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âFirst everâ snap emerges of something vaguely resembling our solar system 300 ly away. Weâll take 10 tickets
If I hear about a satellite going down because of this, Iâll try really hard not to read/watch The Andromeda Strain again.
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Fresh astro-underwear, anyone? Orbital shenanigans as Progress freighter has last-minute ISS docking wobble
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Mysterious supernova is blasting far-flung galaxy with flashes of UV light â and astroboffins donât know why
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Weâre not all about rockets, says NASA: Balloon tech is good enough for economical star scanning
NASA wants to lift a 2.5-metre-long, reusable far-infrared telescope into Earthâs stratosphere using a massive high-altitude balloon in 2023 to check out the heavens more economically.
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If you think youâve got problems, pal, spare a thought for these boffins baffled by âoddballâ meteorites
Meteorites discovered strewn across Earth after the 1960s may have broken off the same planetesimal body. Whatâs more, scientists have discovered signs this ancient body had a molten core, which turns some cosmological thinking on its head.
The US Department of Energy has published an RFI for a lunar nuclear power plant.
The RFI specifies a âFission Surface Powerâ unit âproviding uninterrupted electricity output of not less than 10 kilowatts at the interface end of a 1-kilometer cable. The FSP system should provide 120 V (direct current) at the user interface of the end of a 1-kilometer cable.â Working life of ten years at full output is required, as is autonomous operations and the ability to survive âa single credible failure without reducing electric power capacity by more than 50%.â Another requirement is a modular design that can connect to others to create a larger combined power plant.
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Astroboffins map engine of a solar flare: Magnetic mega-fields and Earth-dwarfing blankets of electric current
One of our Sunâs large, recent solar flares was formed from the release of 10 to 100 billion trillion joules per second of magnetic energy through gigantic sheets of near-light-speed electrons, scientists say.
Those sheets of electric current stretched more than 40,000 kilometres across, or more than three times the diameter of the Earth, and sat at the base of the familiar loops of plasma seen bursting from our nearest star. This is according to a paper published in Nature Astronomy on Monday.
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Once considered lost, ESA and NASAâs SOHO came back from the brink of death to work even better than it did before
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What goes up, Musk come down⌠and up and down and up and down: NASA details followup Dragon pod trips to orbiting station
Ahead of a Dragon capsule bringing home a pair of astronauts from the International Space Station this weekend, NASA shared more details of followup crewed missions to and from the orbiting science lab using the SpaceX pod.
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911, I wanna report a robbery. Hundreds of thousands of stars stolen from a cluster. I think it was the Milky Way
The Milky Way galaxy ripped apart an ancient star cluster born in the early universe and stole its suns two billion years ago, according to a study published in Nature on Wednesday.
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And itâs off! NASA launches nuke-powered, laser-shooting, tank Perseverance to Mars to search for signs of life
Perseverance, the heaviest and most complex Martian rover yet, is on its way to the Red Planet aboard an Atlas V rocket that blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday.
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