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SpaceX launching 24 Starlink satellites from Florida today (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX plans to launch 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast today (Nov. 10). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today during a four-hour […]
Hubble captures barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 (Image Credit: Phys.org) This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the spiral galaxy NGC 1672 with a supernova. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. Fox, L. Jenkins, S. Van Dyk, A. Filippenko, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team, D. de Martin (ESA/Hubble), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble) This […]
NASA’s Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets (Image Credit: Space.com) In a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial component onto the Roman Space Telescope. This device, known as the Roman Coronagraph Instrument, is designed […]
Astronomers Discover Zombie Star Spinning at Blistering 716 Times a Second (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely heavy star is releasing bursts of material as powerful as repeating atomic bombs while spinning wildly on its […]
Where do fast radio bursts come from? Astronomers tie mysterious eruptions to massive galaxies (Image Credit: Space.com) Every day, invisible to the human eye, thousands of enigmatic flashes of cosmic energy known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) erupt across the sky, releasing as much energy in milliseconds as the sun does in […]
China’s space agency brought the 1st lunar far side samples to Earth this year — here’s what’s next (Image Credit: Space.com) China’s space agency has opened up a first round of applications for researchers to borrow its Chang’e 6 lunar far side samples. Chang’e 6 launched in May this year. The complex, […]
Australian company Gilmour Space gets country’s 1st orbital launch license (Image Credit: Space.com) Australia is poised to be the next country to take the giant leap into orbit. Aussie-based company Gilmour Space received the country’s first orbital launch license this week, as it prepares for the first test flight of its Eris […]
The Curious Case of Iconic Star Vega’s Missing Planets (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) In 1984, astronomers spotted a rotating platter of gas and dust around the nearby star Vega, providing them with their first look at the stuff from which planets are born. Now, a closer look at that same star has revealed […]
Giant telescope’s own powerful radiation may have contributed to collapse (Image Credit: Mashable) Powerful electromagnetic radiation from an enormous radio telescope in Puerto Rico may have fast-tracked structural damage that led to the instrument’s collapse in 2020, a new report says. For over a half-century, the Arecibo Observatory‘s 1,000-foot-wide telescope, a giant […]
An object struck a satellite in Earth’s orbit, leaving a hole (Image Credit: Mashable) An unknown small object, traveling thousands of miles per hour, punctured a satellite in Earth‘s orbit. The satellite company NanoAvionics released images online showing the damage to its MP42 satellite, launched in 2022 and designed to host several […]
