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Shockwaves created by a collision between the galaxies of Stephan’s Quintet and an intruder galaxy are driving strange processes in the intergalactic medium, the tenuous clouds of warm-to-hot hydrogen plasma that exist in the space between galaxies.

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A vintage NASA satellite launched in the 1980s and long-since turned to space junk met a fiery fate late Sunday as it fell back to Earth, NASA said today. The huge Earth observation satellite, called the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS), …

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A massive explosion on the sun unleashed a powerful solar flare from a new sunspot on Monday (Jan. 9), one that is slowly turning to face the Earth. The solar flare erupted at 1:50 p.m. EST (1850 GMT) as a X1.9-class sun storm that caused a temporary, …

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NEWQUAY, U.K. — A giant leap for the U.K. space sector is set to take place tonight, Monday (Jan. 9), as Virgin Orbit readies for its first-ever launch from Britain, and from Europe. The launch, which could still be hampered by bad weather or technical …

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A robotic SpaceX cargo craft will begin its journey home to Earth on Monday afternoon (Jan. 9), and you can watch the action live. An uncrewed Dragon capsule is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) Monday at 5:05 p.m. EST …

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Something may have gone very wrong for China’s first-ever Mars mission. China launched Tianwen 1 in July 2020 and the mission’s rover, named Zhurong, touched down on the Red Planet in May 2021. The duo explored Mars smoothly until May 2022, …

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Though it won’t be visible to the naked eye during its close approach to the sun, the comet should be observable with binoculars. If C/2022 E3 (ZTF) continues to brighten the way it currently is, it could eventually be possible to spot it in the night sky …

Phys.Org

Stable low-cost organic-based materials could transform X-ray imaging by improving fabrication methods and providing reliable high-resolution imaging results. Now, KAUST researchers have developed a novel approach for designing and building such …

CNN

The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, known as ERBS, was launched in 1984 aboard space shuttle Challenger. Until 2005, data from ERBS helped researchers investigate how Earth absorbed and radiated energy from the Sun, and …

MIT Technology Review

Artemis aims to deliver astronauts back to the lunar surface by 2025, but it’s riding on an old congressional pet project. By. Rebecca Boylearchive page. January 9, 2023. illustration of an astronaut emerging from the hatch of a lunar vehicle.