Space photo of the week: Stare into the ‘bloodshot eyes’ of a haunting galaxy pair
JWST and Hubble’s brand-new composite image reveals the galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 with bright-red “blood-soaked” eyes. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI) What it is: The spiral nebula…
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As ABL Space departs launch, the 1-ton rocket wars have a clear winner
“Take a look around,” Piemont composed. “US rockets fly every couple of days, with perfect success. It’s revolutionary. While there is still a need for more providers in certain market…
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Earth from space: Giant ‘phantom lake’ dotted with stripy gold islands shimmers in Australian outback
Oddly stripy, golden islands are littered across Lake Mackay in the Australian outback. When the ephemeral lake fills with water, these islands stand out against the blue-green background. (Image credit:…
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Space Force’s mysterious X-37B begins ‘aerobraking’ to lower orbit. Here’s how it works.
The U.S. armed force’s extremely deceptive X-37B area airplane simply got a little less mystical. In an unusual program of openness about the area airplane’s operations, Boeing and the U.S….
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Space policy is about to get pretty wild, y’all
Saddle up, area cowboys. It might get rough for a while. President Donald Trump actions on the phase at Kennedy Space Center after the effective launch of the Demo-2 team…
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US Space Force warns of “mind-boggling” build-up of Chinese capabilities
Both Russia and China have actually evaluated satellites with abilities that consist of grappling hooks to pull other satellites out of orbit and “kinetic kill automobiles” that can target satellites…
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Earth from space: Massive blue ‘melt pond’ in Arctic glacier is an eerie sign of things to come
NASA’s ER-2 aircraft found the enormous melt pond after it appeared on an unnamed glacier in Alaska. Its lively blue color is an outcome of how the immersed ice takes…
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Space photo of the week: Hubble spots a stellar ‘H-bomb’ exploding in Aquarius at 1 million mph
This Hubble Space Telescope image includes the binary star system R Aquarii. (Image credit: Image credit: NASA, ESA, Matthias Stute, Margarita Karovska, Davide De Martin(ESA/Hubble ), Mahdi Zamani(ESA/Hubble)) What it…
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Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope spots the ultimate ‘super star cluster’ deep in the Milky Way
JWST’s view of Westerlund 1, among the closest “super star” clusters to the planetary system. (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M.Zamani(ESA/Webb), M. G. Guarcello(INAF-OAPA)and the EWOCS group) What it…
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Top-secret X-37B space plane will execute ‘never-before-seen maneuvers’ on its descent to Earth
The X-37B will participate in “aerobraking” — a series of regulated descents into Earth’s environment. This will quickly and unexpectedly alter its orbit. (Image credit: Boeing Space) A trick, speculative…
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