spacecraft could spy on asteroid Apophis before 2029 Earth flyby

Submit on Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 01:11

NASA is considering pulling a pair of shelved spacecraft out of storage to spy on notorious asteroid Apophis ahead of its April 2029 Earth flyby.

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Statue of fallen ‘Teacher-in-Space’ Christa McAuliffe unveiled at NH state house

Submit on Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 00:11

A statue of Christa McAuliffe, NASA’s “Teacher-in-Space” who died on board the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, has been unveiled in New Hampshire, the state where she taught.

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NASA science mission spacecraft are at risk from hackers, but a new law could help protect them

Submit on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024 23:11

NASA missions are some of the most technologically advanced and critically important endeavors but they are at risk from hackers.

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