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June 4, 2024
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Space.com

China’s Chang’e 6 probe launches samples of far side of the moon to lunar orbit. Next stop? Earth (photos)

Additionally, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released stunning footage that shows the lunar far side samples the lander has been collecting over the past two days. The samples were launched to orbit at 7:38 a.m. Beijing Time on Tuesday, …

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The Hubble Space Telescope is old. Here’s NASA’s new plan to keep it alive through 2035

NASA officials announced today (June 4) that the misbehaving hardware is beyond repair, leaving Hubble with just two functioning gyros out of a total of six. As a result, the agency will shift the telescope into one-gyro mode, keeping the other healthy one …

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Intricate lava trails on Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io seen from Earth (image)

Using a telescope perched on a mountain in Arizona, scientists have managed to take snapshots of Jupiter’s active moon Io — and these images are so detailed they even rival pictures of the world taken from space. To capture these views, the team used a …

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Sun unleashes giant plasma plume and reels it back in apparent ‘failed eruption’ (video)

The sun erupted in a dazzling spectacle on Monday (June 3), firing off an intense solar flare captured in stunning detail by a NASA solar observatory. But when you look closely at the eruption, it appears that much of the solar material in the vast …

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CNN

China’s Chang’e-6 probe lifts off with samples from moon’s far side in historic first

China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe departed from the far side of the moon on Tuesday, moving a step closer to completing an ambitious mission that underlines the country’s rise as a space superpower. In a symbolic moment before takeoff, …

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BBC News

China’s far-side Moon probe begins journey back with samples

China says its lunar probe has successfully taken off from the far side of the moon to begin its journey back to Earth carrying the first-ever samples collected from that region. State media says a module of the Chang’e-6 craft, named after the moon …

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Space.com

Astrophotographer captures planetary parade with the moon in stunning photo

Astrophotographer Josh Dury was able to capture Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Neptune, Saturn and the moon in one single image during a planetary alignment on June 1, 2024. Comments (0). a person stands with their back to the viewer, pointing at …

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Space.com

Japan to launch world’s 1st wooden satellite in September

Japan plans to launch the world’s first wooden satellite this September. The experimental satellite, called LignoSat, was developed by researchers at Kyoto University and the Japanese logging company Sumitomo Forestry. It is set to launch to the …

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Scientific American

Exotic Quantum State Achieved after Decades-Long Quest

Velocity-distribution data for a gas of rubidium atoms before, during and after the appearance of a Bose–Einstein condensate. The peak forms as all the atoms occupy the lowest possible quantum energy state.

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SpaceNews

Congressional language alters plans for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory

WASHINGTON — Congressional language intended to accelerate work on a future NASA space telescope has the side effect of forcing the agency to disband a team it created to guide the mission’s early development. NASA established last year two committees …

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