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Wednesday, July 10, 2024

SpaceX rivals challenge Starship launch license in Florida over environmental, safety concerns

SpaceX rivals challenge Starship launch license in Florida | Space Quiz! What aids astronomers in their observations of distant celestial objects hidden behind closer, larger cosmic masses, like a galaxy? | The James Webb Space Telescope finds a jeweled ring

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The Launchpad

SpaceX rivals challenge Starship launch license in Florida

(Space.com / Josh Dinner)

SpaceX's plans to launch its Starship-Super Heavy two-stage rocket 44 times per year from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida have come under fire from its two main rivals: United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin.

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Space Quiz! What aids astronomers in their observations of distant celestial objects hidden behind closer, larger cosmic masses, like a galaxy?

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Long exposure photography

Gravitational lensing

Orbital mechanics

Ambient light diffraction

The James Webb Space Telescope finds a jeweled ring

(ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Nierenberg)

A sparkling jeweled ring, created through a cosmic phenomenon called gravitational lensing, has been imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope. The new image captures a distant quasar known as RX J1131-1231, which lies about 6 billion light-years from Earth. The powerful gravitational field of a nearby elliptical galaxy, located in the foreground of the image, warps the light of the quasar - which is an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN) - creating a bright arc and duplicate views of the object, ultimately procuring a visual that looks like gemstones on a ring.

Full Story: Space (7/9)

Skywatching

Saharan dust outbreak lingers across some US states

(NOAA)

From the late spring to early fall, the Saharan Air layer, a large plume of super dry and very dusty air that originates over the Saharan Desert in Africa makes a trek more than 5,000 miles (8,047 kilometers) across the Atlantic toward the United States.

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Spaceflight

Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket launches on debut mission

(JODY AMIET/AFP via Getty Images)

At long last, the Ariane 6 has left the ground. Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket has finally taken flight, carrying the hopes of a continent on its broad back. The Ariane 6 launched for the first time ever today (July 9), lifting off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 3:01 p.m. EDT (1901 GMT). There was a lot riding on this debut: It came a year after the retirement of Ariane 6's predecessor, the workhorse Ariane 5, left Europe unable to launch big satellites on homegrown rockets.

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Science & Astronomy

Uranus 'traffic jams' may solve radiation belt mystery

(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

Scientists may have solved a lingering mystery surrounding the ice giant Uranus and its weak radiation belts. It's possible the belts' weakness is linked to the planet's curiously tilted and lopsided magnetic field; the field could be causing "traffic jams" for particles whipping around the world.

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SpaceX

Super Heavy booster rolls to pad ahead of 5th test flight

(SpaceX)

SpaceX is gearing up for the fifth test flight of its Starship megarocket, which could take place in the next few weeks. The company just rolled Starship's giant first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, out to the launch pad at Starbase, its facility in coastal South Texas. SpaceX documented the move via social media, posting four photos and a 30-second video on X on Tuesday.

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Entertainment

'Futurama' trailer teases fresh new interplanetary antics

(Hulu)

Good news, everyone! Hulu's recent reboot of the witty sci-fi animated series "Futurama" has been greeted with much love, nostalgia, and fanfare and now after last summer's wild Season 11, we're about to board the Planet Express once again for more zany adventures with Fry, Leela, Bender, Professor Farnsworth and the whole 31st century crew.

Full Story: Space (7/9)

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Tuesday, July 9, 2024

James Webb Space Telescope suggests this exoplanet is our 'best bet' at finding an alien ocean

Watch 1st launch of Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket today | Space Quiz! What portion of spiral galaxies have been observed to be warped, or bent? | This exoplanet is our 'best bet' at finding an alien ocean

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The Launchpad

Watch 1st launch of Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket today

(ESA)

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.

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Space Quiz! What portion of spiral galaxies have been observed to be warped, or bent?

Learn the answer here!

This exoplanet is our 'best bet' at finding an alien ocean

(B. Gougeon/Université de Montréal)

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.

Full Story: Space (7/8)

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Skywatching

Chasing the midnight sun along Norway's arctic coastline

(Daisy Dobrijevic)

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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Spaceflight

NASA's NEOWISE asteroid-hunter is about to shut down

(NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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.

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Science & Astronomy

Astronomers measure 'warp speed' of Milky Way galaxy

(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.

Full Story: Space (7/8)

SpaceX

SpaceX launches Türkiye's 1st homegrown comms satellite

(SpaceX)

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.

Full Story: Space (7/8)

Telescopes & Binoculars

Vaonis Vespera II smart telescope review

(Jase Parnell-Brookes)

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.

Full Story: Space (7/9)

Entertainment

'Star Trek' legend Jonathan Frakes to direct new series

"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.

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