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#Astronomy #LightPollution #SpaceExploration
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'This is really intolerable': Astronomers protest giant orbiting mirror project and SpaceX's million AI satellites
"It's absolutely the destruction of a central part of human heritage. "
Astronomers are up in arms, protesting against a proposed constellation of tens of thousands of orbiting mirrors intended to reflect light onto ground-based solar power plants and SpaceX's envisioned one million orbiting data centers.
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#ArtemisAccords #LunarExploration #SpaceSafety
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Artemis Accords nations grapple with how to handle emergencies and 'harmful interference' on the moon
Five years after the Artemis Accords were established, key rules for operating on the moon remain unresolved, including how to respond to emergencies and how to define "safety zones" around lunar activities.
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#CosmicArchaeology #StellarFossils #ChemicalEvolution
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'At the edge of what we thought possible': Astronomers find extremely rare star from ancient universe
"Discoveries like this are cosmic archaeology, uncovering rare stellar fossils that preserve the fingerprints of the universe's first stars.
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#DarkMatter #Neutrinos #Cosmology
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'It would be a fundamental breakthrough': Mysterious dark matter may interact with cosmic 'ghost particles'
An illustration showing a halo of dark matter around a spiral galaxy (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva))
New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic "ghost particles" called neutrinos.
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#DarkMatter #Neutrinos #Cosmology
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'It would be a fundamental breakthrough': Mysterious dark matter may interact with cosmic 'ghost particles'
An illustration showing a halo of dark matter around a spiral galaxy (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva))
New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic "ghost particles" called neutrinos.
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#LunarExploration #BlueMoon #CommercialSpaceflight
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Moon rush: These private spacecraft will attempt lunar landings in 2026
Artist's illustration of Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 1 lander on the lunar surface (Image credit: Blue Origin)
2026 is shaping up to be a spectacular year for lunar exploration, with a growing fleet of commercial missions set to attempt to land on Earth's celestial neighbor.
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Moon rush: These private spacecraft will attempt lunar landings in 2026
Artist's illustration of Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 1 lander on the lunar surface (Image credit: Blue Origin)
2026 is shaping up to be a spectacular year for lunar exploration, with a growing fleet of commercial missions set to attempt to land on Earth's celestial neighbor.
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#LunarExploration #BlueMoon #CommercialSpaceflight
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Moon rush: These private spacecraft will attempt lunar landings in 2026
Artist's illustration of Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 1 lander on the lunar surface (Image credit: Blue Origin)
2026 is shaping up to be a spectacular year for lunar exploration, with a growing fleet of commercial missions set to attempt to land on Earth's celestial neighbor.
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#SpaceDebris #AviationSafety #SpaceExploration
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The risk of falling space junk hitting airplanes is on the rise, experts warn
Space debris is a growing problem, and not just in Earth orbit.
Once a week, on average, a spacecraft (or part of one) falls back into Earth's atmosphere; most of these objects are empty rocket stages, but some are dead satellites whose low orbits finally decayed enough for them to slip into the atmosphere.
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#VLEO #SpaceTechnology #Satellites
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The next frontier in space is closer than you think - welcome to the world of very low Earth orbit satellites
But as more and more satellites are launched into LEO - SpaceX's Starlink internet constellation alone will eventually send many thousands more there - the region's getting a bit crowded.
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The next frontier in space is closer than you think - welcome to the world of very low Earth orbit satellites
But as more and more satellites are launched into LEO - SpaceX's Starlink internet constellation alone will eventually send many thousands more there - the region's getting a bit crowded.
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#NASA #MarsExploration #SpaceScience
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Live long and loiter: Why NASA's ESCAPADE probes will wait a year in space before heading to Mars
An illustration of NASA's twin ESCAPADE probes in orbit around Mars. (Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)
A space saga is underway, a celestial long and winding road that may also have consequences for future settlers firmly planted on the Red Planet.
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#Astrobiology #SpaceResearch #OrganicChemistry
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Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? Research using machine learning offers a new way
When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing.
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Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? Research using machine learning offers a new way
When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing.
