Thursday, May 5, 2022

Watch SpaceX's Crew-3 astronauts return to Earth tonight

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May 5, 2022
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The Launchpad
SpaceX's Crew-3 astronauts returning to Earth tonight
(NASA TV)
SpaceX's Crew-3 mission for NASA is headed home to Earth to return four astronauts home and end a six-month voyage in space. Splashdown is at 12:43 am ET on Friday, May 6, off the coast of Florida.
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The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is the legacy of Halley's Comet in the night sky
(Vcg/Getty Images)
In a way, I guess you can call them "rock stars," but eventually, they fall down to Earth. Here's how to see the Eta Aquarid meteor shower this weekend!
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Satellites watch record-breaking fires ravage New Mexico
(Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview)
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite snapped an aerial view of the wildfires on Tuesday (May 3). The natural-color image captures large plumes of smoke billowing over Los Alamos and the neighboring city of Las Vegas, New Mexico.
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The 1st solar eclipse of 2022 is stunning in satellite views
(NOAA)
Satellites in space and some Earth observatories caught a spectacular views of the first solar eclipse of 2022 on April 30. Check them out!
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Spaceflight
Watch SpaceX launch a Falcon 9 rocket on a record-tying 12th flight Friday
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will fly its record-tying 12th space mission this Friday (May 6), and you can watch the action live. Liftoff is scheduled for Friday (May 6) at 5:42 a.m. EDT (0942 GMT).
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Stratolaunch aces 5th test flight with giant hypersonic aircraft carrier
(Stratolaunch)
The Roc carrier aircraft, the biggest airplane ever built, completed its fifth test flight on Star Wars Day to test its hypersonic aircraft toting boom.
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Astronaut Scott Kelly's second "Dreams Out Of This World" NFT drop features photos that he took took in orbit from the International Space Station.
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Cady Coleman, Tony Antonelli and Susan Kilrain may or may not be foodies, but they can now say they have played one on TV. The three former NASA astronauts, who are more experts on space food than they are on fine cuisine, are guest judges on the next episode of "Top Chef."
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Science & Astronomy
Dark Energy Camera sees 'galactic ballet' in stunning photo
(Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
The Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile trained its lenses on the Horologium constellation some 60 million light-years from Earth. There, it captured an image of galaxies NGC 1512 and NGC 1510, which are ensnared in each other's gravitational pull.
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The fast-spinning pulsar hungrily feeding on a close companion star 3,000 light-years away is a rare type of cannibalistic system known as a black-widow binary.
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The sun's gravitational field could be used as a giant magnifying glass to observe distant exoplanets in a much greater detail than is currently possible, a new study suggests.
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Skywatching
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower of 2022 is peaking now
(Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Your best bet to see shooting stars early Friday, May 6, is to get up after midnight once the moon sets.
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In this guide, we'll cover everything you need to know in order to take stunning lunar eclipse images. We'll explain what sort of equipment you'll need to pack, which settings to use and how to focus your camera.
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Star Trek
'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' warps onto TV today!
(Gallery Press)
The "Star Trek: Discovery" spinoff "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" arrives on Paramount Plus today (May 5) with a retro flair and an old-fashioned style that harkens back to Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's vision for the iconic sci-fi series as an episodic "Wagon Train To The Stars."
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'Star Trek: Picard' Season 2 episode 9 leaves a lot to be concluded in finale
(Paramount Plus)
Picard season 2's penultimate episode is a well-paced one that, despite quite a few plot holes, is still so much better than this point in Season 1
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