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Does the Sun make noise?
The sun is a singular experience in Earthly life. We see it. We feel it. But we can’t seem to hear it. If we did, would it sound like an explosion? Or a primordial heartbeat? Or just a dull roar, bellowing 93 million miles away? The sun is huge—roughly 100 time s wider than Earth, and it’s especially...
popsci.com - 30+ days ago
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Puffy white dwarfs could shed light on mysterious dark matter. Here's how.
Confirming a long-held theoretical prediction, a survey of 26,000 white dwarfs found that the hotter they are, the more bloated are their outer...
space.com - 30+ days ago
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Need to accurately measure time in space? Use a COMPASSO
Telling time in space is difficult, but it is absolutely critical for applications ranging from testing relativity to navigating down the road....
phys.org - 30+ days ago
science / space
‘The Clock in the Sun’ Review: Get to Know Ol’ Sol
The sun was once personified as a god, a symbol of a perfect cosmos. The occasional detection of dark blemishes was unsettling. On the first page of “The Clock in the Sun,” the astrophysicist Pierre Sokolsky admits that he is “neither a specialist in solar physics and astronomy nor a historian of...
wsj.com - 30+ days ago
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NASA payload aims to probe moon's depths to study heat flow
Earth's nearest neighboring body in the solar system is its moon, yet to date, humans have physically explored just 5% of its surface. It wasn't...
phys.org - 30+ days ago
science / space
Planet parade, happening now, will dazzle skywatchers into 2025
If you love to look for planets glimmering in the night sky, this is a perfect time to do it. A so-called “planet parade,” when multiple planets...
oregonlive.com - 30+ days ago
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Eggnog is out! Here's how astronauts really spend Christmas in space
On 21 December, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 68 hours later, the spacecraft reached the Moon, orbiting...
skyatnightmagazine.com - 30+ days ago
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NASA’s Bigger, Faster New Space Helicopter Will Go Where Rovers Can’t
NASA carried out a record-breaking feat when it flew a man-made craft on the surface of another planet for the first time with the Ingenuity probe....
jalopnik.com - 30+ days ago
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Large Hadron Collider finds 1st evidence of the heaviest antimatter particle yet
Scientists at CERN's ALICE detector are replicating conditions found during the Big Bang, attempting to get to the bottom of how matter came to...
livescience.com - 30+ days ago
science / space
Earth’s clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming
For more than 20 years, NASA instruments in space have tracked a growing imbalance in Earth’s solar energy budget, with more energy entering than...
science.org - 30+ days ago
space
A Binary Star Found Surprisingly Close to the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
Binary stars are common throughout the galaxy. Roughly half the stars in the Milky Way are part of a binary or multiple system, so we would expect to...
universetoday.com - 30+ days ago
space
K2 Space will fly its extra-large satellite for the first time in 2026
K2 Space is betting that the future of space hardware will be big — really big. The startup is building massive spacecraft under the assumption that launch costs will continue to drop as SpaceX’s Starship and other heavy-lift vehicles come online. It looks like the Space Force is taking up their...
techcrunch.com - 30+ days ago
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Ursid Meteor Shower 2024: How and When to Witness the Year’s Final Cosmic Spectacle
As 2024 comes to a close, so does the final celestial show for skywatchers of the year: the Ursid meteor shower. The Ursids will be most active...
thedebrief.org - 30+ days ago
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Day 19 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Beacon in the Clouds
Day 19 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar Day 19 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a beacon in the clouds. This image from the James Webb Space Telescope features a bright H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This nebula, known as N79,...
theatlantic.com - 30+ days ago
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BepiColombo spacecraft flies by Mercury, sees volcanic plain and impact craters
"The moment when we first looked at the MERTIS flyby data and could immediately distinguish impact craters was breathtaking!" BepiColombo just imaged...
space.com - 30+ days ago
science / space
Earth Sitting in 'Supervoid' May Account for Hubble Tension
New research suggests that a troubling disparity in the rate of expansion of the universe, known as the Hubble constant, may arise from the fact...
