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The inaugural launch of Europe's new Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket is today, and you can watch it live. The four-hour launch window opens at 11:00 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) today, July 9. Ariane 6 will lift off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana and exercise three phases to demonstrate its next-generation capabilities.
A team of researchers just announced that a tantalizing planet outside the solar system may have a temperate water ocean about half the size of the Atlantic, all thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Silently drifting into Norway's majestic Trollfjord, flanked by towering mountains, their peaks bathed in golden sunlight, I couldn't believe my eyes. It's almost midnight, yet it feels like the middle of the day. The midnight sun is a truly remarkable phenomenon. The eternal daylight stretches one day into another, if you're not careful, you'll lose all concept of time.
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The NEOWISE mission will end on July 31. Building on the its 14-year success, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor) - the first purpose-built infrared space telescope specifically dedicated to hunting hazardous near-Earth objects - will launch in late 2027.
(Kaiyuan Hou and Zhanxun Dong (School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University))
In the case of the Milky Way at least, the major player in maintaining the warp is the dark matter halo that surrounds the disk and exerts a torque on it.
SpaceX sent Türkiye's first domestically produced communications satellite to orbit today (July 8). A Falcon 9 rocket launched the Turksat 6A spacecraft from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 GMT). The Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth shortly thereafter as planned. It touched down about 8.5 minutes after liftoff on SpaceX's Just Read the Instructions droneship, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
One of the best smart telescopes you can buy, despite it being one of the cheapest in its class. This is the telescope to go for if you want incredible views of the night sky at an entry-level price.
"Venus Prime" is a series of six sci-fi mystery novels by author Paul Preuss, based upon a number of short stories from the legendary Arthur C. Clarke. They center around a young woman with superhuman skills named Sparta and her quest for the reality of her origins while confronting a sinister cult called the Free Spirit. Each book uses one Clarke story as its source material.
