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⋅ April 16, 2024
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Space.com

What’s left of the 2024 solar eclipse lives in our hearts
Space.com
For a few moments this year, the sun was a lime green portal for Vicki Stirm. It happened while she was standing among tens of thousands of people on an asphalt racetrack in Indiana, on the same day our moon briefly stopped our star from illuminating …
Scientific American

Dark energy could be getting weaker, suggesting the universe will end in a ‘Big Crunch’
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The current “standard model” of the cosmos, its history, and its evolution is called the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model — but the supremacy of this model, in which lambda represents the cosmological constant and dark energy, may now be under serious …
The Washington Post

How did life on Earth begin? Cracks may have been the key.
The Washington Post
The findings quickly became famous: Out of this primordial soup emerged amino acids, the chemical building blocks of life. The discovery kick-started a quest within chemistry and …
Space.com

Boeing Starliner spacecraft rolls out to Atlas V rocket ahead of 1st astronaut launch (photos)
Space.com
Onboard the mission, known as Crew Flight Test (CFT), will be two veteran NASA astronauts and former Navy test pilots: commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams.
Spaceflight Now

NASA requests proposals to reduce cost, timeline of Mars Sample Return mission
Spaceflight Now
This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples of rocks and soil being collected from the Martian surface by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/ESA/ …
Space.com

Exotic ‘Einstein ring’ suggests that mysterious dark matter interacts with itself
Space.com
In the field of one of JWST’s largest-area surveys, COSMOS-Web,. The remarkably dense JWST-ER1 galaxy and its Einstein ring, as captured by the James Webb …
CNN

A piece of space station garbage hit a house in Florida, NASA confirms
CNN
The recovered piece of space debris was part of flight support equipment that NASA used to mount International Space Station batteries on a cargo pallet. The part impacted a home in Naples, Florida. NASA.
Newsweek

Record breaker! Milky Way’s most monstrous stellar-mass black hole is sleeping giant lurking close to Earth
Space.com
The Milky Way has a big newfound black hole, and it lurks close to Earth! This sleeping giant was discovered with the European space telescope Gaia, which tracks the motion of billions of stars in our galaxy. Stellar-mass black holes are created when a …
Space.com

Uranus and Neptune aren’t made of what we thought, new study hints
Space.com
A study suggests the ice giants Uranus and Neptune aren’t quite as watery as previously thought. They may also contain huge amounts of frozen methane, potentially solving the puzzle of how they formed. Comments (0). This image of Uranus from NIRCam …
The New York Times

NASA Searching for New Ideas for Its Mars Rocks Return Mission
The New York Times
The cost of a proposed NASA mission to gather rocks on Mars and return them to Earth is spiraling upward and slipping further into the future. So on Monday, space agency officials asked for ideas on simplifying the mission and trimming its price tag.