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Live Updates: SpaceX Prepares to Launch Third Starship Flight
March 14, 2024, 7:02 a.m. ETMarch 14, 2024, 7:02 a.m. ETSpaceX’s Starship vehicle is nearly 90 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty and its pedestal.Credit...Chandan Khanna/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesFor Elon Musk, Starship is really a Mars ship. He envisions a fleet of Starships carrying settlers to the red planet in the coming…
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A stargazer’s guide to solar eclipse glasses
People view a total solar eclipse at from the observatory at Rockefeller Center in New York City on Aug. 21, 2017.
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Mars could be driving ‘giant whirlpools’ in the Earth’s deep oceans, new study finds | CNN
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Mars may be around 140 million miles away from Earth, but the red planet is influencing our deep oceans by helping drive “giant whirlpools,” according to new research.
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Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable
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On October 19, 1989, at 12:29 UT, a monstrous X13 class solar flare triggered a geomagnetic storm so strong that auroras lit up the skies in Japan, America, Australia, and even Germany the following day. Had you been flying around!-->!-->…
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Webb’s Historic Discovery: The Farthest Active Supermassive Black Hole Ever Found
Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made groundbreaking discoveries in galaxy GN-z11, which is one of the most distant and luminous galaxies known. They identified a supermassive black hole responsible for the galaxy’s brightness and found a pristine gas clump that may lead to the discovery of the universe’s first stars,…
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Can the woolly mammoth really be resurrected? Scientists take a small step closer | CNN
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A view of a life size woolly mammoth is seen on display at The Box museum in Plymouth, UK.…
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The Comet Strike Theory That Just Won’t Die
Some of Firestone and West’s co-authors did distance themselves from the effort, but other scientists took their places. In 2016, West and several colleagues formed Comet Research Group Inc., which, according to its website, “cooperates with and provides funding for selected impact research scientists around the world.” The organization is a…
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Voyager 1, First Craft in Interstellar Space, May Have Gone Dark
When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, scientists hoped it could do what it was built to do and take up-close images of Jupiter and Saturn. It did that — and much more.Voyager 1 discovered active volcanoes, moons and planetary rings, proving along the way that Earth and all of humanity could be squished into a single pixel in a photograph, a “pale…
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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried
This artist's impression shows one of the Voyager spacecraft moving through the darkness of space.
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How Planets Form: Galactic Winds of Change Captured by Webb Space Telescope
Groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal gas wind dispersal in planet-forming disks, advancing our understanding of planet formation dynamics and disk evolution. (Artist’s impression.) Credit: ESO/M. KornmesserResearchers image for the first time, winds from an old planet-forming disk which is actively dispersing its gas…
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