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science / space
Saturn's moons
Distance to Saturn centre (km) Diameter (km) Orbit period (Earth days) Discovered by 133 583 Mark R. Showalter. Voyager 2, 1990 137 670 27 x 37 R. Terrile....
esa.int
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space
Early cosmic explosions may have filled the young universe with water
Young supernovas could have spread water out into the cosmos, causing planet formations earlier than originally thought....
zmescience.com
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space
Astronaut’s stunning Earth photo looks like ‘arteries in your retina’
NASA astronaut Don Pettit has captured another remarkable shot, this one showing the Betsiboka River estuary in Madagascar. “Betsiboka river in...
digitaltrends.com
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science / space
Scientists discover exoplanet with supersonic winds — the fastest in the known universe
With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own system," scientists...
space.com
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space
Review Update: Sony’s a9 III Firmware Brings Several Quality-of-Life Changes for Photographers
Recently, Sony announced the release of firmware version 3.0 for the Sony a9 III, bringing with it a number of quality-of-life changes. Most of the...
thephoblographer.com
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space
Notes of concern: ‘chorus waves’ found by China-led study sound alarms for space travel
Peculiar electromagnetic bursts of energy known as “chorus waves” have been detected far from our planet for the first time by a China-led team of...
scmp.com
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space
Hubble snaps another gorgeous image of the Tarantula Nebula
This gorgeous new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a bustling nearby star forming region called the Tarantula Nebula. Given its name due...
digitaltrends.com
@ 30+ days ago
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space
BYD overtakes Toyota, Tesla as Singapore’s top car brand in 2024; Singapore’s favourite Chinese New Year traditions, revealed: Singapore live news
We feature a curated selection of some of the biggest, most important, and fascinating news that’s making waves online Hello to all our readers,...
yahoo.com
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space
Volcanic cones on Mars tell a tale of ice and fire
"Even the largest floods we modeled couldn't reach far enough to explain all the rootless cones we see." New data is challenging what scientists...
space.com
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health / science / space
How a popular model of cosmic life and intelligence got it wrong
Intelligence on Earth did not appear until almost 4.5 billion years after the planet formed. On the other hand, the Sun is slowly heating up and...
bigthink.com
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space
The auroras are back. See which states could have the best views.
The aurora borealis is back and is expected to be on display through the weekend. The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration has predicted the states...
usatoday.com
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space
Chinese Scientists Have Developed a Powerful New Microwave Weapon: A Converged Energy Beam
China’s military says it tested a weapon much like the Death Star laser that could destroy a satellite. China has successfully tested a real-life...
popularmechanics.com
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space
A Marsquake Reveals Why Mars has Two Very Different Hemispheres
Even with all we’ve learned about Mars in recent decades, the planet is still mysterious. Most of the mystery revolves around life and whether...
universetoday.com
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travel / space
Aurora Alert: Solar Storms Promise Dazzling Northern Lights Display Across America Tonight
The night sky is preparing for an extraordinary performance as solar activity ramps up, promising a potential celestial light show that could...
theworldinmypocket.co.uk
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science / space
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy....
theconversation.com
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space / science
Chemical laws
The job of a chemist is not particularly fancy. Before I switched to the philosophy of chemistry, I spent many hours in a lab mixing...
aeon.co
@ 30+ days ago
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space
Good FLYING Reads: Waiting for Spaceships
I have been a space enthusiast since early childhood. Dad was an aerospace engineer, and I have it on good authority that there was a...
flyingmag.com
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space
NASA Invites Media to Expedition 71 Crew Visit at Marshall - NASA
From left, NASA astronauts, Tracy C. Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps, who served as part of Expedition 71, will discuss their...
nasa.gov
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science / space
Scientists still don't know what's living inside this massive Mexican sinkhole
The world's deepest marine sinkhole is at least 420m deep but remains a mystery to scientists. The world’s deepest blue hole (marine sinkhole) lies...
sciencefocus.com
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space
How engineers are creating oxygen for future moon missions from material found on the moon
In groundbreaking experiments, carbothermal reduction fuels new possibilities for sustaining life and fueling spacecraft far from Earth. Space engineers now know how to make oxygen...
fastcompany.com
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science / space
Astronomers discover unusual radio signals from 'dead' galaxy
(TNND) — Astronomers have discovered fast-repeating radio signals coming from a distant "dead" galaxy. This is an unusual find since "dead" galaxies...
komonews.com
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space
Could Ocean Worlds Support Life?
