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- 24 Jan 2021
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17:50 UTC
Universe Today
Massive Binary Stars Huddle Up Surprisingly Quickly
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17:20 UTC
National Space Soci...
Book Review: Lunar Outfitters
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16:49 UTC
Space News
SpaceX launches record-setting cluster of smallsats WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 143 small satellites for a wide range of customers Jan. 24 on the company’s first dedicated rideshare mission, a service that poses a ...
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16:11 UTC
SPACE.com
SpaceX launches a record 143 satellites on one rocket, ac...
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15:59 UTC
Cosmic Log
SpaceX puts a record 143 satellites in orbit SpaceX set a record for the number of satellites sent into orbit by a single rocket, and that’s not the only milestone reached during today’s Transporter-1 mission.The Falcon 9 rocket ...
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15:27 UTC
Universe Today
The Largest Sea On Titan Could Be Over 300 Meters Deep
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15:10 UTC
Geekwire
SpaceX puts record 143 satellites in orbit, with Spacefli... SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket rises from its launch pad with 143 satellites on board. (SpaceX via YouTube)SpaceX set a record for the number of satellites sent into orbit by a ...
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14:43 UTC
Parabolic Arc
JAXA Selects Central American Team for KiobCUBE Fifth Rou... Successful deployment of 1KUNS-PF (Kenyan Satellite, selected as first round of KiboCUBE) from Kibo in May, 2018. (Credit: JAXA) TOKYO (JAXA PR) — The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and ...
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13:20 UTC
Parabolic Arc
The 7 Rocky TRAPPIST-1 Planets May Be Made of Similar Stu... Measuring the mass and diameter of a planet reveals its density, which can give scientists clues about its composition. Scientists now know the density of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets with ...
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12:44 UTC
SPACE.com
Apollo landers, Neil Armstrong’s bootprint and other huma...
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12:41 UTC
SPACE.com
South African astronomy has a long, rich history of disco...
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12:39 UTC
SPACE.com
Wormholes may be lurking in the universe — and new studie...
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11:55 UTC
Space News
Hyten: U.S. Space Force is ‘on solid ground’ despite spec... WASHINGTON — What does a change in administration mean for the U.S. Space Force? “I get that question a lot,” Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of ...
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11:27 UTC
Parabolic Arc
V-R3x CubeSats to Development Communications, Navigation Three small satellites, or CubeSats, used in the V-R3x technology demonstration. (Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Dominic Hart) Swarming small satellites to develop the next generation of communication and navigation tech MOFFETT ...
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05:50 UTC
SALT Astronomy
Night Log 2021-01-23 SA: RosalindSO: VeronicaOthers: ------------------------------------------------------------------------Summary------------------------------------------------------------------------ Much of the night was lost due to cloudy weather. We observed six blocks, mostly of low priority, in the last few hours of the night. ...
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17:50 UTC
Universe Today
- 23 Jan 2021
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20:22 UTC
Universe Today
You Can Actually See the Milky Way’s Wave When You Map It...
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19:59 UTC
AmericaSpace
143-Strong Haul of Satellites Set for Sunday SpaceX Launc...
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19:53 UTC
Parabolic Arc
SpaceX Postpones Transporter-1 Launch With Record 143 Sat... Credit: SpaceX SpaceX postponed the Transporter-1 SmallSat Rideshare Program launch with a world record 143 satellite planned for Saturday morning due to inclement weather in Florida. SpaceX has a 22-minute ...
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18:14 UTC
The New York Times
George Carruthers, Whose Telescopes Explored Space, Dies ... George Carruthers, center, in 1971. A telescopic device he designed was used on the Apollo 16 mission to produce images of the geocorona, Earth’s outermost atmosphere, as well as stars, ...
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18:13 UTC
Parabolic Arc
JAXA Funds Tech to Capture Orbital Debris Using a Tether TOKYO — The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is conducting in-orbit demonstration of key components and new elemental technologies using microsatellite as part of the development of innovative basic satellite-related ...
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17:32 UTC
Universe Today
In Theory, Supermassive Black Holes Could get Even More S...
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17:11 UTC
Universe Today
The Universe in Formation. Hubble Sees 6 Examples of Merg...
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15:11 UTC
Behind the Black
SpaceX enters business of drilling for natural gas Capitalism in space: SpaceX has decided to enter the natural gas energy business to help fuel its rockets, and is presently in a legal dispute with another natural gas drilling ...
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15:03 UTC
SPACE.com
SpaceX delays launch of 143 satellites on a single rocket...
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14:02 UTC
Parabolic Arc
Laser Tech from the Netherlands Hitchhikes to Space on No... AMSTERDAM (Netherlands Space Office PR) — Dutch space technology for laser communication will be tested on the Norwegian satellite NorSat-TD, due for launch in 2022. This partnership was stated in ...
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14:00 UTC
astrobites
How fuzzy is the universe? Title: Fuzzy Dark Matter at Cosmic Dawn: New 21-cm ConstraintsAuthors: Olof Nebrin, Raghunath Ghara and Garrelt MellemaFirst Author’s Institution: Department of Astronomy and Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm UniversityStatus: Published in ...
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13:26 UTC
Spaceflight Now
Falcon 9 launch timeline on the Transporter-1 mission SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, heading due south over the Atlantic Ocean on a trajectory hugging the east coast of Florida to ...
