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March 19, 2024
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Space.com

Condor Array Telescope confirms Chinese astrology records of ‘new star’ spotted in 77 BCE

The Condor Array has revealed a stunning look at a distant dwarf nova — a scene that offers astronomers a new, very-low-brightness view of the universe to marvel over.

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Space.com

Full Worm Moon brings 1st lunar eclipse of 2024 next week. Here’s how to see it

Two weeks before the total solar eclipse, during the overnight hours of March 24 – 25, it will be the moon’s turn to undergo an eclipse. Comments (0). a white pink moon hangs above mid center, bisected by a thin green line. An illustration of the moon …

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Space.com

3D map of over 1 million black holes traces where the universe’s dark matter lies

The map, assembled with data from the Gaia spacecraft, shows how the spread of dark matter across space matches that described by the Cosmic Microwave Background. Comments (0). a swirling cluster of tiny orange masses grouped in two blobs.

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Space.com

How to view solar eclipse 2024 with items from around the home

Jump to: Online and television broadcasts; Projectors you can find around the house; Pinhole viewer; Mirror projection. As we get closer to the time …

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CNN

Stellar explosion will create a ‘new star’ in the night sky

The expected brightening event, known as a nova, will occur in the Milky Way’s Corona Borealis, or Northern Crown constellation, which is located between the Boötes and Hercules constellations. While a supernova is the …

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Phys.Org

Cracking the quantum code: Simulations track entangled quarks

To take it one step further, Kharzeev and his colleagues wanted to see if entanglement persists in jets of secondary particles—cascades of particles produced by the fragmentation of supposedly entangled particles emitted from high energy particle …

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www.scientificamerican.com

‘Interstellar’ Meteor Signal May Have Been a Truck—So What Was Collected from the Ocean Floor?

Avi Loeb, a Harvard University astrophysicist, displays a small vial of material recovered from the floor of the Pacific Ocean. The material, Loeb says, includes fragments of a meteorite that he claims came from another star system—and perhaps even from an …

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Space.com

SpaceX launching 22 Starlink satellites from California tonight

SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit tonight (March 18). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off tonight from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base during a nearly …

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Space.com

Astrobotic readies next lunar lander following failed Peregrine moon mission

Despite the failure of the first U.S. commercial lunar lander to ever operate in space, Astrobotic Technology is pressing forward on its next moon mission, still on the calendar for launch before year’s end. The build-up of hardware for the Astrobotic …

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USA TODAY

Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles from home and broken. Here’s how NASA is trying to fix it.

A scrambled computer signal may be the key that helps NASA engineers resume data transmission from the distant Voyager 1, a spacecraft that was launched in 1977 and now, 15 billion miles from home, is the farthest a human-made object has traveled from …

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