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July 31, 2023
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Space.com

Asteroid Bennu proved a trickster for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid explorer, rewriting everything scientists had thought about space rocks. Comments (0). Queen guitarist Brian May performing. Queen legend Brian May cooperated with scientists behind …

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Space.com

The European Space Agency’s ambitious Euclid space telescope is on its way to decoding the secrets of dark matter and dark energy. Comments (0). On the left, a black and white image showing tons of glimmering spots representing stars.

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Space.com

The full moon on Aug. 1 is the second of four supermoons in the summer of 2023, with the next, the Full Blue Moon, falling on Aug. 30. An orange full moon rises behind a thin cloud, against a dark blue sky,. From New York City, the Sturgeon supermoon …

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Space.com

“Stars experiencing this enhanced magnetism are likely going to be battering their planets with high-energy radiation.” Comments (0). An illustration shows a small star bursting with activity, including sunspots and flares caused by magnetic fields.

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CNN

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an unexpected observation of a nearby planet that’s having its atmosphere blasted away by energetic outbursts from its star. It’s a dramatic change from the last time Hubble checked up on the planetary system and saw …

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The Washington Post

We’ll have two full moons, the year’s best meteor shower, and, although we will lose sight of two planets, two more swing into view. Twice in a month, …

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Space.com

‘It’s really the first bulletproof evidence that much of the Greenland ice sheet vanished when it got warm.’ Comments (0). close up of a glacier with melting water running into the water below. other cracked. Greeland’s ice sheet is under pressure from …

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Scientific American

When you look up into the night sky at a big, bright star, the familiar “twinkling” you see comes from the star’s light wriggling its way through Earth’s turbulent atmosphere. But if you could leap into hyperspace and visit that star directly, …

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

A development motor based on the second-stage solid rocket motor design for NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) undergoes testing March 29, at Northrop Grumman’s facility in Elkton, Maryland. An important part of the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign, the …

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Phys.Org

In their study, reported in Cell Host & Microbe, Jacqueline Maasch, Marcelo Torres, Marcelo Melo and Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez used an AI application to bring back extinct molecules for testing against modern bacteria.

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