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⋅ November 3, 2024
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Spaceflight Now

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
Spaceflight Now
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Sunday to add another batch of 23 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to SpaceX’s growing megaconstellation. Liftoff of the Starlink 6-77 mission from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral …
Livescience.com

Saturn’s moon Titan may have a 6-mile-thick crust of methane ice — could life be under there?
Livescience.com
Ironically, this layer may make signs of life from the subsurface ocean of Titan easier to detect. And, down the line, the discovery could benefit the fight against human-driven climate change on Earth.
Maui Now

UH Mānoa: New study reveals methane-rich crust on Titan could hold clues to life
Maui Now
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only place other than Earth known to have an atmosphere and liquids in the form of rivers, lakes and seas on its surface. Because of the extremely cold temperature, the liquids on Titan are made of hydrocarbons such as …
Livescience.com

Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a ‘cannonball galaxy’ blasting through space
Livescience.com
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the “ram pressure” inside a massive cluster of galaxies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A photo of a spiral galaxy.
collectSPACE.com

Chef Duff Goldman spins up moon-shaped cake for ‘Taste of Space’
collectSPACE.com
— Duff Goldman has given a surprising amount of thought to baking cakes in outer space. The founder of the Baltimore bake shop Charm City Cakes who rose to fame on the Food Network show “Ace …
Grand Forks Herald

UND research suggests Uranus’ moon could host subterranean ocean
Grand Forks Herald
A UND Ph.D. candidate is the lead author on a study exploring the possibility Uranus’ moon Miranda hosted a massive subsurface ocean in the last 500 million years.
Telegraph.co.uk

The dark family history of a British scientific genius
Telegraph.co.uk
Penrose, whose singularity theorem proved the biggest advance in relativity since Einstein, and whose work on black holes won him a Nobel Prize in 2020, has always been more at ease in the eternal mysteries of the cosmos than the more perplexing realm of …
The Indian Express

Scientists discover new planet with rich metal core, 60 times heavier than Earth
The Indian Express
Located 690 light years away from the Sun, the newest discovered planet is only the fourth exo-planet located in the Neptunian desert to be ever discovered. · facebook · twitter · whatsapp · Reddit.
New York Post

Twin meteor showers to light up the sky on the eve of Election Day: ‘Fireball’
New York Post
Both the Southern Taurids and Northern Taurids pepper the Earth’s atmosphere each fall, dazzling stargazers with trails of light. But NASA said this year’s showers could be “more active than usual.” …
Kerala Kaumudi

Alcohol consumption is widespread in the animal kingdom
New Atlas
Despite stories of “wasps getting drunk” and “beetles consuming beer,” it has been thought that alcohol consumption in the non-human animal world has not been particularly widespread, deliberate or sought out for a physiological benefit.