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13:16 UTC
Spaceflight Now
Watch a live view of the Falcon 9 rocket on pad 40 (membe... This page is available to Spaceflight Now members onlySupport Spaceflight Now’s unrivaled coverage of the space program by becoming a member. Your monthly or annual membership will help us continue ...
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13:01 UTC
Backreaction
Where do atoms come from?
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12:41 UTC
SPACE.com
Largest sea on Saturn's mysterious moon Titan could be mo...
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12:40 UTC
SPACE.com
How to see the 'Great Hexagon' of bright winter stars thi...
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12:39 UTC
SPACE.com
Warm up with this cozy image of a hot spot on Jupiter
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12:35 UTC
Parabolic Arc
Iodine Thruster Could Slow Space Junk Accumulation Iodine thruster (Credit: ThrustMe) PARIS (ESA PR) — For the first time ever, a telecommunications satellite has used an iodine propellant to change its orbit around Earth. The small but ...
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11:18 UTC
EarthSky Blog
A moon rock decorates Biden’s Oval Office This moon rock – from the Apollo 17 mission to the moon in 1972 – now sits on a bookshelf in President Joe Biden’s Oval Office. Image via NASA.Like any ...
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11:14 UTC
Parabolic Arc
NASA CubeSat to Demonstrate Water-Fueled Moves in Space Illustration of Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-1 spacecraft, demonstrating a water-based propulsion system in low-Earth orbit. (Credits: NASA) Gianine FigliozziNASA’s Ames Research Center MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. (NASA PR) — A NASA CubeSat ...
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10:00 UTC
The New York Times
Six Stars, Six Eclipses: ‘The Fact That It Exists Blows M... The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, launched in 2018, recently observed a sextuply eclipsing sextuple star system 1,900 light-years away.
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05:50 UTC
SALT Astronomy
Night Log 2021-01-22 SA: RosalindSO: VeronicaOthers: ------------------------------------------------------------------------Summary------------------------------------------------------------------------ A productive night with very good, stable seeing. We closed for some time due to clouds but there was no tech downtime. Science data taken for:2018-1-MLT-002 ...
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05:31 UTC
Cosmosphere
What’s Up: January 22-28, 2021 CREDIT: Pamela Gay / Stellarium One of my favorite things to show people this time of year is the trio of the Orion nebula, the Pleiades, and the Hyades cluster. ...
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05:31 UTC
CosmoQuest
What’s Up: January 22-28, 2021 CREDIT: Pamela Gay / Stellarium One of my favorite things to show people this time of year is the trio of the Orion nebula, the Pleiades, and the Hyades cluster. ...
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05:27 UTC
Cosmosphere
Cold Quasar Defines New Stage in Galaxy Evolution IMAGE: A cold quasar (illustrated) is a galaxy going through one last gasp of star formation as its central supermassive black hole wakes up. Within a few hundred million years, ...
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05:27 UTC
CosmoQuest
Cold Quasar Defines New Stage in Galaxy Evolution IMAGE: A cold quasar (illustrated) is a galaxy going through one last gasp of star formation as its central supermassive black hole wakes up. Within a few hundred million years, ...
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05:23 UTC
Cosmosphere
Massive Radio Galaxies Found With MeerKat Telescope As with many things in life, the universe is filled with things you can only see if you look just the right way. Today we’re learning that when it comes ...
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05:23 UTC
CosmoQuest
Massive Radio Galaxies Found With MeerKat Telescope As with many things in life, the universe is filled with things you can only see if you look just the right way. Today we’re learning that when it comes ...
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05:20 UTC
Cosmosphere
New Instrument Reveals Site of Planet Birth Near Young St... IMAGE: The reconstructed image of the dusty disk (left) around the young star HD 163296, derived from the MATISSE observations. The false-colour image shows the thermal radiation from the disk ...
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05:20 UTC
CosmoQuest
New Instrument Reveals Site of Planet Birth Near Young St... IMAGE: The reconstructed image of the dusty disk (left) around the young star HD 163296, derived from the MATISSE observations. The false-colour image shows the thermal radiation from the disk ...
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05:14 UTC
Cosmosphere
Groundbreaking Analysis of Martian Glaciers Reveals Long ... IMAGE: The abundance of boulders that can be found in glaciers on Mars. CREDIT: Joe Levy/Colgate University/MRO Studying our Earth from Space helps us see it as a planet, and ...
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05:14 UTC
CosmoQuest
Groundbreaking Analysis of Martian Glaciers Reveals Long ... IMAGE: The abundance of boulders that can be found in glaciers on Mars. CREDIT: Joe Levy/Colgate University/MRO Studying our Earth from Space helps us see it as a planet, and ...
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05:11 UTC
Cosmosphere
Using Earthquake Forensics to Study Subduction from Space IMAGE: Jonathan Weiss checks the GPS ground motion sensor COLO [Henderson and Pritchard, 2017] on the Altiplano-Puna Plateau of the southern Bolivian Andes. This sensor is part of a dense ...
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05:11 UTC
CosmoQuest
Using Earthquake Forensics to Study Subduction from Space IMAGE: Jonathan Weiss checks the GPS ground motion sensor COLO [Henderson and Pritchard, 2017] on the Altiplano-Puna Plateau of the southern Bolivian Andes. This sensor is part of a dense ...
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05:07 UTC
Cosmosphere
Exploring the Solar Wind With a New View of Small Sun Str... IMAGE: Scientists used image processing on high-resolution images of the Sun to reveal distinct “plumelets” within structures on the Sun called solar plumes. The full-disk Sun and the left side ...
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20:22 UTC
Universe Today