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In a record-breaking discovery, scientists detected our very own sun emitting an extraordinary amount of gamma rays - wavelengths of light known to carry the most energy of any other wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum. "We thought we had this star figured out, but that's not the casee," scientists said.
India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander has returned its first images from the moon after entering orbit around our nearest neighbor. The spacecraft successfully entered orbit around our natural satellite on Aug. 5, according to ISRO.
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Modern astronomy and physics stretch back centuries, so naturally, they've accumulated a lot of interesting names for objects, ideas and phenomena. And let's face it: Some are downright strange.
SpaceX's next Starship rocket just took a big step toward flight. The Starship first-stage prototype known as Booster 9 conducted a static fire test on Aug. 6, briefly igniting its 33 Raptor engines while anchored to the orbital launch mount at SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas.
A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Sunday night at 10:41 p.m. EDT (0241 GMT on Aug. 7). The Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth as planned, landing about 8.5 minutes after liftoff on the SpaceX droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
The X-59 QuessT (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) is an experimental jet that aims to reduce the amount of sonic boom produced by aircraft breaking the sound barrier. This NASA video shows its debut from its Lockheed Martin hangar.
