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Spaceflight Now

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is preparing to launch its penultimate national security mission using one of its workhorse Atlas 5 rockets. The mission, dubbed NROL-107 or Silentbarker, is poised for liftoff at 8:47 a.m. EDT (1247 UTC) from Space Launch …

Space.com

These heaters, called radioisotope heater units (RHUs), work by passively radiating heat to keep the hardware onboard spacecraft at sustainable operating temperatures. Most commonly, RHUs used in space missions convert heat generated from the …

Forbes

Imagine you’re on a leaking ship. Do you command everyone to follow your orders precisely, or assemble a team to innovate and construct a makeshift raft? What contextual information would you need to know to determine how to lead? You may want to know …

Phys.Org

XRISM, pronounced “crism,” is a collaborative mission between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA, with participation by the European Space Agency. Unlike existing X-ray telescopes, XRISM …

Space.com

A globular cluster glitters with starlight in a new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope. Located 15,000 light-years from Earth, the globular cluster — formally known as Terzan 12 — is nestled deep in our Milky Way galaxy, in the constellation of …

Phys.Org

Astronomers have discovered the first “bubble of galaxies,” an almost unimaginably huge cosmic structure thought to be a fossilized remnant from just after the Big Bang sitting in our galactic backyard. The bubble spans a billion light years, …

Florida Today

A day later, the countdown proceeded without issue, and the mission was able to launch into a cloudless sky arcing away from the Space Coast on an easterly trajectory over the Atlantic Ocean.

Phys.Org

The early ancestors of humans deliberately made stones into spheres 1.4 million years ago, a study said on Wednesday, though what prehistoric people used the balls for remains a mystery. Archaeologists have long debated exactly how the tennis …

NASASpaceflight.com

Scientists, using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, have discovered a black hole that is continuously snacking on a star that is similar to our Sun. Located in a galaxy around 500 million light-years away from Earth, the black hole’s constant …

Space Ref

IC 1776 recently played host to a catastrophically violent explosion — a supernova — which was discovered in 2015 by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search, a robotic telescope which scours the night sky in search of transient phenomena such as supernovae.