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April 20, 2024
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Space.com

Those magic minutes during April 8’s solar eclipse brought me to tears

A woman with shoulder length brown wavy hair holds one hand over her mouth and her. Meredith Garofalo watching the eclipse in Dallas, Texas. (Image credit: Meredith Garofalo).

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Space.com

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 107 — Mars Sample Return Blues

The robotic program has its roots in the 1960s, when NASA started thinking about sending robots to fetch Mars soil even before Mariner 4’s first flyby of the planet. The Russians pondered it as well, as the Chinese and Japanese are today. The problem?

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CNN

11-year-old’s fossil discovery reveals ancient creature larger than a blue whale

An illustration depicts how a giant pair of swimming Ichthyotitan severnensis may have appeared 202 million years ago. Gabriel Ugueto. Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared …

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CNN

Scientists spot ‘glory effect’ on a world beyond our solar system for the first time

Observations from the European Space Agency’s Cheops space telescope, or Characterising ExOplanet Satellite, detected a “glory effect” on WASP-76b, an ultra-hot exoplanet 637 light-years from Earth. Often …

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The Washington Post

How to watch the Lyrid meteor shower before the full moon

Celebrate this Earth Day with a celestial show in our night skies. The Lyrid meteor shower, active from April 15 to 29, will peak April 22 with about 18 meteors per hour. The meteors don’t typically have long trains but can produce bright flashes, …

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USA TODAY

Video shows space junk after object from ISS came crashing through Florida home

Ground controllers in March 2021 had used the ISS’s robotic arm to “release a cargo pallet containing aging nickel hydride batteries from the space station,” according to a NASA blog post. They figured that the 5,8000 pound mass of hardware would “fully …

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KXAN.com

Could a ‘new star’ appear in the sky this summer? Here’s what to know

You’ll find Corona Borealis between the constellations of Hercules and Boötes, located toward the north. More specifically, according to the guide below from NASA, it’ll be roughly in line with Vega and Arcturus.

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Phys.Org

AI for Earth: How NASA’s artificial intelligence and open science efforts combat climate change

As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these events, but also empowering …

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Talk of Titusville

Alabama rocket to carry new NASA space capsule and set up a “meeting of the penguins”

NASA is preparing for a planned May launch of an Atlas-V rocket, built in Alabama. The booster is set to carry the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner space capsule to the International Space Station. The spacecraft is currently at the launch pad …

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com

NASA discovers a hidden galaxy containing ‘billions of stars’

Situated 100 million light-years away, this galaxy offers valuable insights into galaxy formation processes and challenges our perception of the universe. The discovery, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, inspires future generations of scientists and …

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