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February 23, 2024
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Space.com

Our solar system map may need an update — the Kuiper belt could be way bigger

NASA’s New Horizons mission, which encountered Pluto in 2015 is now riding through the deepest depths of the Kuiper Belt, is encountering a cosmic dust storm that hints there may be more going on in the outermost reaches of the solar system than we …

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CNN

Historic Odysseus moon mission marks a milestone in reaching the lunar surface

This mission is of key interest to Intuitive Machines’ primary customer, NASA, which is seeking to scout the moon using robotic explorers developed by private contractors before sending astronauts there later this decade through its Artemis program.

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CNN

Artist Jeff Koons makes history with a sculpture on the moon

With the lunar touchdown of the Odysseus spacecraft on Thursday, the world’s most expensive living artist has now earned a new, space-age superlative: His creation is now the first “authorized” work of art on the moon. Exchanging the gallery space for …

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‘Quantum gravity’ could help unite quantum mechanics with general relativity at last

“By understanding quantum gravity, we could solve some of the mysteries of our universe — like how it began, what happens inside black holes, or uniting all forces into one big theory.” A illustration shows a quantum experiment investigating gravity on …

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3 tiny new moons found around Uranus and Neptune — and one is exceptionally tiny

Two will be named after sea gods and nymphs and the other will be named for a Shakespearean character. a black and white, blurry image with lots of white streaks. There is a. The discovery image of the new Uranian moon S/2023 U1 using the Magellan …

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The Washington Post

The tense final moments as Intuitive Machines pulled off a moon landing

Mission controllers discovered that a major navigation system had failed shortly before the landing was to take place. Fortunately, a replacement was at hand. … The spacecraft had traveled from Earth to the moon, hitting the precise spot where lunar …

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Space.com

Sun erupts with most powerful solar flare since 2017 amid explosive week (video)

Powerful solar flares can affect communications and power infrastructure on Earth when accompanied by CMEs. This can happen when solar plasma strikes Earth’s protective magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere. Though the previous two solar flares seemed to be …

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CNN

This weekend’s full moon will be a ‘micromoon.’ Here’s what that means

Here, the snow moon looms in the sky over Abruzzo, Italy, in February 2022. Lorenzo Di Cola/NurPhoto/Getty Images. Sign up for CNN’s …

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The Washington Post

Roger Guillemin, Nobel-winning physician with fierce rivalry, dies at 100

Roger Guillemin, a Nobel Prize-winning physician whose work on hormones produced by the brain helped lead to the development of the birth control pill and treatments for prostate and other cancers, and who engaged for decades in a famously scathing but …

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Scientific American

JWST Is Tracking Down the Cosmic Origins of Earth’s Water

An image of a protoplanetary disk captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Similar observations of such planetary nurseries by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are revealing new details about how water finds its way into …

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