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⋅ May 29, 2024
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Euclid space telescope finds 1.5 trillion orphan stars wandering the Perseus cluster (images)
Space.com
This so-called “intracluster” light is so faint that it is many thousands of times darker than the night sky over Earth. By observing this intracluster light in the Perseus …
Space.com

Asteroid ‘Dinky,’ visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, birthed its own moon
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The small moon, which is the first contact-binary satellite found orbiting an asteroid, was spun off its parent space rock. three grey space rocks in the blackness of space. the largest is alone on the. Asteroid Dinky on the left and its little moon, …
Space.com

Boeing Starliner astronauts arrive at launch site for 1st flight test on June 1 (photos)
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The mission was delayed May 6, two hours before launch, after an issue with the Atlas V rocket. A leak on Starliner was later discovered. Comments (0). two astronauts in flight suits standing in front of a t-38 jet with cockpit.
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Watch Russian cargo ship launch toward the ISS early on May 30
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A Russian cargo ship will launch toward the International Space Station early Thursday morning (May 30), and you can watch the action live. The robotic Progress 88 freighter is scheduled to lift off atop a Soyuz rocket from the Russia-run Baikonur …
Space.com

Bejeweled galaxy sparkles in new Hubble photo
Space.com
It is located in the constellation Coma Berenices, which means “Berenice’s Hair” in Latin and refers to Queen Berenice II of Egypt. As such, NGC 4689 swirls through the Queen’s sparkling strands.
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Massive sunspot responsible for May’s epic auroras unleashes major X-class solar flare (video)
Space.com
The solar flare eruption peaked around 10:35 a.m. EDT (1435 GMT), causing shortwave radio blackouts across Western Europe and the Eastern United States. But this isn’t the first time …
Phys.Org

Starless and forever alone: More ‘rogue’ planets discovered
Phys.Org
A NASA handout illustration shows an ice-encrusted, Earth-mass planet. Scientists estimate there could be trillions of rogue planets in the Milky Way — and there is a chance some could host life. The Euclid space telescope has discovered seven more …
CBS News

World’s first wooden satellite built by Japanese researchers
CBS News
Each side of the experimental satellite developed by scientists at Kyoto University and logging company Sumitomo Forestry measures four inches. The creators expect the wooden material will burn up completely when the device re-enters the atmosphere …
Scientific American

Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Is Melting Even Faster Than Scientists Thought
Scientific American
At the bottom of the Earth sits a massive bowl of ice you may know as the West Antarctic ice sheet. Each day, the ocean laps away at its base, slowly eroding the glaciers that line its rim.
Yahoo News

Auroras could paint Earth’s skies again in early June. Here are the key nights to watch for.
Yahoo News
If you want to glimpse the northern lights from below the Arctic Circle, be ready to drive to dark skies the first week of June. Earth’s most powerful geomagnetic storm in more than two decades happened between May 10 and May 12, painting the skies …