When Canadian and European Space Agency leaders reaffirmed their commitment to work together in June, leaders focused their public remarks primarily on shared exploration goals and decades of fruitful partnership.
Category: 2. Space
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Ice in a million-degree Fermi bubble reveals the Milky Way’s recent eruption
Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds — or Fermi bubbles — at the Milky Way’s center. The finding challenges current models of Fermi bubble formation and reveals that the bubbles are much…
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Mysterious 'Dark Dwarfs' may be hiding at the heart of the Milky Way
A new kind of cosmic object could help solve one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter.
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Synspective signs multi-launch agreement with Exolaunch
TOKYO — Synspective, a Japanese company developing a radar imaging constellation, has signed an agreement with Exolaunch to launch 10 of the company’s satellites.
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Dying Star’s Strangled Jets Solve 50-Year-Old X-Ray Mystery : ScienceAlert
Jets that failed to punch through the outer shell of a dying star are the sources of mysterious X-ray flashes that have puzzled astronomers for decades.
A new study of a star undergoing the throes of a supernova death has revealed that bursts…
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Hubble’s Warped Wonderland: Abell 209 Bends Space and Unmasks Dark Matter
Hubble’s latest portrait zooms into Abell 209, a colossal galaxy cluster 2.8 billion light-years away whose gravity bends spacetime itself. Beyond the glittering hundred-plus galaxies lies an invisible stew of X-ray-hot gas and dark matter that…
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Harvard Scientists Grow Algae in Mars-Like Conditions, Paving Way for Space Habitats
Researchers show algae can grow in Mars-like atmospheric pressure conditions. If humans are ever to establish permanent settlements beyond Earth, they will need to build habitable structures. However, transporting large quantities of industrial…
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Astronomers Spot “Death Wish” Planet That’s Slowly Killing Itself
A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star magnetic interaction. Astronomers working with the European Space Agency’s Cheops mission have observed an exoplanet that…
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Civilian and Military Radar Leakage is Revealing Our Existence to Alien Civilizations, Study Suggests
In a new study, a team of researchers from the University of Manchester performed comprehensive simulations of Earth’s radar systems as potential technosignatures detectable by extraterrestrial observers. While SETI traditionally focuses on…
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