Thursday, December 30, 2021

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Space.com
Researchers have turned the Earth into a giant telescope to view powerful jets from a black hole. Solar system surveys have revealed new moons and massive comets previously lurking undetected by scientists. The sun has also been a main attraction for ...
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Space.com
"Lego City Space toy playsets come with feature-rich models inspired by real NASA machines, vehicles and spacecraft, plus inspiring astronaut characters for imaginative, open-ended play based on real-life space missions," Lego wrote on its website.
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Space.com
Despite an ambitious science agenda, the mission was designed with just a five-year minimum lifetime — but with the observatory finally in space, NASA is confident that it will have enough fuel to see much more use than that.
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Space.com
China has formally approved three missions targeting the south pole of the moon, with the first to launch around 2024. The missions dubbed Chang'e 6, Chang'e 7 and Chang'e 8 will launch across the 2020s, each with different goals and an array of ...
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The New York Times
America was a nation divided, but that did not stop it from building parts of the James Webb Space Telescope in a red state and testing them in a blue one. The European Union and Russia were facing off over Ukraine and other issues this year, ...
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Space.com
The James Webb Space Telescope is one step closer to finishing the deployment of its massive sunshield. On Wednesday (Dec. 29), the huge new space observatory successfully extended its deployable tower assembly (DTA), a 48-inch-long (1.2 meters) shaft ...
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Spaceflight Now
Webb's Deployable Tower Assembly moved the telescope's mirrors, still folded up in their launch configuration, away from the spacecraft bus. The telescope structure contains Webb's 18 gold-coated hexagonal primary mirror segments and four infrared ...
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Livescience.com
Mount Etna is the most active volcano in Europe, so it's not surprising that it erupted again in 2021. But when it blew its top in February, photographers caught some stunning images of lava spewing from the summit.
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CNN
(CNN) Shrimplike creatures, an extinct dinosaur called the "hell heron" and colorful beetles are among the 552 new species described this year by scientists at the Natural History Museum in London.
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CNN
This is one of the mammoth tusks recovered from a dig site in Swindon, UK. Researchers conserved the tusk, estimated to be more than 200,000 years old, to prevent deterioration.
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