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Moon blockades, comet PANSTARRS, auroras and more! This Tuesday is already shaping up to be a busy day in outer space. Check out what's big in space this week below!
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 25 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from California on Sunday (April 26). It was the company's 50th liftoff of the year already.
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The ion tail appeared as Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS was about 45 million miles from Earth (72 million kilometers) during its closest approach.
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An unusually powerful pulsating aurora display lit up skies over Arctic Norway for nearly three hours during a colossal geomagnetic storm.
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By peering deep inside Orion's star-forming gas clouds, radio astronomers have been able to directly measure the masses of young binary stars, confirming that our theoretical models are on the right lines.
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"With the James Webb Space Telescope now revealing more supermassive black holes in the early universe, this mechanism may help bridge the gap between theory and observation."
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This eerie image shows the heat shield following splashdown.
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"We're on an express elevator to hell, goin' down!"
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And that's it for our space update today!
Stay tuned for tomorrow, when we'll see SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launch the Viasat-3 F3 communications satellite (following a weather scrub on Monday).
Keep looking up!
Chelsea Gohd
Content Manager, Space.com
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