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'It's bananas:' Toy fruit becomes first zero-g indicator to fly on SpaceX Starship

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By: robert@collectspace.com (Robert Z. Pearlman)
November 20th 2024 at 2:30 pm
An artificial banana floated in the microgravity environment of outer space. No longer needing its attached tethers, it just hung there in the bay of its spacecraft's otherwise empty cargo hold.

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SpaceX's epic Starship Super Heavy rocket catch looked just like the company imagined (side-by-side video)

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By: jdinner@space.com (Josh Dinner)
November 18th 2024 at 10:30 pm
New video ahead of SpaceX next Starship launch shows footage of a rendering versus reality of the Super Heavy booster performing its landing burn before being caught by the launch tower's "chopstick" arms.

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Aurora forecast: Will the northern lights be visible tonight?

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By: daisy.dobrijevic@space.com (Daisy Dobrijevic)
November 18th 2024 at 8:38 pm
The latest aurora predictions for tonight help you make sure you're in the right place at the right time to see the northern lights.

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  • Where did the universe's magnetic fields come from?
    How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding problems in astrophysics. Now, researchers have proposed a novel solution: a giant "dust battery" operating when the first stars appeared.
     
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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket to launch AST SpaceMobile's huge BlueBird smartphone satellites

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By: andrew.w.jones@protonmail.com (Andrew Jones)
November 15th 2024 at 6:30 pm
AST SpaceMobile, a startup with plans for a direct-to-cellphone satellite service constellation, has chosen Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket to launch some of its next-gen satellites.

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Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system's planets and moons grew

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November 14th 2024 at 11:30 pm
Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system.

© JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST

Surprised Russian school kids discover Arctic island has vanished after comparing satellite images

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November 13th 2024 at 8:30 pm
The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually bright in the process. It is the most powerful outburst from the city-size oddball in more than three years.

© Alexandra Barymova / Lomonosov Moscow State University Marine Research Center

Mysterious, city-size 'centaur' comet gets 300 times brighter after quadruple cold-volcanic eruption

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November 12th 2024 at 5:30 pm
The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually bright in the process. It is the most powerful outburst from the city-size oddball in more than three years.

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At 60 years, monument to NASA's Project Mercury still stands, but what of its time capsule?

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By: robert@collectspace.com (Robert Z. Pearlman)
November 11th 2024 at 8:30 pm
A 60-year-old tribute to America's first human spaceflight program is standing up to the test of time, but what about the contents of its time capsule not to be opened until 2464?

© Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum

'What's Starlink?' Trump talks Elon Musk, Starship and SpaceX in election night victory speech (video)

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By: brett.tingley@futurenet.com (Brett Tingley)
November 7th 2024 at 12:03 am
President-elect Donald Trump had high words of praise for Elon Musk and SpaceX during his election night victory speech, mentioning twice that he did not know what Starlink satellites were.

© Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Recruiting the world’s first disabled astronaut doesn't mean space travel is inclusive – here’s how to change that

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November 6th 2024 at 7:30 pm
Despite the rapid growth in the number of space travellers, underrepresented population groups are still left behind, particularly those with disabilities. So how can space agencies and “space tourism” companies make spaceflight more inclusive for disabled astronauts?

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Supernova hides in new Hubble Telescope galaxy 'light show' image (photo)

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November 6th 2024 at 2:30 pm
A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

© ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. Fox, L. Jenkins, S. Van Dyk, A. Filippenko, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team, D. de Martin (ESA/Hubble), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)

'Vega continues to be unusual:' Lack of planets around young star puzzles astronomers

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November 5th 2024 at 5:30 pm
A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega has found a surprising lack of planets.

© NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, S. Wolff (University of Arizona), K. Su (University of Arizona), A. Gáspár (University of Arizona)

Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, but it can’t afford any other misfires

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November 1st 2024 at 12:30 am
The partial failure of Starliner’s mission doesn’t help Boeing’s effort to bounce back from its problems. The company’s reputation has not been irreparably damaged, however. Boeing can recover and is taking the right initiatives to re-emphasise a safety culture – something that’s crucial to its business going forward.

