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Space.com

Those who enjoy watching the sky for “shooting stars” will have an opportunity this weekend to observe an old and reliable meteor display: The April Lyrids. These meteors are among the oldest known …

Space.com

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship mission to Jupiter and its icy moons is underway. But after the successful launch of the JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) spacecraft, what’s next for the 1.6 billion euro ($1.77 billion) mission to Jupiter?

Space.com

The Dragon carried up about 6,300 pounds (2,860 kilograms) of supplies on its mission, which is known as CRS-27. (CRS stands for “commercial resupply services.”) The cargo included a variety of hardware, 60 different scientific experiments and some …

CNN

The universe is filled with so many wonders that it’s easy to lose sight of the celestial treasures in our own cosmic backyard. The James Webb Space Telescope recently shared a stunning new image of Cassiopeia A, …

EarthSky

A map from the American Meteor Organization shows the trajectory of a daylight fireball spotted by observers in Maine, USA and New Brunswick, Canada at about 11:50 p.m. EDT (3:50 p.m. UTC) on Saturday, April 8, 2023. The object may have hit Earth, …

Space.com

Skywatchers, set your alarm clocks. Early tomorrow morning (that is, after midnight tonight), the moon and Saturn will make a close approach in the night sky, an event known as an appulse. Of course, the moon and Saturn won’t physically be very close …

The Advocate

After leading an analysis of thousands of gamma-ray bursts, LSU assistant professor Eric Burns said one event was the brightest he, or likely any other person in human history, had ever seen. Gamma-ray burst, or GRB, 221009A sent a pulse of radiation …

The Washington Post

The term riffs off a similar problem in astronomy, in which researchers sometimes struggle to characterize “dark matter” that defies standard scientific rules. Similarly, the mycologists write, their field’s naming rules don’t …

Nature.com

We present a new realization of the time-domain double-slit experiment with photoelectrons, demonstrating that spontaneous radiation from a bunch of relativistic electrons can be used to control the quantum interference of single-particles.

The Weather Channel

During June 14, Akatsuki/UVI images at 365 nm suggest that the discontinuity was propagating simultaneously at the upper and middle clouds (last image in upper row). (Peralta, J. et al. (2023) “Venus cloud discontinuity in 2022,” Astronomy and Astrophysics …