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⋅ November 6, 2024
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Space.com

‘Vega continues to be unusual:’ Lack of planets around young star puzzles astronomers
Space.com
A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega has found a surprising lack of planets, as evidenced by the disk and surrounding halo being filled with a snow of tiny particles …
Space.com

NASA’s Chandra X-ray spacecraft finds ‘danger zones’ around stars
Space.com
Using NASA’s space-based Chandra X-ray Observatory and the retired Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered “danger zones” for planets that are forming around young stars. The team found these …
Space.com

New NASA coronagraph will measure temperature, speed of solar wind from ISS
Space.com
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World’s 1st wooden satellite arrives at ISS for key orbital test
Space.com
This new spaceflight tech has a very retro feel. The world’s first wooden satellite, a tiny Japanese spacecraft called LignoSat, arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) today (Nov. 5) aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule.
Space.com

SpaceX targeting Nov. 18 for next Starship megarocket launch
Space.com
SpaceX’s Starship megarocket will fly for the sixth time ever less than two weeks from now, if all goes according to plan. Elon Musk’s company announced today (Nov. 6) that it’s targeting Nov. 18 for the next Starship test flight, which will lift off …
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Supernova hides in new Hubble Telescope galaxy ‘light show’ image (photo)
Space.com
A giant spiral galaxy with spots of bright pink and dark reds in its arms. A composite image of observations from the Hubble Space Telescope of a barred spiral galaxy called NGC 1672 …
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NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope sees ‘knots’ blasting from nearby black hole jets
Space.com
a blurry blue dot spits out yellow green blurry jets in blurry black space with green. Bright “knots” within a jet blasted by a nearby black hole appears to move at different …
Spaceflight Now

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
Spaceflight Now
Update Nov. 6, 2:56 p.m. EST: SpaceX pushed the planned T-0 liftoff time to the end of the launch window. SpaceX will take another bite at the apple when it comes to launching its latest batch of Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force …
Smithsonian

Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence With NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
Smithsonian
The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected at an unexpected radio frequency. Margherita Bassi. Daily Correspondent. November 6, 2024 12:55 p.m. …
USA TODAY

Fossil from huge ‘terror bird’ discovered for the first time in Colombia
USA TODAY
The identification of part of the fossilized remains of a so-called “terror bird” species in South America has given researchers new insight into the apex predators that roamed some 12 million years ago. The bird, discovered in central Colombia nearly …