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The Milky Way’s system of small, orbiting satellite galaxies is quite unusual, a new 12-year study of other galaxies in the local universe has found. The Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) survey is being conducted by a small group of …

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At the center of almost every large galaxy in the universe sits a supermassive black hole — and any surrounding clouds of gas, dust, or even stars that wander too close are consumed as they cross over the event horizons of these cosmic monsters.

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Deok-Ho Kim, a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, led the project to send heart tissue to the space station. He and his Ph.D. student at the time, Jonothan Tsui, created the bioengineered …

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However, many of us will be nowhere near the path of annularity — a route that passes across the Pacific Ocean, southern Chile and southern Argentina. Instead we must look to the next best thing: livestreams!

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Here’s what time the “ring of fire” annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024 will occur as well as the annular eclipse times and durations for locations in the path of annularity. Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an …

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Yang Liwei, deputy chief designer of China’s manned space program, unveils China’s moon-landing spacesuit on September 28, 2024 in the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing. VCG/Visual China Group/Getty …

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Part of that prep work is a key fueling test known as a wet dress rehearsal (WDR), during which the rocket will be “loaded with a million pounds of cryogenic propellants at Space Launch Complex-41 and put through a complete countdown procedure,” ULA said …

BBC News

A SpaceX capsule sent to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) has docked. The Dragon capsule, which has two empty seats for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, docked at 17:30 eastern time (22:30 BST).

Reuters

After SpaceX on Saturday launched two astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, the rocket body that had boosted the crew further into space failed to properly re-light its engine for its “deorbit burn,” a routine procedure that discards the …

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On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new “minimoon” called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days, but is too small to be visible to amateur skywatchers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an …