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June 19, 2024
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“Without these spaceborne observations, we would be blind to where activity is on the sunspots.”.
CNN

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard, approaches the International Space Station for an autonomous docking after its June 5 launch. NASA.
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a glowing blue star floats in space next to an earth-like planet of the. White dwarfs would be roughly the same size as any potentially habitable planets that might orbit them.
Spaceflight Now

Boeing’s leak-prone Starliner capsule will remain docked to the International Space Station an additional four days, NASA announced Tuesday, returning to Earth with a pre-dawn landing at White Sands, New Mexico, on June 26 to close out an extended …
CNN

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back a steady stream of scientific data from uncharted territory for the first time since a computer glitch sidelined the historic NASA mission seven months ago. Currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth …
CNN

“Imagine you’ve been observing a distant galaxy for years, and it always seemed calm and inactive,” said lead study author Paula Sánchez Sáez, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory in Germany, in a statement.
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In December of 2019, the sky-scanning Zwicky Transient Facility — a telescope perched on California’s Palomar Mountain — alerted astronomers to a sudden flare coming from an otherwise unremarkable galaxy some 300 million light-years from Earth in the …
CNN

The Boeing Starliner spacecraft (far back) is seen docked with the International Space Station’s Harmony module in this image shared by NASA on June 14. NASA. Sign …
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During this event, the moon rises and sets at its most extreme northerly and southerly positions on the horizon, reaching its highest and lowest points in the 18.6-year lunar cycle. This is …
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The appearance this week of the three bright Summer Triangle stars — Vega, Deneb and Altair — marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s how to spot them. Comments (0). Summer triangle and meteors observed from Grünstadt, Germany.