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⋅ July 6, 2024
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Space.com

The great silence: Just 4 in 10000 galaxies may host intelligent aliens
Space.com
Alien life capable of communicating across interstellar space might not be able to evolve if its home planet doesn’t possess plate tectonics, not to mention just the right amount of water and dry land. Plate tectonics are absolutely essential if …
CNN

Fossil analysis reveals how Denisovans thrived on the ‘roof of the world’
CNN
Excavations at Baishiya Karst Cave are revealing previously unknown details about the lives of Denisovans on the Tibetan Plateau. Dongju Zhang’s group/Lanzhou University. Editor’s note: A …
Yahoo News

NASA’s vision of a moon-orbiting space station comes to life in new 3D video
Yahoo News
Solar panels. A screenshot from NASA’s new Lunar Gateway visualization. | Credit: NASA/Bradley Reynolds, Alberto Bertolin. Right now, engineers are busy crafting the first …
Space.com

Watch NASA’s 1st year-long mock Mars mission wrap up today
Space.com
That mission, the first in the CHAPEA (“Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog”) series, began on June 25, 2003, when four volunteers were sealed inside a simulated Mars habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston. The quartet will exit …
Yahoo News

‘No fireworks on ISS,’ so astronauts experiment with ‘light painting’ instead (photos)
Yahoo News
A timelapse image showing an astronaut moving from the back to the front of a module. NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick plays with lighting and camera effects for a July 4, 2024 photoshoot on the …
Detroit Free Press

Moonless nights, dark sky parks, more: What to know to see Milky Way galaxy this summer
Detroit Free Press
Believe it or not, the stardust-studded sparkle of the Milky Way galaxy is yet another celestial phenomenon that is visible from Michigan’s backyard with your own eyes. With careful planning, Milky Way season during the late summer months offers an …
Florida Today

That’s one big space jellyfish: Photo of the Week, June 30-July 6, 2024
Florida Today
Senior photographer Malcolm Denemark went out of his comfort zone for the July 3 launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 8-9 mission. The result of that step outside his usual lines, to capture a rocket rising from Launch Complex 40 at Cape …
Los Angeles Times

NASA astronauts spend unexpected July 4 on the International Space Station
Los Angeles Times
The two NASA astronauts docked with the orbiting lab June 6 for what was supposed to be an eight-day mission, but their return home may be delayed for months in what has become a star-crossed test flight for Boeing’s new Starliner capsule.
Alaska Beacon

Alaska’s top-heavy glaciers are approaching an irreversible tipping point
Alaska Beacon
Our work, now published in Nature Communications, has shown that Juneau is an example of a climate “feedback” in action: as temperatures are rising, less and less snow is remaining through the summer (technically: the “end-of-summer snowline” is rising).
Earth.com

Black hole disks are unexpectedly ‘fluffy’ as they grow and evolve
Earth.com
The research was led by Phil Hopkins, the Ira S. Bowen Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at Caltech. Over the years, Profeesor Hopkins has led multiple projects, with this simulation being the apex of intense collaborative efforts.