realclearscience.com - 30+ days ago
space
New Research Suggests Io Doesn't Have a Shallow Ocean of Magma
Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System, with roughly 400 active volcanoes regularly ejecting magma into space....
universetoday.com - 30+ days ago
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Most powerful ever telescope from NASA reveals universe expanding faster than ever - and nobody knows why
The James Webb Telescope – the most powerful telescope NASA has ever made – has confirmed the universe is expanding faster than ever, but scientists...
supercarblondie.com - 30+ days ago
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The Best of Science Friday, 2024
2024 was full of exciting and some time s devastating science stories. It was a big year for heliophysics, with solar storms causing auroras to dazzle...
sciencefriday.com - 30+ days ago
science / space
9 of the Most Remarkable Scientific Discoveries of 2024
Discover the new planets, moons, health advances, and ancient history uncovered in 2024. As the year winds down, we wanted to take a look back at some...
discovermagazine.com - 30+ days ago
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Unveiling the uncharted Milky Way: Completing the galactic stellar map
By peering into the cosmic dance of stars, a team led by researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has unraveled the...
phys.org - 30+ days ago
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All of our hopes and fears for tech in 2025
UNCANNY VALLEY | 37-MINUTE EPISODE To wrap up 2024, this week on Uncanny Valley we talk about the tech products we most fear and love. BY FERNANDA...
wired.com - 30+ days ago
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Yes, scientists can see your holiday lights from space
As the days gets shorter, holiday decorations light up the night. Find out how much brighter upstate New York is in December compared to surrounding...
sunion.com - 30+ days ago
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Astro Brief: An Improbable Exoplanet
TESS uncovers a hot Neptune within a Neptunian desert....
ksmu.org - 30+ days ago
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Meteorites hold the secrets of the universe and a high tech camera in Wales is helping find the ones that crash to Earth
The council-run Oriel Môn museum and arts centre in Llangefn, Wales, normally provides insights into the island of Anglesey’s culture and history,...
digitalcameraworld.com - 30+ days ago
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Exploding stars, unusual activity and black hole collisions. 6 reasons why the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy is amazing
This amazing spiral galaxy is known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy and is located 12 million lightyears from Earth. The image was captured with the...
skyatnightmagazine.com - 30+ days ago
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KRQE Newsfeed: Belen quadruple murder, Taft Middle School update, Warm and dry, Road safety, Astronomy grants
Thursday’s Top Stories Man in custody after firing ‘several hundred rounds of ammunition’ in Rio Rancho • Las Cruces man found guilty of murdering...
krqe.com - 30+ days ago
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Astronaut Captures time lapse of SpaceX Dragon Capsule Undocking From the ISS
It looks like computer-generated imagery, but this spectacular video taken in space shows the departure of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft as seen by...
petapixel.com - 30+ days ago
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Should we treat Mars as a space archaeology museum? This researcher believes so
Mars isn’t just a cold, barren rock. Anthropologists argue that the tracks of rovers and broken probes are archaeological treasures....
zmescience.com - 30+ days ago
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James Webb Space Telescope best images of 2024
This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This nebula, known as N79, is a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionized, captured here by Webb's Mid-InfraRed Instrument...
usatoday.com - 30+ days ago
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All about Point Nemo | Vendée Globe 2024
"48°52.6 South, 123°23.6 West" are the coordinates of Point Nemo. It is really only a theoretical point on the charts but symbolically it so...
vendeeglobe.org - 30+ days ago
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News at a glance: Mars rover’s big ascent, Europa’s ice sheet, and House committee chairs
PLANETARY SCIENCE Mars rover makes it to the top After a 4-month uphill trek on the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance rover reached the top of the Jezero...
science.org - 30+ days ago
science / space
NASA's new images show star clusters that resemble a wreath and a Christmas tree
It's a cosmic Christmas! NASA just released new images of a nearby star cluster that resembles a wreath and another that looks like a Christmas tree. The wreath-like cluster is actually named "NGC 602" and it lies on the outskirts of one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way called Small...
