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⋅ April 22, 2024
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12 of the best total solar eclipse 2024 photos from our readers
Space.com
Pal’s wife Sudakshina Chakrabarty also captured an incredible close-up view of the eclipse with a diamond ring effect and visible solar prominences flaring pink. an eclipsed sun appears …
Space.com

Earth Day 2024: Witness our changing planet in 12 incredible satellite images
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Every year on April 22, we celebrate Earth Day. This annual event is a time to focus on the environmental issues we have across the planet and highlight the efforts being made so we can continue to protect it.
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Happy Earth Day 2024! NASA picks 6 new airborne missions to study our changing planet
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In a media briefing on Friday (April 19), NASA officials announced six new airborne missions that will focus on arctic coastal change, weather created by wildfires, urban air pollution, impacts of changing weather patterns on landscapes, retreating …
Space.com

Scientists use AI to reconstruct energetic flare blasted from Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
Space.com
“This work is a unique collaboration between astronomers and computer scientists advancing cutting-edge computational tools from both the fields of AI and gravitational physics.” Comments (0). A swirling circle of reddish striations on the left.
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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft finally phones home after 5 months of no contact
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On Saturday, April 5, Voyager 1 finally “phoned home” and updated its NASA operating team about its health. Comments (0). An illustration of a spacecraft with a white disk in space. Voyager 1, launched in September 1977, is currently exploring the …
BBC News

European astronauts rookies make the grade
BBC News
The European Space Agency’s latest intake of astronauts have completed their basic training. The group of five received their graduation certificates at a special ceremony in Cologne in Germany. They must now prepare for a specific flight assignment to …
Livescience.com

Scientists discover 1st-of-its-kind cell part born from a swallowed microbe
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Researchers think a microbe that was engulfed by an algal cell 100 million years ago has since evolved into an integral part of the cell’s machinery. Comments (0). A microscopic image of a oblong, greenish cell with a black arrow pointing to a.
USA TODAY

NASA shares new data on Death Valley’s rare ‘Lake Manly’ showing just how deep it got
USA TODAY
The desert in southeastern California about two hours west of Las Vegas received enough rain to form a lake so deep that for a few weeks visitors could kayak in the Badwater Basin, which lies 282 feet below sea level, according to a news release from the …
Scientific American

Time Slows Down When We See Something Memorable
Scientific American
“There are a lot of illusions of time,” says Martin Wiener, a cognitive neuroscientist at George Mason University, though scientists aren’t sure what is happening in the brain to cause them. Among …
Livescience.com

James Webb telescope’s ‘shocking’ discovery may hint at hidden exomoon around ‘failed star’
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JWST’s surprise discovery of methane emissions and likely aurorae over a distant brown dwarf could indicate this “failed star” is orbited by an active moon. Comments (0). An illustration of a brown dwarf and its infrared emissions as seen by the James …