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⋅ June 20, 2024
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Space.com

Space.com
Rocket Lab reached the milestone 50th launch of its Electron rocket in record time. An Electron lifted off from Pad B at Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, at 2:13 p.m. EDT on June 20 (1813 GMT; 6:13 a.m. local New Zealand time on June 21).
CNN

CNN
A reconstruction shows the newly named dinosaur species Lokiceratops rangiformis in a swamp habitat of what’s now Montana. The dinosaur lived about 78 million years ago. Sergey Krasovskiy/Museum of Evolution.
Space.com

Space.com
Rocket Lab plans to launch its Electron vehicle for the 50th time today (June 20), and you can watch the milestone moment live. An Electron rocket topped with five small satellites for the French Internet of Things (IoT) company Kinéis is scheduled to …
Phys.Org

Phys.Org
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is the only other planetary body in the solar system that currently hosts active rivers, lakes, and seas. These otherworldly river systems are thought to be filled with liquid methane and ethane that flows into wide lakes …
Space.com

Space.com
In 1665, Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini observed a giant dark spot on Jupiter, which he called the “Permanent Spot.” (English scientist Robert Hooke might’ve discovered it a year earlier, in 1664, but I digress.) Though astronomers mysteriously …
Scientific American

Scientific American
By sequencing the snippets, they can tell they’re dealing with new species, thousands of them, that are genetically distinct from any known to science. They just can’t match that DNA to tangible organisms growing out in the world.
Space.com

Space.com
The simulation, called the Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise, was held April 2 and April 3 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland. It aimed “to inform and assess our ability …
Livescience.com

Livescience.com
Fast radio bursts erupt in the sky around 10,000 times a day, but scientists still struggle to explain them. New research could put astronomers one step closer to a solution. radio bursts in night sky. Fast radio bursts flash in the sky over Earth.
Smithsonian

Smithsonian
Beginning next year, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will use the world’s largest digital camera to give us a whole new view of the universe. Dan Falk. Science Correspondent. June 20, 2024 8:00 a.m. …
The New York Times

The New York Times
An illustration shows a ceratopsian dinosaur with large, ornate frill and long eye-horns. An artist’s reconstruction of Lokiceratops rangiformis, a new species of ceratopsian recovered from the badlands of northern Montana.