There might be a type of exoplanet without dry land. They’re called “Hycean” worlds, a portmanteau of ‘hydrogen’ and ‘ocean.’ They’re mostly or...
universetoday.com
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science / space
Chinese rocket booster falls to Earth, explodes near home (video)
It's the latest in a long line of close calls involving China's Long March rockets. China successfully launched a classified satellite on Thursday...
space.com
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space
NASA and Blue Abyss ink 10-year partnership
Blue Abyss, the U.K.-based company that wants to train commercial astronauts at a proposed facility in Brook Park, has entered into a new...
axios.com
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space
Green hydrogen project threatens pristine Paranal skies in Chile
The Milky War arches overhead in this panoramic view of the dark sky above ESO's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. Credit:...
astronomy.com
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space
The Year 2025: How Emerging Tech Is Changing The Earth For Good
Carlos M. Meléndez is Vice President of Operations of Maxar Intelligence, Puerto Rico, a world-leading geospatial intelligence firm. Artificial intelligence (AI) will continue to...
forbes.com
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space
Microgravity in space may cause cancer − but on Earth, mimicking weightlessness could help researchers develop treatments
Cells function differently under low gravity conditions. Rather than send lab samples to space, researchers are developing Earth-bound tools to more...
theconversation.com
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space
Comets Are Cool
posted Jan 24 @ 11:33 AM by Jason Kottke · gift link From astronomer Yuri Beletsky, a photo of Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) arching over ESO’s Paranal...
kottke.org
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space
NASA Invites Media to Second Intuitive Machines Launch to Moon - NASA
Caption: As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Intuitive Machines’ second delivery to the Moon...
nasa.gov
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space
A cosmic ‘Platypus’ might link two astronomical mysteries
A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be...
sciencenews.org
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space
The 1st monster black hole ever imaged has messy eating habits
"These observations provide a more complete picture of the black hole's environment and its dynamics." It may have been the first black hole imaged by...
space.com
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space
Diverse and highly differentiated lava suite in Jezero crater, Mars: Constraints on intracrustal magmatism revealed by Mars 2020 PIXL
The Jezero crater floor features a suite of related, iron-rich lavas that were examined and sampled by the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance, and whose...
science.org
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space / travel
Universal Orlando opens space-themed Stella Nova Resort by Epic Universe theme park
Space- themed Stella Nova Resort at Universal Orlando is an hour from NASA, Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral. Want to stay in an epic...
usatoday.com
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space
Nature Astronomy - Galactic fireworks from cosmic dawn
Comment & Opinion Books & Arts Research Highlights News & Views Research Briefings...
nature.com
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space
Ask Ethan: How are the heaviest elements of all made?
Across the Universe, in all directions, there’s practically nowhere we can look that isn’t filled with some sort of matter: stars, galaxies, dust,...
bigthink.com
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space
Welcome Super-Venus? New Class Of Planets Has Been Proposed
Exoplanet Enaiposha might not be what astronomers have thought for the last 15 years...
iflscience.com
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science / space
LI astrophotographers capture deep space in living color
Ptolemy, the first century Greek astronomer and mathematician, made his observations of the night skies with the naked eye. In 1609, the Italian...
newsday.com
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space
New Moons In 2025: The Darkest Nights For Stargazing This Year
In the celestial dance, there are many wonders: aurora dancing through the atmosphere, meteors streaking across the sky, eclipses that realign your understanding of the...
forbes.com
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space
Total lunar eclipse September 2025: When and where to see the 'Blood Moon' lunar eclipse
The second total lunar eclipse of 2025 will be visible from Asia and western Australia on Sept. 7-8, 2025. On the night of Sept. 7-8, 2025, a total...
space.com
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space
Scientists Just Solved the Mystery Behind This Strange Celestial Object
Slow pulsars, it turns out, are more than meets the eye. An extremely slow pulsar has made scientists “slow down” their assumptions about other pulsars. •...
popularmechanics.com
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space
Space researchers build traffic light system to warn of dangerous solar storms
Researchers have created an improved traffic light system for predicting geomagnetic storms. They are now testing how well these algorithms can...
phys.org
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science / space
A private US spacecraft headed to the moon captures a glorious view of Earth
A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace's...
phys.org
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space
Astronomers Trace Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts to Ancient, Dead Galaxy
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense flashes of radio light that last for only a fraction of a second. They are likely caused by the...
sciencealert.com
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space
Solar Is Vital To Decarbonization – So Why Stifle Its Growth?
By NICHOLAS THOMPSON Los Alamos Recently the rule which governs rooftop solar (E-5) was updated. There were two significant changes that drastically...
ladailypost.com
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science / space
Earth's Magnetic North Pole Is Shifting Toward Siberia and Raising Questions About Unusual Movement
For decades, Earth’s magnetic north pole has been slowly drifting across the Arctic, but recent shifts in its path have caught the attention of...
smithsonianmag.com
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science / space
This ‘Artificial Sun’ Just Smashed Its Own Nuclear Fusion Record.
The EAST reactor successfully contained plasma for over 17 minutes—more than double its previous time . The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak in Heifei, China, a testbed...
popularmechanics.com
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science / space / learning
5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know
Our physics expert picks his top-five equations, plus a scheme to supply US power needs with a bucket of baseballs. Thanks, Einstein! All the tech...
wired.com
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science / space
Could the Carrington Event happen again?
It happened in 1859. Today, it would be catastrophic. On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859, the sky suddenly lit up. But it...
popsci.com
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space
A Gas Giant 500 Light-Years Away Has the Fastest Winds Ever Recorded: A Staggering 33,000 km/h
The fastest planetary winds ever found are tearing across a distant gas giant....
zmescience.com
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space
‘The worst nightmare’: Homeowner claims solar panels don’t work
An Osceola County homeowner claims she’s paying thousands of dollars for a home solar system that doesn’t always work. This is not the...
wftv.com
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