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CAPSTONE: A pathfinding moon cubesat for the Artemis program CAPSTONE is an important mission for the next generation of space exploration. A significant step on this ambitious journey will be a crewed mission to the surface of the moon under the Artemis program. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System ...
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Betelgeuse's 'Great Dimming' had an unlikely observer: a Japanese weather satellite Astronomers have a new way to study stars: take advantage of meteorological satellites orbiting Earth. That's the conclusion of a new paper that presents new data from a Japanese weather satellite that just so happened to observe the red supergiant ...
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New tau Herculid meteor shower drops bright fireballs, but no 'meteor storm,' for stargazers (photos) Bright "shooting stars" from a new meteor shower lit up the night sky in a dazzling display overnight Monday and Tuesday, even if it wasn't a "meteor storm" some stargazers hoped for. The new meteor shower peaked around midnight Tuesday (May 31) as ...
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Shades of Uranus: Scientists know why the planet and Neptune are different hues of blue A new model, using wavelengths from ultraviolet to near-infrared, investigates multiple atmospheric layers in each of the planets. The study shows that embedded in the inner atmospheric planetary layers, there is even more haze than thought, rather than ...
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Launch of NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat moon mission delayed to June 13 The launch of NASA's CAPSTONE moon mission has been pushed back another week, to no earlier than June 13. The 55-pound (25 kilograms) CAPSTONE spacecraft will lift off atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster equipped with a Lunar Photon upper stage, ...
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4 hostile alien civilizations may lurk in the Milky Way, a new study suggests "This paper attempts to provide an estimation of the prevalence of hostile extraterrestrial civilizations through an extrapolation of the probability that we, as the human civilization, would attack or invade an inhabited exoplanet," Caballero wrote in the ...
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World's largest plant is a seagrass meadow growing in Australia, scientists say The world's largest living plant has been identified in the shallow waters off the coast of Western Australia, according to scientists. The sprawling seagrass, a marine flowering plant known as Posidonia australis, stretches for more ...
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Pale Blue, Deep Blue: How Uranus and Neptune Get Their Colors It's an intriguing question. Uranus and Neptune, the two outermost planets of our solar system, are both ice giants — cold worlds that are part gas, part ice, with similar chemical compositions. They ...
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Great whites may have doomed the biggest shark that ever lived, fossil teeth reveal However, the two shark species, which once coexisted, likely hunted some of the same prey. This competition could potentially have been one reason why the 65-foot-long (20-meter-long) megalodon went extinct, a new study has suggested. To arrive at this ...
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Killer Asteroids Are Hiding in Plain Sight. A New Tool Helps Spot Them. Ed Lu wants to save Earth from killer asteroids. Or at least, if there is a big space rock streaking our way, Dr. Lu, a former NASA astronaut with a doctorate in applied physics, wants to find it before it hits us — hopefully with years of advance ...
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