Thursday, October 20, 2022

Stunning timelapse video reveals a decade in the life of the universe

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October 20, 2022
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The Launchpad
SpaceX launches 54 Starlink more satellites, lands rocket in 100th mission from Florida pad
(SpaceX)
Thursday's launch was SpaceX's 48th orbital mission of the year so far.
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Stunning timelapse video reveals a decade in the life of the universe
(NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA)
NASA's WISE mission hasn't let a lack of coolant slow down its infrared observing schedule.
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Data recorder failure on 30-year-old NASA spacecraft could end magnetic field mission
(NASA)
The second and only remaining operational data recorder aboard NASA's magnetosphere-observing Geotail spacecraft has failed, jeopardizing a mission that has been in operation for three decades.
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POLL QUESTION:
While aboard the space station, ESA astronaut and former ISS commander Samantha Cristoforetti donned a costume as a gravity-defying flight attendant from which sci-fi classic?
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Space Deal of the Day
Best Lego deals: Save on Star Wars, Space, Marvel & DC Lego sets
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Looking for the best deals on Lego sets from around the web? You're in the right place. Here at Space.com, we love Lego almost as much as we love space. And thankfully, the two intersect quite often thanks to the amount of space-themed Lego sets there are.
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Science & Astronomy
James Webb Space Telescope spies galaxies merging around 'monster' black hole
(ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, D. Wylezalek, A. Vayner & the Q3D Team, N. Zakamska)
Astronomers have discovered a cluster of galaxies merging around a rare red quasar, a "monster" supermassive black hole that is greedily feeding on gas and other material.
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'Marshmallow' world defies expectations for planets orbiting red dwarf stars
(NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/M. Zamani)
Astronomers have discovered a gas giant planet with the density of a marshmallow orbiting a cool red dwarf star located 580 light-years from Earth. The Jupiter-like exoplanet is the lowest-density world ever observed orbiting a red dwarf.
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Hubble Space Telescope sees unexpected twin 'tails' from NASA asteroid impact
(NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li (PSI); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale)
A week or two after a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid, scientists have spotted something unexpected: The space rock has grown two tails.
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Spaceflight
Electron booster arrives in Virginia for Rocket Lab's 1st-ever US launch
(Rocket Lab)
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket has arrived at a launch complex in Virginia ahead of the company's first liftoff from U.S. soil later this year.
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This space station astronaut's '2001' cosplay in orbit began with Velcro and thrift store duds
(ESA)
Team-building in space requires a lot of Velcro.
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Technology
James Webb Space Telescope still performing better than expected despite glitch, micrometeoroids
(Northrop Grumman)
NASA's newest space telescope is hard at work despite an ongoing instrument glitch and continuing small micrometeoroid strikes.
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Star Wars
Best Star Wars fan films: amateur cinema from a galaxy far, far away
(T7pro)
Check out our ranking of some Star Wars fan films and amateur shorts influenced by 45 years of lore.
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