Earth sets record for the shortest day | Did Russia just launch a spacecraft to stalk a US spy satellite? | European Space Agency recruits Shaun (the sheep) for Artemis 1 moon mission
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Scientists have recorded Earth's shortest day since its rotational period began to be recorded with highly precise atomic clocks: On June 29, 2022, Earth's spin was completed in 1.59 milliseconds under 24 hours.
Shaun, the title character from the animated television series "Shaun the Sheep," has been assigned a space on NASA's Artemis 1 mission, targeted for launch later this month.
Shaun the Sheep - in plush doll form - will fly well beyond the moon on NASA's uncrewed Orion spacecraft prior to returning to Earth in a little over a month's time. What was the name of the first mammal to fly into space?
This year, the meteor shower will peak on Aug. 12 and 13, which just so happens to conflict with the full moon, whose bright light will make it difficult to see the meteors shooting across the night sky.
A new hypothesis proposes that a large fraction of dark matter may be bound up inside tight balls the size of Neptune - so-called dark matter planets. But while those planets would remain invisible to us, they might collect atmospheres of helium and hydrogen that could undergo nuclear fusion, giving us a major clue to their presence.
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The Sierra Club's Brownsville organizer, Emma Guevara, stated the appeal is taking place because the beach is closed weekly to allow "a billionaire [to] launch deadly rockets near homes and wildlife."
On Monday (Aug. 1), a group of eight researchers and their associates headed north to the high Arctic to spend a month at the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) base on Devon Island, about 15 degrees south of the North Pole.
As a first binocular for young astronomers, the Celestron Cometron 7x50 binoculars excel. As a grab 'n' go, "don't really care if they get trashed," second set of binoculars for adults, the Cometrons are without equal.
A small lunar sample and a piece of the rocket that enabled its collection more than 50 years ago are set to launch on NASA's next mission back to the moon.
