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September 27, 2024
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2-man crew bound for space station, will give Starliner astronauts a ride home in February

Crew 9 commander Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov are scheduled for liftoff from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station atop a Falcon 9 rocket at 1:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, roughly the moment Earth’s rotation carries the rocket …

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Space.com

Record-breaking Milky Way map showcases 1.5 billion objects: ‘We have changed the view of our galaxy forever’

The 200,000 images were collected by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile over the course of over 13 years, from 2010 to 2023, as part of the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey and …

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Space.com

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS may dazzle this weekend. But is the best yet to come?

Viewing difficulties; Daytime visibility; Evening sky visibility. Excitement is building as Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS (pronounced Choo-cheen-SHAHN -ATLAS) continues to brighten as …

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Space.com

Hubble Space Telescope spies a spiral galaxy in a cosmic ‘clock’

The galaxy, called IC 1954, is located approximately 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium, The Clock. It boasts a bright central bar and two large, winding spiral arms threaded with dark clouds of dust and speckled with blue …

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The Planetary Society

How to spot Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas

Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas is a bright comet that’s about to fly around the Sun and pass near Earth. It’s possible to see the comet in the pre-dawn sky right now, and in a couple of weeks, when the comet makes its closest approach to Earth, …

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Space.com

Europe will launch a satellite in 2027 just to watch it burn

The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to launch a satellite to closely watch how it breaks up during its fiery reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. ESA has awarded a contract to European technology group Deimos to begin developing the Destructive Reentry …

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Space.com

SpaceX Crew-9 dropped 2 NASA astronauts from ISS mission, but they were prepared (video)

The Crew-9 roster now includes commander Nick Hague, who is with NASA and the U.S. Space Force, and Roscosmos mission specialist Aleksandr Gorbunov. Two other NASA astronauts were assigned to Crew-9, but will instead wait for another flight: rookie Zena …

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Scientific American

How Your Brain Detects Patterns without Conscious Thought

Hippocampus neuron spider on orange. Hippocampus neuron. Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images. Neuroscience.

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The Planetary Society

The Hera launch: What to expect

The Hera mission is due to launch on Oct. 7, 2024, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Hera will travel to a binary near-Earth asteroid system – Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos.

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Scientific American

Will This Comet Be the Brightest of 2024?

The object in question is called C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)—or just 2023 A3, to save typing. Astronomers discovered it in January 2023 as an asteroidlike dot in images of the sky taken at the Purple Mountain Observatory in China. It was very faint and …

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