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Category: 2. Space
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Hubble Snaps Beautiful Image of NGC 1309
The Hubble team has released a stunning new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the face-on spiral galaxy NGC 1309.
This Hubble shows NGC 1309, a spiral galaxy some 100 million light-years away in the constellation of…
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Sleepwalking into risk: managing traffic above 60,000 feet
The stratosphere is no longer empty. High-altitude platform and suborbital spaceplane operations are booming, yet our management of “near-space” remains stuck in the last century. We cannot afford to postpone solutions until after a…
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A Hidden Heat Source on Uranus Just Changed What We Know About Planets
Uranus isn’t as cold as it seems — scientists found it’s still leaking ancient heat. Scientists have discovered that Uranus gives off more heat than it takes in from the Sun, revealing that the planet still holds onto internal heat left…
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Astronomers Just Caught a Giant Baby Planet Sculpting Spirals in Space
Astronomers may have captured the rare moment of a planet forming around a young star, HD 135344B, 440 light-years away. Using the powerful ERIS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, they spotted a potential planet embedded in the disc’s…
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China adds new satellites to Guowang constellation, eyes accelerated launch rate
HELSINKI — China launched new Guowang satellites Sunday, expanding its LEO broadband network as part of a growing effort to build a sovereign space internet.
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Methane on a 3000°C Planet? Webb Just Shattered Expectations
Exciting new findings reveal that WASP-121b, a blazing-hot giant planet, may have formed far from its star in a colder, ice-rich region—before migrating inward to its current extreme orbit. Chemical fingerprints point to a frigid birthplace:…
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Melissa John Champions Environmental Stewardship at White Sands
For Melissa John, protecting the environment is her way of contributing to space exploration while preserving the Earth we call home.
As the sustainability program lead at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico, John…
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