Wednesday, March 29, 2023

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Space.com
NASA's decision to pull the funding for the modest VERITAS mission to Venus, which was both on track and on budget, in order to accommodate other missions facing cost overruns has left the team members outraged and confused.
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Space.com
SpaceX plans to launch yet another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit and land the returning rocket on a ship at sea today (March 29), and you can watch the action live. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with 56 Starlink satellites is ...
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Space.com
An extragalactic outburst whose light hurtled through the inner solar system last fall was 70 times brighter than any other such eruption that scientists have observed, researchers report. Radiation from the explosion — a gamma ...
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CNN
The Hubble Space Telescope captured these images of Jupiter. (From left) In November 2022, storms form a wave pattern. A January 2023 view shows the Great Red Spot, as the moon Ganymede transits (lower right).
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The Verge
But rather than jubilation, the mood in the planetary science community is grim, as funding has been gutted for a key Venus mission that was poised to answer some of the biggest questions about the planet and its volcanic activity.
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Phys.Org
He led an analysis of some 7,000 GRBs—mostly detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Russian Konus instrument on NASA's Wind spacecraft—to establish how frequently events this bright may occur. Their answer: once in every 10,000 years.
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CBS News
A large asteroid zipped past Earth last week, in a relatively rare event that astronomers described as one "very close encounter" with our planet. The space rock, called 2023 DZ2 by NASA, reached its shortest distance from the atmosphere on Friday and ...
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Phys.Org
They have detailed the findings in a study titled "Whale shark rhodopsin adapted to deep-sea lifestyle by a substitution associated with human disease," published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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BBC News
Scientists have revealed how Nasa satellites detected the brightest ever gamma ray explosion in space. The gamma-ray burst (GRB) occurred two billion lightyears from Earth and illuminated much of the galaxy. Images of the rare and powerful cosmic ...
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Astronomy Magazine
Astronomers have long predicted that two neutron stars — a binary — merging to produce a black hole should also produce a burst of radio waves. The two neutron stars will be highly magnetic, and black holes cannot have magnetic fields.
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