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⋅ May 28, 2024
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Scientists pick their favorite Euclid ‘dark universe’ telescope images: ‘The best is still to come’
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Several of the Euclid images taken so far. Scientists have selected their favorites. (Image credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO or ESA Standard Licence.).
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How scientists shipped astronomy’s largest camera from California to Chile
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a cross-bar crane hoist hanging from a support beam across the ceiling of a. The SUV-sized LSST Camera is lifted above the floor inside Rubin Observatory. ( …
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Watch SpaceX send Earth-observing satellite to orbit today on 2nd leg of doubleheader
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You can watch live as a new Earth-observation mission flies to space today (May 28). A Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX will lift off with the Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer satellite, or EarthCARE for short, today at 6:20 p.m. EDT (2220 GMT or …
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Zero Debris Charter aims to boost international cooperation on cleaning up Earth’s space junk problem
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ESA and some of its member states have signed the non-binding Zero Debris Charter, committing themselves to take steps to help tackle the orbital debris problem. an illustration of Earth surrounded by thousands of bright dots.
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Volcanoes on Venus might be erupting right now
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Evidence continues to assemble that Venus is more geologically active than previously thought. Planetary scientists scouring decades-old data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft have found signs of lava flows coming from two volcanoes on Venus …
Spaceflight Now

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch ESA’s EarthCARE on a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base
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A rendering of the Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) spacecraft onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage as the payload fairings deploy. Graphic: ESA. The European Space Agency is preparing to launch its latest Earth observing …
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Chinese astronauts perform record-breaking spacewalk outside Tiangong space station (video)
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Two Chinese astronauts just set a new spacewalking record for the country. Ye Guangfu and Li Guangsu, two members of China’s three-person Shenzhou 18 mission, spent about 8.5 hours working outside the Tiangong space station today (May 28).
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Just keep swimming! Zebrafish doing fine in zero gravity on China’s Tiangong space station (video)
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The four zebrafish China sent to its space station are thriving after spending almost a month in orbit. Launched on April 25 alongside three astronauts aboard the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft, the zebrafish and four grams of goldfish algae are currently in …
Phys.Org

Mystery of ‘slow’ solar wind unveiled by Solar Orbiter mission
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Solar wind, which can travel at hundreds of kilometers per second, has fascinated scientists for years, and new research published in Nature Astronomy, is finally shedding light on how it forms. Solar wind describes …
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Colossal X-class solar flare suggests return of sunspot group that fueled May’s epic auroras (video)
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Old sunspot group AR3664, the most active sunspot region of the current solar cycle announced its return in explosive fashion. Comments (0). Click here for more Space.com videos… The colossal sunspot group AR3664 responsible for the epic May 2024 …