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Upcoming solar maximum may help solve the sun’s gamma-ray puzzle

Submit on Thursday, February 8th, 2024 04:11

The upcoming solar maximum may help scientists solve the puzzle of why the sun’s poles emitted ten times more high-energy radiation than expected during the last peak in activity.

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Surprise! Baby exoplanets might look like Smarties candies rather than spheres

Submit on Thursday, February 8th, 2024 03:11

Infant exoplanets may not be spherical as astronomers have always assumed. Instead, they may be oblate spheroids, like the ‘Smarties’ candy found in Europe.

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New film ‘Spacewoman’ to celebrate NASA’s Eileen Collins, 1st woman space commander and pilot

Submit on Thursday, February 8th, 2024 02:11

NASA astronaut Eileen Collins will be featured in “Spacewoman”, a documentary coming in 2025 about the first female space commander and pilot.

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Here’s what it’s like taking a VR spacewalk with the Canadian Space Agency

Submit on Thursday, February 8th, 2024 01:11

Moon robotics will move around astronauts and equipment to get ready for lunar landings. But first, comes the simulation of Canadarm3 to make sure everything will fit.

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Dark matter could be gently wobbling space-time around us — and scientists may finally know how to detect it

Submit on Thursday, February 8th, 2024 00:11

A new paper suggests we may finally be able to uncover the identity of dark matter using the same technology that detects ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves.

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Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ moon Mimas may have an ocean scientists never believed could exist

Submit on Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 23:11

Astronomers have made a shock discovery that Saturn’s moon Mimas seems to have a liquid ocean beneath its surface, potentially redefining our search for life on alien moons.

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Big, dead European satellite will crash back to Earth this month

Submit on Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 21:11

The European Space Agency’s defunct ERS-2 spacecraft will fall into Earth’s atmosphere in a week or so, in a death dive that its handlers will monitor carefully.

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Humans on Mars could conduct far better science than any machine

Submit on Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 20:11

NASA’s moon-to-Mars strategy identifies science as one of three pillars upon which the agency’s quest for a sustained human presence throughout the solar system is built.

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