Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Amazon Prime Day 2024: Best space gift deals for October Prime

Amazon Prime Day deals 2024: What to expect this year | Pococo Galaxy Projector now 20% off! | This telescope Prime Day deal is ideal for beginners
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October 8, 2024
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Amazon Prime Day deals 2024: What to expect this year
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This year we've got big discounts on telescopes, cameras, binoculars, Lego, Star Wars gear and more. Get them vbefore they're gone!
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Pococo Galaxy Projector now 20% off!
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Save 20% on the Pococo Galaxy star projector ahead of Amazon Prime Day (Big Deal Days): The lowest price in over six months on one of the best star projectors we've tested.
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Spaceflight
Hurricane Milton delays astronauts' homecoming to Oct. 13
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NASA and SpaceX originally targeted Monday morning (Oct. 7) for the departure of the Crew-8 mission from the International Space Station. However, Crew-8 is scheduled to splash down off the coast of Florida, a region presently under threat from Milton, which intensified into a Category 5 hurricane on Monday before weakening slightly to a Category 4 storm on Tuesday. So, the undocking date has been pushed back several times, most recently to Sunday (Oct. 13).
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Satellite images capture Hurricane Milton intensifying
(CSU/CIRA & NOAA)
In the heart of the Gulf of Mexico, a new hurricane is brewing. Hurricane Milton, now having intensified into a Category 5 storm, was caught in incredible space-based imagery from spacecraft such as the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's GOES-East satellite.
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Science & Astronomy
JWST studies dusty 'pancakes' feeding baby stars
(National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ))
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have gained a more detailed picture of the turbulent "pancakes" of gas and dust surrounding young stars, feeding them and facilitating their growth before birthing planets.
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SpaceX
SpaceX rocket snaps amazing views of Earth
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket snapped a pretty special in-space selfie on Monday (Oct. 7). The shot, captured during the launch of the European Space Agency's Hera asteroid-inspecting mission, shows a gorgeous blue Earth hanging in space beside the nozzle of the Falcon 9's upper-stage Merlin engine. Earth looks smaller than it typically does in such launch photos, because it's quite far away from the camera: The upper stage was heading toward interplanetary transfer orbit, where it ended up deploying Hera successfully about 76 minutes after liftoff.
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Technology
4 futuristic technologies — and when they might happen
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World Space Week this year, which runs between Oct. 4 and Oct. 10,is celebrating how space technology is aiding us in our fight against climate change on Earth - but sometimes it pays to also look outward at what technology can offer us as we expand into space to harness the energy and the worlds that lie out there.
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