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Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 5-11 mission at 3:10 a.m. EDT (0710 UTC) on June 12 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.

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SARAFINA EL-BADRY NANCE: The universe is not is. It appears. The sun and stars appear to rise in the east and set in the west. The constellations and solar system appear to rotate around the Earth, tracing lines of stardust across the night sky. But this …

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The second supermassive black hole is causing blasts of energy as it dives through a disk of blisteringly hot gas. Comments (0). This artist’s impression shows two massive black holes in the OJ 287 galaxy. two black dots in a large red ring in space …

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A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 72 small satellites is scheduled to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base at 5:19 p.m. EDT (2119 GMT; 2:19 p.m. local California time), kicking off a rideshare mission called Transporter-8.

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Capturing footage of the International Space Station (ISS) hurtling through space at approximately 17,500 mph (28,000 km/h) is no mean feat, yet French astrophotographer Thierry Legault has pulled it off yet again. In his latest stunning footage, …

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Frying works in microgravity, a recent study shows. … Astronauts heading to the moon and Mars in the relatively near future will be pleased to learn that there’s one type of comfort food they can take with them — french fries.

CNN

Professor Jochen Brocks inspected sediments that are 1.64 billion years old in search of molecules of the Protosterol biota in Barney Creek, Northern Australia. The Australian National University.

NPR

Put air, water and yeast starter into Sheehan’s handy machine, wait about two hours and voila: a protein shake textured-yeast that can be dried and rolled into pasta or tortillas. (This is where the rolling pin comes in.).

Space.com

The Hubble Space Telescope has reeled in a titanic cosmic jellyfish. The celestial sea creature is actually the jellyfish galaxy JO206, which is located around 700 million light-years from Earth, fittingly in the constellation of Aquarius, the water …

EarthSky

| Astronomers said today (June 12, 2023) they’ve spotted a new circumbinary multi-planetary system, reminiscent of Tatooine in Star Wars. This is only the 2nd such system known so far. The 2 known planets both orbit the 2 binary stars at the same time.