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Astro-tourism – chasing eclipses, meteor showers and elusive dark skies from Earth
With two eclipses and several meteor showers coming up, an astronomy professor shares travel tips for viewing astronomical phenomena.
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Buck full supermoon illuminates skies around the world – video
The first supermoon of 2023 is named after the antlers of male deers which are growing at this time of year
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NASA makes contact with Mars helicopter after long silence | Digital Trends
NASA has restored contact with its Mars helicopter after 63 days of silence. The communications dropout, however, wasn't unexpected.
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Gravitational-wave background of the Universe
International consortium provides evidence of long gravitational waves, detected through a 15-year pulsar study.
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July supermoon: When and how to see the buck moon
The buck moon will rise on Monday, July 3. It will be the first supermoon of the year, appearing brighter and slightly bigger than any other full moon in 2023 so far.
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For first time ever, scientists "hear" gravitational waves rippling through the universe
"We're starting to open up this new window on the universe," one astrophysicist said.
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Four Volunteers Have Locked Themselves in a Simulated Martian Habitat for a Year
On Sunday, four researchers donned black jumpsuits and entered into a red world where they will spend a year living and working in a simulated Martian environment. NASA’s CHAPEA habitat, or Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, welcomed its volunteer guests this week, who are set to spend 378 days in the enclosed, Mars-like world to help the space agency prepare for future missions to the Red Planet.
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NASA to develop oxygen, water on the moon within the next decade
NASA is looking to develop resources on the moon that initially include oxygen and water, and eventually may expand to iron and rare earths, and has already taken steps toward excavating moon soil in 2032, a scientist said on Wednesday.
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SpaceX veteran Tom Mueller targets space service economy with tug business
Though SpaceX founder Elon Musk most often commands headline, the story of the private space startup hinges on a collection of key early figures. One is Tom Mueller, the famed space propulsion expert who ran development of SpaceX’s rocket engines and helped crack the code on reusability, the concept SpaceX has pioneered that has dramatically driven launch costs lower.
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Why do some people get rashes in space? There's a clue in astronaut blood
A new study of astronaut blood finds that space travel reduces the expression of 100 genes related to the immune system.
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NASA is recycling 98 percent of astronaut pee and sweat on the ISS into drinkable water | Engadget
This week, NASA revealed that the International Space Station’s Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) is recycling 98 percent of all water astronauts bring aboard the station..
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‘It’s not like science fiction any more’: Nasa aiming to make spaceships talk
Exclusive: Researcher Dr Larissa Suzuki tells how Nasa is developing a ChatGPT-style interface
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Eight teams of hackers will compete to breach U.S. satellite in space
Protecting satellites from hacks is becoming more important as industries from agriculture to banking and insurance rely on space-based capabilities.
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Aliens might be using a nearby supernova to get our attention, new study suggests
SN 2023ixf is the closest supernova to Earth in more than a decade — and the perfect excuse for intelligent aliens to get our attention, new SETI research suggests.
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In a first, JWST detected starlight from distant galaxies with quasars
Until JWST’s sharp infrared eyes came along, it wasn’t possible to see the galaxies hosting extremely bright supermassive black holes called quasars.
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Watch live as two Russian cosmonauts conduct spacewalk
Though we all have differences, there’s one commonality that has prevailed for all of humanity: we are all floating on a rock, flying through outer space at over a million miles an hour. Thanks to the rapid advancement of technology in the past century, we can observe much more of the universe than we ever thought possible.
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We could see the glint off giant cities on alien worlds, suggests paper
How large would an extraterrestrial city have to be for current telescopes to see it? Would it need to be a planet-sized metropolis like Star Wars' Coruscant? Or could we see an alien equivalent of Earth's own largest urban areas, like New York City or Tokyo?
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We Live in the Rarest Type of Planetary System
A planetary system is shaped at the boundary of order and chaos. It starts out as a molecular cloud—a big, cold clump of mostly hydrogen gas that can collapse to make stars. As central stars form, the remainder of the cloud flattens into a whirling protoplanetary disk that weaves together worlds from turbulent swirls of gas, ice and dust. From there larger-scale chaos can ensue as bigger planets push smaller ones around.
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Missing Stars Puzzle Astronomers: Could Intelligent Life Be the Cause?
Over a period of 70 years, thousands of stars have vanished from the sky; Which prompted a team of astronomers to shed light on this phenomenon .. and perhaps a (very weak) hope of uncovering traces of intelligent civilizations outside the planet.
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Scientists hope Euclid telescope will reveal mysteries of dark matter
European space probe will capture images that will provide insights about what the universe is made of
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