Monday, May 16, 2022

Congress holding UFO hearing Tuesday: Watch it live.

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Super Flower Blood Moon of 2022 wows stargazers around the world
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The stunning total lunar eclipse was the first of 2022 and the longest in 33 years! See what skywatchers saw (and felt) as they watched the lunar spectacle.
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After photo of the Milky Way's monster black hole, scientists dream of videos
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Scientists dream of movies produced by repeatedly imaging the black holes over months and years. Researchers hope such movies will show the evolution of black hole accretion disks as gas flows onto them and how the magnetic fields within the disk become tangled and wound up as they are dragged around the black holes.
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Congress holding UFO hearing Tuesday morning: Watch it live.
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The U.S. Congress will hold a public hearing May 17 on reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) skirting through our skies, and you can watch the proceedings live. It begins at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT).
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Eurovision gets a call from International Space Station astronaut
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The Eurovision 2022 song contest finale got a special call-in Saturday from the International Space Station (ISS) from European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, who hails from this year's host country, Italy. "I am thrilled that Italy is hosting the Eurovision song contest this year when I am up here in space," Cristoforetti said. "I wish you a fantastic evening of music and friendship and we can't wait to discover this year's winner."
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First there was Rosie the Riveter. Now, meet Rosie the Rocketeer. A World War II recruitment campaign icon will be repurposed for spaceflight once again in the form of Rosie the Rocketeer, a dummy astronaut set to take flight this week.
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The U.K. space race is picking up momentum with several spaceports and rocket companies promising to start launching soon. California-based Astra Space, which launched its first successful commercial mission in March this year, has now joined the fray, signing an agreement with a spaceport on Shetland Islands.
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Science & Astronomy
Mars helicopter Ingenuity scouts rocky ridge for Perseverance rover
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s NASA's Martian helicopter recovers from a communications glitch, data from a past flight is showing a Red Planet ridge in high definition. The Ingenuity helicopter captured the rocky outcrop, nicknamed "Fortun Ridge" after a parish in Norway, as a part of its scouting mission for the Perseverance life-seeking rover. Ingenuity imaged the ridgeline on April 23, during its 27th flight on Mars.
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The agency will issue an update to reporters about the InSight Mars lander on Tuesday at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT), and you can listen to the news live on the NASA website. InSight touched down in November 2018 with an ambitious agenda to assess Martian seismic activity, and the mission has delivered. Earlier this month, the mission reported its biggest-ever quake, having detected more than 1,300 since arriving in Elysium Planitia.
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The eruption, which sent devastating tsunamis across the Pacific Ocean on Jan. 15, not only blasted hundreds of millions of tons of volcanic ash into the stratosphere but also generated shockwaves that reached as high as the planet's ionosphere.
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Skywatching
Astronaut snaps lunar eclipse photos from space station
(ESA/Samantha Cristoforetti)
European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti shared several snapshots on Twitter today (May 16), showing different stages of the Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse framed by space station equipment and with cloud-covered Earth below. "Were you lucky enough to be able to see the lunar eclipse last night? We were!" Cristoforetti wrote in one tweet.
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The moon photobombs a sunset in this otherworldly solar eclipse image
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On April 30, skywatchers gathered to watch the sunset over Atacama Desert, Chile, and to witness a much rarer phenomenon: a dazzling solar eclipse.
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Entertainment
Lego's exclusive Ulysses space probe set returns for VIP members May 17!
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You'll have to act fast as this this Lego Ulysses solar probe set is for VIP members only, is free and will disappear quickly.
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'For All Mankind' season 3 trailer sets up three-way race to Mars
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A three-way race to Mars is set to lift off next month with the return of the critically-acclaimed "For All Mankind" and Apple TV Plus has your first extended look.
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