aol.com - 30+ days ago
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ISRO Officially Begins Gaganyaan Launch Campaign 10 Years After Groundbreaking Mission
The launch campaign for first uncrewed Gaganyaan mission G1 has officially begun, ISRO announced on Wednesday. It made the announcement exactly 10 years after the LVM3-X/CARE mission was launched to test a crew module. Launched on December 18, 2014, the mission marked the debut flight of the LVM3-X...
mashable.com - 30+ days ago
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NASA names agency veteran as deputy manager of deep space program
Dec. 19 (UPI) -- NASA has named a space agency veteran as deputy manager of its Gateway program, the administration announced Thursday. That program...
upi.com - 30+ days ago
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What are the Chidambaram Temple Secret and Scientific Facts? - i Share
Chidambaram, a historic town in Tamil Nadu, India, is celebrated for the magnificent shrine dedicated to Lord Shiva in his cosmic dancer form,...
isharethese.com - 30+ days ago
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Martin F. Malarkey, design draftsman for space exploration programs, dies
Martin F. Malarkey Jr., a long time Ellicott City resident who contributed to space exploration program designs, died of cancer Dec. 8 at MedStar...
baltimoresun.com - 30+ days ago
space
Longest days accompany the December solstice
What is a day? You might casually talk about a day as a period of daylight. Or you could measure a day in relationship to the sun or the stars....
earthsky.org - 30+ days ago
space
NASA Details Strategy for Future Human Presence in Low Earth Orbit
The agency is counting on private ventures to expand before the ISS is history. NASA is planning for the future. With the International Space Station...
extremetech.com - 30+ days ago
science / space
The JWST Looked Over the Hubble’s Shoulder and Confirmed that the Universe is Expanding Faster
It’s axiomatic that the Universe is expanding. However, the rate of expansion hasn’t remained the same. It appears that the Universe is expanding...
universetoday.com - 30+ days ago
science / space
How humanity discovered we’re all made of “star stuff”
Each one of us — in a very physical and physiological way — is 13.8 billion years old. This is the age of the Universe. It took our cosmos this long...
bigthink.com - 30+ days ago
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Record-breaking Chinese spacewalk, Xi Jinping in Macau: SCMP daily catch-up
Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China and economy stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider...
scmp.com - 30+ days ago
space
Human settlement of Mars isn’t as far off as you might think
Could humans expand out beyond their homeworld and establish settlements on the planet Mars? The idea of settling the red planet has been around for...
rawstory.com - 30+ days ago
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Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander to study space weather, pesky moon dust using NASA science
NASA is gearing up to fly more science to the surface of the Moon with its next commercial mission on a Firefly Aerospace lunar lander. Firefly...
nypost.com - 30+ days ago
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Facing more delays, NASA astronauts to remain in space until at least March 2025
A long trip to space is about to get even longer. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were originally supposed to spend only about a week aboard the International Space Station, but due to issues with their spaceship, have remained stuck for months. Originally slated to return in...
salon.com - 30+ days ago
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Fraser Cain (@fraser@m.universetoday.com)
Universe Today Mastodon Attached: 1 image The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica is one of the most sensitive instruments ever built,...
universetoday.com - 30+ days ago
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Notes to Gaza’s Beloved Dead
A promise to our dead and (briefly, necessarily, though not consensually) resurrected: I am searching for a form through which my words might be...
atmos.earth - 30+ days ago
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How Jeff Bezos Saved An Estimated $ 1 Billion In Taxes This Year After Moving To Florida
The Amazon founder sold nearly $ 14 billion worth of Amazon stock so far in 2024–more than any other U.S. billionaire. Here’s why he paid $ 1 billion less in taxes by moving to Florida. Billionaire Amazon founder and chairman Jeff Bezos announced his move from the Seattle area to Florida in late 2023...
forbes.com - 30+ days ago
space
China's Quest for Supremacy Moves into Space
Senior Reporter, International Affairs / Investigations China's ambition to be the world's greatest space power is taking it to the Moon, to other...
newsweek.com - 30+ days ago
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Latest delay in astronaut's homecoming eclipses Sunita Williams Day in Needham
Earth is going to have to wait a little longer before astronaut Sunita Williams returns — the spacecraft set to bring her and others back has been...
necn.com - 30+ days ago
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