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April 11, 2024
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Space.com

Top total solar eclipses to look out for over the next decade

Want to experience totality again? Here are the next seven total solar eclipses across the world, from Alaska to Australia. Comments (0). map showing the routes of upcoming total solar eclipses and annular solar eclipses across Earth along.

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Space.com

Stars make a bigger mess in old galaxies, and scientists just figured out why

Our sun orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy once every 225 million years, at a velocity averaging 514,495 mph (828,000 kph). Astronomers call this a “galactic year.” The sun’s path around the galaxy is nearly circular, although it does bob up and …

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Space.com

Achoo! Baby star ‘sneezes’ tell astronomers a lot about their development

That’s when a litany of possible issues and ailments probably begin to irrationally race through your mind. Researchers now know baby stars also “sneeze,” but these infinitely more powerful post-natal sneezes launch gas, dust, and magnetic energy. In other …

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Space.com

Monster star gains magnetic personality following stellar merger

Massive stars gain their magnetism by colliding and merging with other stars, according to evidence from a bizarre binary system surrounded by a dusty, element-rich nebula. Inside that bipolar nebula, which …

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Phys.Org

Physicists discover a novel quantum state in an elemental solid

The finding, published in Nature, came when Princeton scientists discovered that an elemental solid crystal made of arsenic (As) atoms hosts a never-before-observed form of topological quantum behavior. They were able …

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Scientific American

Did the Eclipse Give You the Amateur Astronomy Bug? Here’s How to Get Started

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a professional astronomer, talks about her own adventures in astrophotography—and offers tips and tricks for new amateur astronomers. By Clara Moskowitz, Elah Feder & Rachel Feltman · Babak Tafreshi/Getty Images.

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Forbes

Colossal Expands Research Grants As It Tries To Revive Extinct Species

Dallas-based “de-extinction” startup Colossal said today it is adding $7.5 million in research grants in an effort to speed the process of recreating the DNA of long-dead species such as the wooly mammoth and thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian …

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Space.com

SpaceX to launch advanced weather satellite for US Space Force today

Liftoff of the USSF-62 mission is scheduled for 10:25 a.m. ET today (April 11).

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Phys.Org

Japanese astronaut to be first non-American to set foot on moon

A lucky Japanese astronaut will become the first non-American to set foot on the moon during one of NASA’s upcoming Artemis missions, US President Joe Biden announced Wednesday. The offer to Japan—an opportunity many nations have long dreamed of—came …

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BBC News

Digital telescope project awarded £3m

Led by Prof Don Pollacco at the University of Warwick, the team will build the digital device, which will be fed by dozens of smaller telescopes. It is hoped the project will create a highly sensitive …

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