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March 20, 2024
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Helping build instrument for Japanese Mars mission ‘a favorite time’ for new NASA astronaut (exclusive)

A new NASA astronaut already has a space mission ready for launch, but (spoiler alert!) he won’t be on the rocket. NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, and a large international team, worked on the Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission, which is slated lift …

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Scientists find galaxy supercluster as massive as 26 quadrillion suns

Astronomers have discovered a cavalcade of monster galaxy superclusters, incredibly massive collections of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the universe. The most striking example of these 662 new superclusters is located around 3 billion light …

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Citizen scientists and AI take a cosmic cruise to discover 430000 new galaxies

Citizen scientists and artificial intelligence have come together to discover a staggering 430,000 galaxies scattered across the universe. The massive haul includes 30,000 ring galaxies, which are considered to be the rarest of all possible galaxy …

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Arrokoth the ‘space snowman’ and other Kuiper Belt objects may be packed with ancient ice

A new model of cometary evolution and interiors could help explain the explosive behavior of “ice bomb” comets as they pass close to the sun. Comments (0). A view of a double-headed gray rock with a diagram on the right that. (Main) The “space snowman” …

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The Planetary Society

The asteroid hunter

Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, joins Planetary Radio to share stories from his new book, “The Asteroid Hunter.” Then Bruce Betts, the chief scientist of The Planetary …

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7 things to buy to safely watch and photograph the total solar eclipse

1. Use eye protection · 2.Grafix SafeShot solar viewer · 3. Vaonis Hestia · 4. Celestron EclipSmart 2x Power Viewers · 5. The Solar Projector · 6. Daystar White Light Universal Solar Filters · 7. Lunt SUNocular 8×32 · When is the next solar eclipse?

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China launches satellite to support future moon missions (video)

The spacecraft is what’s known as a relay satellite, meaning it will help pass messages back and forth between Earth and the moon. … China launched a satellite toward the moon this week to help support the country’s lunar ambitions.

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NASA, SpaceX ready to launch 30th cargo mission to ISS on March 21

A skinny white rocket stands surrounded by metal-framed lighting towers. A tall streetlamp. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex-40, ahead of the CRS- …

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Watch Russian Soyuz rocket launch 3 spaceflyers to the ISS on March 21

A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch three people, including one NASA astronaut, toward the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday morning (March 21), and you can watch the action live. The rocket is scheduled to launch the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft …

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The Washington Post

A supervolcano erupted 74000 years ago. Here’s how humans survived it.

In the new study, published in the journal Nature, scientists discovered tiny bits of volcanic glass from Toba buried alongside ancient arrowheads and fossilized remains of animals that were bygone meals, indicating that humans were there before, during …

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