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⋅ May 8, 2024
NEWS
Space.com

Fall into a black hole in mind-bending NASA animation (video)
Space.com
“So I simulated two different scenarios, one where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — just misses the event horizon and slingshots back out, and one where it crosses the boundary, sealing its fate.” …
Space.com

This diamond exoplanet lost its atmosphere — then it grew another
Space.com
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered that a scorching hot lava planet, believed to be composed of diamond, grew a second atmosphere — and that was after its star destroyed its first atmosphere.
CBS News

Boeing Starliner launch delayed to at least May 17 for Atlas 5 rocket repair
CBS News
After analyzing data following a launch scrub Monday, United Launch Alliance managers decided to haul the Atlas 5 rocket carrying Boeing’s Starliner astronaut ferry ship back to its processing facility to replace a suspect valve, delaying another …
Space.com

Sun explodes in a flurry of powerful solar flares from hyperactive sunspots (video)
Space.com
The most active sunspot of Solar Cycle 25, AR3663, has done it again! Launching yet another X-class solar flare as it approaches the sun’s western limb. And it’s not alone; its sunspot ‘cousin’ AR3664 also unleashed an X-flare and several M-class solar …
Space.com

China’s Chang’e 6 mission to moon’s far side enters lunar orbit
Space.com
a gold tinted spacecraft hovers in shadow above a relatively smooth lunar surface below. Chang’e 6 performed a ‘breaking maneuver’ and entered lunar orbit Tuesday night, May 7 …
Space.com

Boeing’s Starliner rolled off launch pad to replace ‘buzzing’ rocket valve (photo)
Space.com
Starliner and its rocket ride, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V, rolled off the pad at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today (May 8), heading to an assembly building at the site so scientists can replace a misbehaving valve in the …
CBS News

Orbiter captures video of plasma swirling on the sun in “exquisite detail”
CBS News
A spacecraft from the European Space Agency has captured new video of the sun’s surface, showing plasma swirling on the star’s “otherworldly” surface, according to a news release from the organization. The ESA said the images were captured by the Solar …
Scientific American

NASA’s Plans for Next-Generation Mars Helicopters Are Up in the Air
Scientific American
Almost no empty seats remained in the large auditorium for opening day of the 2024 Transformative Vertical Flight conference devoted to helicopter research. Håvard Grip, a chief engineer at NASA, stood before the waiting crowd of aeromechanical …
Space.com

World’s largest visible light telescope spies a galaxy cluster warping spacetime
Space.com
When astronomers look at galaxies, they’re often conducting a sort of archaeology. Well, cosmic archeology. Basically, by examining what a galaxy looks like and how it interacts with its nearest galactic neighbors, it’s possible to reconstruct that …
CNN

Cosmic ‘God’s Hand’ appears to reach across the universe in new telescope image
CNN
A cometary globule, named CG 4, is the cosmic phenomenon that resembles a ghostly hand seemingly reaching toward a spiral galaxy in a new image taken by the Dark Energy Camera. CTIO/NOIRLab …