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Stare into the 'blood-soaked eyes' of 2 spooky galaxies in new Hubble, JWST images (video)

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By: brett.tingley@futurenet.com (Brett Tingley)
October 31st 2024 at 10:00 pm
Two of the world's most powerful space telescopes have spied a spooky pair of galaxies in deep space, staring out like a pair of "blood-soaked" eyes  just in time for Halloween.

© NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

Can 'failed stars' have planets? James Webb Space Telescopes offers clues

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October 31st 2024 at 12:31 am
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered brown dwarfs at the heart of planet-forming disks in the Orion nebula. The discovery could help reveal if these "failed stars" can have planets.

© NASA/ESA/CSA, Mark McCaughrean/ESA, Massimo Robberto/STScI/JHU, Kevin Luhman/Penn State, Catarina Alves de Oliveira/ESA.

NASA still working to 'correct and rectify' Boeing Starliner issues after 1st test flight with astronauts

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By: elizabeth.howell@futurenet.com (Elizabeth Howell)
October 26th 2024 at 5:30 pm
Boeing's Starliner had propulsion issues after launching on its first test mission with astronauts. Six weeks after the mission concluded, NASA is working on what to do next.

© NASA TV

Apollo 14 astronaut's personal moon-flown Rolex watch sells for record $2.2 million

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By: robert@collectspace.com (Robert Z. Pearlman)
October 26th 2024 at 4:30 pm
A Rolex watch that was flown to the moon is now the most expensive astronaut timepiece to sell at auction. The personal GMT-Master chronometer worn by Edgar Mitchell sold for $2.2 million.

© RR Auction/NASA via collectSPACE.com

Massive, bustling Perseus galaxy cluster dazzles in new telescope image

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October 25th 2024 at 1:30 pm
Deep in the heart of the massive Perseus cluster, giant galaxies stir, stars are torn from their homes and hot gas radiates at more than 1 million degrees Celsius.

© International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Miller and M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab)/T. A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab)/M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)/Jisu Kang (Seoul National University)

Mini '2001' monoliths fly into space on first flight of Blue Origin's 2nd crew ship

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By: robert@collectspace.com (Robert Z. Pearlman)
October 23rd 2024 at 10:30 pm
A number of black slabs modeled after the monoliths in "2001: A Space Odyssey" have made the trip into space and back on the first flight of Blue Origin's second human-rated launch vehicle.

© Blue Origin/Amaranthine Books/collectSPACE.com

How to reduce your carbon footprint when shopping this Black Friday and Cyber Monday

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October 23rd 2024 at 8:30 pm
Be mindful of the environment — there are steps you can take to keep your carbon footprint as low as possible when shopping for Black Friday deals.

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Exclusive: Doritos' 1st ad filmed in space features special 'zero-g' chips (video)

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By: robert@collectspace.com (Robert Z. Pearlman)
October 21st 2024 at 5:30 pm
It is not a sound often heard in Earth orbit, but in the newly released footage of snack and space history being made, it is clearly there. *Crunch* Doritos is releasing its first ad filmed in space.

© Doritos via collectSPACE.com

Star Trek Universe warps into NYCC with sneak peeks at 'Lower Decks' season 5, 'Strange New Worlds' season 3, a date for 'Section 31' and 'Starfleet Academy' season 2

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By: stingrayghost@gmail.com (Jeff Spry)
October 20th 2024 at 3:10 pm
Star Trek showrunners dished on Lower Decks season 5, Strange New Worlds season 3, and a debut date for the Section 31 movie during Paramount Plus' Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic-Con on Oct. 20.

© Paramount+

Hubble Telescope sees 'stellar volcano' erupt in amazing colors (video, photo)

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October 20th 2024 at 1:30 pm
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an intricate portrait of R Aquarii, an odd nearby binary star system that occasionally erupts into spectacular novae.

© NASA, ESA, Matthias Stute , Margarita Karovska , Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble), Mahdi Zamani (ESA/Hubble)

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