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⋅ April 9, 2024
NEWS
Space.com

‘Heavy’ history: ULA launches final Delta rocket after 64 years (video, photos)
Space.com
After six decades of launches, the liftoff of the last-ever Delta rocket on Tuesday (April 9) brought with it a change in the way the U.S. sends satellites, interplanetary probes and spacecraft into Earth orbit. United Launch Alliance (ULA) ignited its …
The Washington Post

Peter Higgs, Nobel-winning physicist on a subatomic hunt, dies at 94
The Washington Post
Peter Higgs, a British physicist and Nobel Prize-winner whose musings on the origins of mass launched a nearly five-decade, multibillion-dollar search for a subatomic particle — later known as the Higgs boson — that was said to hold the keys to …
Space.com

I just proposed to my fiancée under the diamond ring of the 2024 total solar eclipse. (She said ‘Yes!’)
Space.com
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — I worked out the perfect plan to propose to my partner during the April 8 solar eclipse, and the clouds somehow stayed away. I won’t bury the lede. She said yes. I spent the last year planning my proposal to coincide with the 2024 …
BBC News

Total solar eclipse: Continent watches in wonder during once-in-a-lifetime event
BBC News
Across Mexico, the US and Canada, inside a ribbon of land stretching 155 miles wide but more than 4,000 miles long, tens of millions of people craned their necks, tilted their heads to the sky and watched in wonder as the day turned to night.
CNN

UK Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs dies age 94
CNN
The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at the CERN research centre near Geneva was widely hailed as the biggest advance in knowledge about the cosmos for over 30 years, and pointed physics towards ideas that were once science fiction.
CNN

Here’s what the eclipse looked like from the International Space Station
CNN
The Moon’s shadow, or umbra, on Earth was visible from the space station as it orbited into the path of the solar eclipse over southeastern Canada. NASA. From space, crew members at the International Space Station saw a different perspective of the …
The Washington Post

If you missed Monday’s solar eclipse, it’s a long wait until the next
The Washington Post
Tens of millions of Americans gawked at the skies in unison Monday, transfixed by the celestial spectacle of the decade. A total solar eclipse traced a path from Mexico to the Canadian Maritimes, crisscrossing states from Texas to Maine, …
Space.com

Total solar eclipse: When is the next one in the US?
Space.com
“Solar eclipses happen every few years on the Earth, but the path of totality is only about 100 miles [160 kilometers] wide,” Jason Steffen, associate professor of physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told Space.com. “Two-thirds of the time, the …
BBC News

Peter Higgs obituary: the shy man who changed our understanding of the Universe
BBC News
Prof Peter Higgs was best known for that mysterious-sounding thing nicknamed the ‘God particle’ – or just simply, and probably better-put, the Higgs boson. He came up with the revolutionary idea in the 1960s when he wanted to explain why the basic …
The New York Times

Fjords, Pharaohs or Koalas? Time to Plan for Your Next Eclipse.
The New York Times
If you can’t get enough of totality, or missed out this time, you’ll have three more chances in the next four years in destinations like Iceland, Spain, Egypt and Australia.