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Additionally, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released stunning footage that shows the lunar far side samples the lander has been collecting over the past two days. The samples were launched to orbit at 7:38 a.m. Beijing Time on Tuesday, …

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NASA officials announced today (June 4) that the misbehaving hardware is beyond repair, leaving Hubble with just two functioning gyros out of a total of six. As a result, the agency will shift the telescope into one-gyro mode, keeping the other healthy one …

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Using a telescope perched on a mountain in Arizona, scientists have managed to take snapshots of Jupiter’s active moon Io — and these images are so detailed they even rival pictures of the world taken from space. To capture these views, the team used a …

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The sun erupted in a dazzling spectacle on Monday (June 3), firing off an intense solar flare captured in stunning detail by a NASA solar observatory. But when you look closely at the eruption, it appears that much of the solar material in the vast …

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China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe departed from the far side of the moon on Tuesday, moving a step closer to completing an ambitious mission that underlines the country’s rise as a space superpower. In a symbolic moment before takeoff, …

BBC News

China says its lunar probe has successfully taken off from the far side of the moon to begin its journey back to Earth carrying the first-ever samples collected from that region. State media says a module of the Chang’e-6 craft, named after the moon …

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Astrophotographer Josh Dury was able to capture Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Neptune, Saturn and the moon in one single image during a planetary alignment on June 1, 2024. Comments (0). a person stands with their back to the viewer, pointing at …

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Japan plans to launch the world’s first wooden satellite this September. The experimental satellite, called LignoSat, was developed by researchers at Kyoto University and the Japanese logging company Sumitomo Forestry. It is set to launch to the …

Scientific American

Velocity-distribution data for a gas of rubidium atoms before, during and after the appearance of a Bose–Einstein condensate. The peak forms as all the atoms occupy the lowest possible quantum energy state.

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WASHINGTON — Congressional language intended to accelerate work on a future NASA space telescope has the side effect of forcing the agency to disband a team it created to guide the mission’s early development. NASA established last year two committees …