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Jupiter's icy moon Europa will block out a star for lucky skywatchers Later this month, skywatchers in Africa can watch a star blink out of sight thanks to a quirk of celestial arrangements. The European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia, which launched in 2013 ...
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Gaia probe detects unusual 'starquakes' during recent survey The galaxy-mapping mission Gaia has detected thousands of stellar earthquakes that might provide new insights into the inner workings of stars. The discovery is rather surprising as the spacecraft was not designed to do ...
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Two hurricane research satellites lost in Astra launch failure Two small NASA hurricane research satellites were destroyed after launch from Cape Canaveral Sunday when their commercial rocket, provided by Astra, prematurely shut down its upper stage engine before reaching the mission's target orbit.
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June's strawberry moon will light up the sky this week The moon will appear full from Sunday moonrise to Wednesday moonset, according to NASA. It will reach its peak at 7:52 a.m. ET Tuesday but will not be fully visible in North America until moonrise. This year's strawberry moon is the first of two ...
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Low-cost Astra rocket suffers upper stage failure, two NASA satellites lost California-based Astra on Sunday launched two shoebox-size NASA satellites from Cape Canaveral in a modest mission to improve hurricane forecasts, but the second stage of the company's low-cost booster malfunctioned before reaching orbit and the ...
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A strawberry supermoon will rise on Tuesday. Here's how to watch Attention, amateur astronomers: The moon will look unusually full and bright on Tuesday night, and you won't need a high-tech telescope or fancy binoculars to admire it. June's full moon is commonly known as the strawberry moon, a name that comes from ...
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Gaia sees strange stars in most detailed Milky Way survey to date Gaia is ESA's mission to create the most accurate and complete multi-dimensional map of the Milky Way. This allows astronomers to reconstruct our home galaxy's structure and past evolution over billions of years, and to better understand the lifecycle ...
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Astronomers May Have Discovered the First Wandering Black Hole For the first time, astronomers have used a quirk of gravity's effect on starlight to spot a "free-floating" black hole. Why it matters. Until now, the only way to spy on the mysterious cosmic objects was by looking for the light reflected by matter on ...
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The moon will block a bright double star tonight. Here's how to see it. Weather permitting, stargazers in the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada can see the double star Delta Scorpii (also known as Dschubba) as it slips behind the moon's leading edge for about hour. The exact ...
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NASA loses 2 weather satellites after Astra rocket launch fails to deliver them to orbit Just over seven minutes after the 1:43 p.m. ET liftoff from Launch Complex 46, a flash below Rocket 3.3's upper stage appeared before its single engine prematurely shut down. Two NASA science payloads designed to study storms, named TROPICS, were attached ...
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