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June 27, 2023
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Space.com

ULA delays 1st launch of Vulcan Centaur rocket again

The company will destack the heavy lifter and ship the upper stage back to the factory for modifications. Comments (0). a red-and-white rocket on a launch pad at sunset. ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force …

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BBC News

The underwater search for an alien meteor

The relics of the first interstellar meteor are thought to lie at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Last week one controversial scientist and his team claimed to have found them. D. Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, in an inky abyss roughly a mile (1.6km) …

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Space.com

Listen to the eerie sounds of distant galaxies in breathtaking NASA video

Relish in the pleasant thrumming of galaxies and stars in deep space whose data has been “sonified” into orchestral music. Sound cannot travel through space, thanks to the lack of air to act as a medium. Instead, NASA has produced musical tones from …

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Space.com

How human ‘computers’ Annie Jump Cannon and Henrietta Swan Leavitt revolutionized astronomy

In the early 20th century, a team of “human computers” — women tasked with the grueling labor of manual astronomical data processing — went far beyond their job descriptions, not to mention the societal norms of the time, to revolutionize astronomy.

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SciTechDaily

Mars donut! Perseverance rover spots holey Red Planet rock (photo)

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has rolled up on a rocky donut that may have fallen from the sky. On Friday (June 23), Perseverance snapped a photo of a big, dark stone with a hole in its center. The intriguing rock is surrounded by others of a similar …

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Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Lab-Made Human Embryos Offer New Window for Developmental Disorders

When Berna Sozen, PhD, assistant professor of Developmental Stem Cell Biology at Yale, was in her first weeks of pregnancy, she couldn’t help but wonder about what exactly was going on in the “black box” of human development occurring inside her, …

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA’s Roman and ESA’s Euclid Will Team Up to Investigate Dark Energy

A new space telescope named Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with important contributions from NASA, is set to launch in July to explore why the universe’s expansion is speeding up. Scientists call the unknown cause of this cosmic …

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Smithsonian

Tonga Volcano Sparked the Most Intense Lightning Storm Ever Recorded

Last year’s eruption produced a raging storm at unprecedented altitudes, with 2,600 lightning flashes per minute at its peak. Will Sullivan. Daily Correspondent. June 27, 2023 10:31 a.m.. An aerial view showing plumes of ash and vapor rising …

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KCRA Sacramento

Webb telescope detects crucial carbon molecule in space for the first time

The compound, called methyl cation, or CH3+, was traced back to a young star system located 1,350 light-years away from Earth in the Orion Nebula, according to NASA.

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Big Think

Could the expanding Universe truly be a mirage?

A cute mathematical trick can “rescale” the Universe so that it isn’t actually expanding. But can that “trick” survive all our cosmic tests? big bang mirage. Conventionally, the standard model of cosmology asserts that our Universe began with a Big …

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