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Space.com

A photographer recently snapped an incredibly detailed photo of gigantic, ghostly plasma loops towering above the sun’s fiery surface after a powerful solar flare exploded from the sun. Comments (0). Faint loops of plasma on the sun.

Space.com

‘Super Heavy boosters for the next three flights, with a fourth ready to stack, in the Starbase Megabay.’ Comments (0). photo looking up at four huge stainless-steel cylinders inside an open-air high. SpaceX shared this photo of four Super Heavy …

Space.com

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already proven itself adept at peering into the past by imaging objects at tremendous distances, but a new breakthrough may have seen the powerful instrument act almost like a scientific crystal ball, …

Smithsonian

To test their hypothesis that the perforated object was a tool, researchers used a replica to create a 16-foot-long rope from cattail reeds. Christian Thorsberg. February 2, 2024 4:35 p.m. …

Scientific American

This path moves in the opposite direction of the sun’s apparent trek over Earth each day. But during an eclipse, the motion of the moon’s shadow—not the sun—is what matters. Earth rotates from west to east, says Michelle Nichols, director of public …

WRAL.com

A former University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill student, and now a NASA astronaut, Zena Cardman, is set to embark on her first spaceflight as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Mission. Scheduled for launch no earlier than August, Cardman will join three …

Livemint

The German eROSITA Consortium (eROSITA-DE) recently made public the first six months of the SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey (eRASS1) data.

Science

The ocean’s mix of plankton, algae, and bacteria absorbs vast amounts of carbon dioxide while producing 50% of Earth’s oxygen. But for decades, Earth-observing satellites could not tease apart the many species making up the green goop.

Aviation Week

HOUSTON—Axiom Space’s first all-European private astronaut mission crew sent to the International Space Station was preparing to end a 14-day stay on the ISS on Feb. 2 with a weekend undocking and splashdown off the Florida coast, weather permitting.

National Post

If, as the saying goes, all economic news is bad, then all astronomical news is, in a similar way, slightly exaggerated for dramatic effect. So when headlines rolled out across the planet Earth this week that its only natural satellite was “SHRINKING,” …