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⋅ September 5, 2024
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Space.com

Listen to the eerie sounds of an exploded star in new NASA video
Space.com
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have rereleased new “sonified” images of nearby objects, including the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A and 30 Doradus, one of the largest and brightest regions of star …
Space.com

Lucky alignment of 2 spacecraft reveals how solar wind gets a magnetic push
Space.com
“We didn’t initially realize that Parker and Solar Orbiter were measuring the same thing at all — when we connected the two, that was a real eureka moment.” Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
CNN

Common yellow food dye can make the skin of a mouse temporarily transparent, study finds
CNN
In H.G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction novel, “The Invisible Man,” the protagonist invents a serum that makes the cells in his body transparent by controlling how they bend light. More than 100 years …
Space.com

Astronaut watches a meteor explode over Earth in a bright green fireball in stunning video from ISS
Space.com
A new video from an astronaut’s vantage point in space catures a bright green burst over Earth as a meteor exploded in the night sky. NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, commander of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission, shared a new time-lapse of photos taken from …
The Washington Post

Webb telescope detects what looks like a giant question mark in space
The Washington Post
The “Question Mark Pair” is what astronomers have been calling the galaxies they’ve observed in deep space with the James Webb Space Telescope. It is really just an optical illusion. The intriguing image released …
Space.com

The Andromeda Galaxy glows rosy red in gorgeous new Hubble Telescope image
Space.com
countles points of bright light, stars in the black of space. The Andromeda Galaxy is located about 2.5 million light-years away, making it the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbor …
Space.com

Used SpaceX rocket launches 7001st Starlink satellites (and 20 others), lands at sea (video)
Space.com
A SpaceX rocket carrying a new batch of Starlink internet satellites launched into orbit from Florida today (Sept. 5), then returned to Earth in a flawless landing. The used Falcon 9 rocket …
Smithsonian

An Ancient Asteroid Smashed Into Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede and Tipped It Over, Study Finds
Smithsonian
Now, new research has dug up an even more calamitous collision in our solar system’s distant past: An asteroid 20 times the size of the Chicxulub impactor wreaked planetary-scale havoc four billion years ago. And the unfortunate recipient was Ganymede, …
Space.com

Belief in alien visits to Earth is spiraling out of control – here’s why that’s so dangerous
Space.com
Tony Milligan is a Research Fellow in the Philosophy of Ethics at King’s College London. The idea that aliens may have visited the Earth is becoming increasingly popular. Around a fifth of …
Livescience.com

Astronomers discover oldest known eclipse reference in 6000-year-old Hindu text
Livescience.com
A flowery passage in a 6,000-year-old Hindu text may be the earliest known reference to a solar eclipse, describing the sun as being “pierced” with darkness and gloom and proposing that evil beings had caused the sun’s “magic arts to vanish.”.