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08 Jun 20:00:07 | Universe Today
To keep the International Space Station in continuous operation until 2030, NASA has ordered five more SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
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08 Jun 20:00:06 | Universe Today
The Universe is full of massive galaxies like ours, but astronomers don’t fully understand how they grew and evolved. They know that the first galaxies formed at least as early as 670 million years after the Big Bang. They know that mergers play a role in the growth of galaxies. Astronomers also know that supermassive …
Continue reading "Hubble Finds a Bunch of Galaxies That Webb Should Check out"
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07 Jun 20:00:13 | Universe Today
On May 23, 2022, the Juno spacecraft made another close pass of Jupiter, with its suite of scientific instruments collecting data and its JunoCam visible light camera snapping photos all the while. This close pass, called a perijove, is the 42nd time the spacecraft has swung past Jupiter since Juno’s arrival in 2016. As soon …
Continue reading "Juno’s Entire 42nd Flight Past Jupiter in One Amazing Mosaic"
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07 Jun 20:00:12 | Universe Today
06 Jun 20:00:08 | Universe Today
We’re about to reach a milestone that many thought we would never reach. After years of wrangling, cost overruns, threats of cancellation, and lobbying by the science community, the James Webb Space Telescope is only weeks away from its first images. The Hubble Space Telescope barely got going before scientists started thinking about the telescope …
Continue reading "First Images From JWST are Coming on July 12th"
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06 Jun 20:00:08 | Universe Today
While the Mars InSight lander is still waiting for a passing dust devil to clean off its solar panels, it appears the Perseverance rover sees dust devils several times a day. A new paper detailing the first 216 days of Perseverance?s mission in Jezero Crater reports how the newest rover on Mars appears to be …
Continue reading "Perseverance is Seeing A LOT of Dust Devils"
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05 Jun 20:00:17 | Universe Today
What do two guys from Ohio, the GAIA mission, a worldwide network of ground-based telescopes, machine learning, and citizen scientists all have to do with each other? Thanks to this interesting combo of people and computers, astronomers now have more than 116,000 new variable stars to study. Until now, they knew of about 46,000 of …
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05 Jun 20:00:16 | Universe Today
A mirror universe model might explain why measurements of Hubble constant disagree.
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04 Jun 20:00:11 | Universe Today
June 2022 offers early risers the chance to trace out the naked eye planets, from Mercury to Saturn.
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04 Jun 20:00:11 | Universe Today
There’s no question that young solar systems are chaotic places. Cascading collisions defined our young Solar System as rocks, boulders, and planetesimals repeatedly collided. A new study based on chunks of asteroids that crashed into Earth puts a timeline to some of that chaos. Astronomers know that asteroids have remained essentially unchanged since their formation …
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