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Tiny asteroid detected hours before hitting Earth to become 4th 'imminent impactor' of 2024

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By: brett.tingley@futurenet.com (Brett Tingley)
December 3rd 2024 at 8:10 pm
A tiny asteroid measuring some 27 inches (70 cm) wide was detected on a collision course with Earth above Siberia. It is expected to burn up harmlessly on the morning of Dec. 3, 2024.

© ESA/SIO/NOAA/U.S. Navy/NGA/GEBCO

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Satellites spy red-hot lava threaten Iceland's Blue Lagoon

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December 2nd 2024 at 8:28 pm
Satellites watched bright burning lava surge toward Iceland's Blue Lagoon following a volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula.

© NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and VIIRS day-night band data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership.

My go-to telescope for high-definition views of the solar system is this Sky-Watcher refractor with nearly $500 off this Cyber Monday

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By: gemma.lavender@futurenet.com (Gemma Lavender)
December 1st 2024 at 8:43 pm
This Black Friday weekend, the Sky-Watcher EvoStar 120 APO Doublet Refractor is 20% off and is a must-buy if you are a seasoned skywatcher or looking for an upgrade on your current instrument.

© Sky-Watcher

I'm a pro astronomer and have been skywatching for over 25 years. These are the best Black Friday telescope deals I've seen so far

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By: gemma.lavender@futurenet.com (Gemma Lavender)
November 30th 2024 at 8:14 pm
I've tried and tested many telescopes over the years to ensure you're choosing the right kit for you. These top five Black Friday weekend steals offer superb views of planets, galaxies, nebulas and stars.

© Getty

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  • Best mech games of all time
    Giant robots and piloted machines have been popular in science fiction for decades. If you want to be a mech jock yourself, these are the best mech games.
     
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Japan's priceless asteroid Ryugu sample got 'rapidly colonized' by Earth bacteria

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November 27th 2024 at 11:30 pm
A sample of the asteroid Ryugu returned to Earth by the Hayabusa2 mission was rapidly colonized by terrestrial microorganisms, new research has revealed.

© Robert Lea (created with Canva)/NASA/JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, Aizu University, AIST

'Flame-throwing' Guitar Nebula's concert caught by Hubble and Chandra space telescopes (video)

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November 26th 2024 at 8:30 pm
NASA telescope spotted a glowing nebula that looks like a guitar shredding rapid pulses of stellar material through space like soundwaves through a packed concert stadium.

© X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./M. de Vries et al.; Optical: (Hubble) NASA/ESA/STScI and (Palomar) Hale Telescope/Palomar/CalTech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare

'We didn't know what it was at first.' NASA aircraft uncovers site of secret Cold War nuclear missile tunnels under Greenland ice sheet

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By: brett.tingley@futurenet.com (Brett Tingley)
November 25th 2024 at 10:27 pm
NASA scientists conducting surveys of arctic ice sheets in Greenland got an unprecedented view of an abandoned "city under the ice" built by the U.S. military during the Cold War.

© NASA/US Army/Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Strange 'zebra' patterns are coming from the Crab Nebula — this physicist finally figured out why

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By: conor.feehly94@gmail.com (Conor Feehly)
November 25th 2024 at 5:30 pm
There are strange "zebra" patterns coming from the Crab Nebula, and the reason has to do with plasma refraction.

© ESA/Herschel/PACS/MESS Key Programme Supernova Remnant Team; NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University)

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  • Best Predator games of all time
    If it bleeds, we can kill it. But what about donning the mask and playing as the alien hunter instead? These are the best Predator video games.
     
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Flight suit worn on 1st all-private astronaut mission to ISS debuts on display

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By: robert@collectspace.com (Robert Z. Pearlman)
November 22nd 2024 at 7:30 pm
When Michael Lopez-Alegria commanded the first privately funded crewed mission to visit the International Space Station, he traded his NASA "blues" for a "Deep Space" and "Mesosphere" flight suit.

© Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

Unusual black hole light bursts puzzle astronomers: 'We are finding a lot of weird stuff'

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November 22nd 2024 at 5:30 pm
Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of massive black holes in a distant galaxy that are triggering unusual bursts of light that may be caused by the black hole duo disrupting a massive gas cloud — a phenomenon researchers say is the first of its kind to be detected.

© NASA/Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State University

James Webb Space Telescope unveils surprising 'Red Monsters' in the early universe

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By: capellalarissa68@hotmail.com (Larissa G. Capella)
November 21st 2024 at 10:30 pm
Three ultramassive galaxies found by the James Webb Space Telescope have astronomers reconsidering how galaxies grew so quickly in the first billion years after the Big Bang.

© NASA/CSA/ESA, M. Xiao & P. A. Oesch (University of Geneva), G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute), Dawn JWST Archive

'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.

© SpaceX/collectSPACE.com

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.

© SpaceX

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.

© <a href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/search/photographer?photographer=Westend61" rel="nofollow">Westend61 via </a>Getty Images

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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.

© Blue Origin

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.

© NASA/Spitzer Space Telescope 

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?

© ESA/Novespace

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)

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