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SpaceX buys parachute manufacturer Pioneer Aerospace

Submit on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 04:11

SpaceX has acquired Pioneer Aerospace, a company that provided components for Dragon spacecraft parachutes before filing for bankruptcy.

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James Webb Space Telescope gazes into ‘The Brick,’ a dark nebula near the Milky Way’s heart

Submit on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 03:11

A dark nebula, also known as “The Brick,” was imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Historic magnetic storms help scientists learn what to expect when one hits

Submit on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 02:11

Magnetic storms can create amazing auroras, but they also have the capacity to impact our power grid.

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The Predator returns in Marvel Comics’ ‘The Last Hunt’ miniseries

Submit on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 01:11

The galaxy’s most notorious alien bounty hunter returns in Marvel Comics’ “Predator: The Last Hunt #1” coming in February 2024.

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory will track orphan stars to reveal a cosmic ‘fossil record’

Submit on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 00:12

The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory will help astronomers track stars ripped from their galaxies, revealing a cosmic fossil record to track the evolution of galactic clusters.

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Mighty morphin’ Centaur rings — a distant icy object’s rings are transforming

Submit on Monday, December 4th, 2023 23:11

What is causing the structure of the dust to evolve, and where exactly the dust comes from, is still a mystery.

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The elusive origins of long gamma-ray bursts may finally be revealed

Submit on Monday, December 4th, 2023 22:11

New research helps resolve the mystery surrounding strange long gamma-ray bursts, suggesting these blasts of high-energy radiation emerge from collisions of neutron stars that birth black holes.

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Space mysteries: Why are there no gas moons?

Submit on Monday, December 4th, 2023 21:11

In our solar system we have rocky moons, ocean moons and frozen-ice moons, but there are no gas moons. Are we just unlucky not to have any gas moons, or are there physical reasons why they cannot exist?

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