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“Without these spaceborne observations, we would be blind to where activity is on the sunspots.”.

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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard, approaches the International Space Station for an autonomous docking after its June 5 launch. NASA.

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a glowing blue star floats in space next to an earth-like planet of the. White dwarfs would be roughly the same size as any potentially habitable planets that might orbit them.

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Boeing’s leak-prone Starliner capsule will remain docked to the International Space Station an additional four days, NASA announced Tuesday, returning to Earth with a pre-dawn landing at White Sands, New Mexico, on June 26 to close out an extended …

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The Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back a steady stream of scientific data from uncharted territory for the first time since a computer glitch sidelined the historic NASA mission seven months ago. Currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth …

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“Imagine you’ve been observing a distant galaxy for years, and it always seemed calm and inactive,” said lead study author Paula Sánchez Sáez, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory in Germany, in a statement.

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In December of 2019, the sky-scanning Zwicky Transient Facility — a telescope perched on California’s Palomar Mountain — alerted astronomers to a sudden flare coming from an otherwise unremarkable galaxy some 300 million light-years from Earth in the …

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The Boeing Starliner spacecraft (far back) is seen docked with the International Space Station’s Harmony module in this image shared by NASA on June 14. NASA. Sign …

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During this event, the moon rises and sets at its most extreme northerly and southerly positions on the horizon, reaching its highest and lowest points in the 18.6-year lunar cycle. This is …

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The appearance this week of the three bright Summer Triangle stars — Vega, Deneb and Altair — marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s how to spot them. Comments (0). Summer triangle and meteors observed from Grünstadt, Germany.