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Spaceflight Now

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket streaks into a moonlit sky over Cape Canaveral in this long exposure photo. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography. An Airbus-built communications satellite rocketed into orbit early Saturday from Cape …

Spaceflight Now

Three NASA astronauts and a European flier boarded their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth Friday, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean east of Jacksonville to close out a 170-day …

CNN

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst on October 9. The bright rings are X-rays scattered by dust layers within our galaxy. NASA/Swift/A …

EarthSky

And that’s with balloons. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, reported on October 10, 2022, that one of its concepts for an aerobot – an aerial robotic balloon – has successfully completed two test flights over Nevada.

Phys.Org

A new study recently published in The ISME journal has revealed that diazotrophs, a group of marine cyanobacteria that are able to convert nitrogen gas (N2) from the atmosphere into nutrients for primary producers in the ocean, contribute directly to …

USA TODAY

This meteor shower also sometimes produces bright fireballs. The Orionids get their name because they seem to come from the constellation Orion the Hunter. One of fall’s top astronomical spectacles will appear in the night …

Los Angeles Times

Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire! California’s night sky will be lit up this week. The annual Orionid meteor shower will peak early morning Friday. Advertisement. Orionids, named after the constellation Orion because they appear near the cluster …

Big Think

1.9 billion years ago, a massive star died in a spectacular explosion, producing a supernova, a gamma-ray burst, and likely a black hole in the process. On October 9, 2022, its light arrived here on Earth, including gamma-rays, X-rays, and an optical …

SkyandTelescope.com

The first stars were “pure” in the sense that they must have been free of metals, the term astronomers use to mean any elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. For historical reasons, we call these stars Population III (Pop III).

Medical Xpress

A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the Republic of Korea has developed a new way to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for noninvasive tracking of the propagation of brain signals on millisecond timescales.