Thursday, October 21, 2021

Jupiter hit by another space rock in rare views captured by Japanese skywatchers

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Jupiter hit by another space rock in rare views captured by Japanese skywatchers
(Twitter user @yotsuyubi21)
It's tough to be the biggest planet in the solar system, and this fall Jupiter is taking a beating. On Friday (Oct. 15), skywatchers in Japan observed a flash in the atmosphere of the planet's northern hemisphere likely caused by an asteroid impact.
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South Korea's 1st Nuri rocket fails to reach orbit in debut launch test
(KARI)
South Korea's first launch of its new rocket Nuri reached space, but failed to reach orbit, today during a test flight. Its payload, a dummy satellite, was lost.
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October's full 'Hunter's moon' of 2021 wows skywatchers (photos)
Aubrey Gemignani/NASA
The full moon of Wednesday (Oct. 21), known by many as the "Hunter's Moon," provided a celestial treat for skywatchers around the world.
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Spaceflight
NASA's Lucy asteroid probe settles into Earth-orbiting cruise as engineers tackle solar array glitch
(NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab)
Days after NASA's new Lucy spacecraft launched to a mysterious group of asteroids, mission engineers are battling an issue with one of the probe's two massive solar arrays.
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John Young, NASA's longest-serving astronaut, now has his name on one of the space agency's longest-serving structures. Hangar 276 at Ellington Field near NASA's Johnson Space Center is now named for Young, who died in 2018.
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Could deep-space radiation seriously affect the human brain? A new study on mice offers clues.
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Science & Astronomy
Black hole 'volcanic eruptions' influence vast areas of intergalactic space, study shows
(ASTRON)
Bubbles of gas released by black holes can spread across vast distances of the intergalactic space, affecting star formation thousands of light-years away, a new study shows.
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An alien planet lost its atmosphere to a giant impact
(Mark A. Garlick/MIT)
Astronomers may have for the first time detected evidence that a distant planet had its atmosphere partially blown away by a giant impact, a new study finds.
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Skywatching
How to see Uranus near the full Hunter's Moon in the night sky this week
(SkySafari)
The full Hunter's Moon lights the way to Uranus in the early morning sky this week, and with any luck you may see a "shooting star" while looking for the celestial pair.
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Canon 5D Mark IV review
(Canon)
The Canon 5D Mark IV is an excellent upgrade on its predecessor thanks to its new autofocus system and sensor, wider ISO range, touch screen control and built-in Wi-Fi.
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Entertainment
The Rocinante flies again as Hero Collector's first spaceship model from 'The Expanse' (exclusive)
(Hero Collector)
Here comes the juice! London-based Hero Collector, designers, manufacturers, and publishers of high-end collectibles from across the colorful universe of pop culture is revealing the first entry in its new line of official spaceships from Amazon Prime TV's "The Expanse."
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New York Times bestselling author, YouTube star, international speaker, and popular Twitter personality, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, has a creative eye on the moon in his first dive into fiction with "The Apollo Murders" (Mulholland Books, 2021).
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Astronaut-artist Nicole Stott talks life lessons in orbit that could help us all on Earth in her new book "Back to Earth."
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