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Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Solar flare blasts out strongest radiation storm since 2017

Solar flare blasts out strongest radiation storm since 2017 | Space Quiz! About how bright is Polaris (the North Star) in the night sky? | Starliner astronaut mission extended through June 18

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June 11, 2024

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Solar flare blasts out strongest radiation storm since 2017

(NASA/SDO)

It's the sunspot region that just does not want to quit! Beastly sunspot AR3697 has made headlines again just before it makes another exit. The sunspot region, formerly known as AR3664, produced the historic geomagnetic storm that led to May's global auroras.

Full Story: Space (6/10)

Space Quiz! About how bright is Polaris (the North Star) in the night sky?

Learn the answer here!

Starliner astronaut mission extended through June 18

(NASA)

The first astronaut mission of Boeing's Starliner capsule will last a bit longer than we'd thought. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the orbiting lab on June 6 for a roughly week-long stay - or so we thought. The duo, and Starliner, will actually get to spend a few more days off Earth, NASA announced over the weekend.

Full Story: Space (6/10)

Skywatching

The Blazer Star could ignite in the sky any night now

(NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

A dim star in the night sky 3,000 light-years from our solar system could soon become visible to the naked eye for the first time since 1946 - and you can easily find it in the night sky.

Full Story: Space (6/10)

Spaceflight

Chang'e 6 mission carried stone flag to the moon's far side

(CNSA/CLEP/CCTV)

About that five-star red flag now in position on the far side of the moon - it's made of basalt, a type of volcanic rock that's plentiful on the lunar surface (as well as here on Earth). That flag measures 300 millimeters by 200 millimeters (11.8 by 7.9 inches), about the size of an A4 sheet of paper. Weighing only 11.3 grams (0.4 ounces), the far side flag is similar in size to the one carried by China's Chang'e 5 lander.

Full Story: Space (6/11)

Science & Astronomy

'Super rhino' black holes lived seconds after Big Bang

(Kaća Bradonjić)

Tiny primordial black holes created during the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang may have had company, in the form of even smaller "supercharged" black holes with the mass of a rhino that rapidly evaporated. A team of researchers has theorized that these tiny "rhino" black holes, which would represent an entirely new state of matter, would have been packed to the brim with "color charge." This is a property of fundamental particles called quarks and gluons that's related to their strong force interactions with each other, and it is not related to "color" in the everyday sense.

Full Story: Space (6/10)

Technology

Take a video tour of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft

(NASA)

Williams begins the tour on the ISS with Wilmore behind the camera, pointing to the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), nicknamed Kibo, on the port side of the space station. She then indicates Europe's Columbus module on the ISS' starboard side before passing down the Pressurized Mating Adapter (PMA), which links spacecraft like Starliner to the ISS, moving to the docking adapter and finally into Starliner.

Full Story: Space (6/10)

Telescopes & Binoculars

'Stellar Dreams' gifting 100 telescopes to 100 families

(The Science Haven)

An illuminating new program has stargazers and science educators aglow with inspiration. That program, called Stellar Dreams, is run by the nonprofit organization The Science Haven. It will give away 100 telescopes, with the goal of spurring interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) in underrepresented and underprivileged families.

Full Story: Space (6/9)

Entertainment

Exclusive sneak peek at 'Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 3'

(Abrams ComicArts)

Adding to the recent Dune resurgence are the gorgeous hardback "Dune: The Graphic Novel" releases from Abrams ComicArts, accented with the fine work of artists Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín. These deluxe presentations were released as "Book 1" in 2020 and "Book 2: Muad'Dib" in 2022. Now the third and final chapter of this lavishly illustrated translation, "Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 3: The Prophet" is ready to flow this summer like the consciousness-enhancing spice of Arrakis.

Full Story: Space (6/9)

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Да, это гигантская утрата. Сергей Петрович был и останется в нашей
памяти как великий математик и замечательный человек.
Светлая память
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Цитирую Nail Inogamov <nailinogamov@gmail.com>:

> Уважаемые дорогие коллеги,
>
> потрясен сообщением о кончине Сергея Петровича Новикова..
> невозможно описать словами громадное значение этого человека..
> С большим уважением
> Ваш НА Иногамов
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> ср, 5 июн. 2024 г. в 21:08, Serge Krashakov <sakr@itp.ac.ru>:
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>> Уважаемые коллеги!
>>
>> На заседании Ученого совета ИТФ в пятницу 7 июня в 11:30 будут заслушаны 2
>> доклада:
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>> 1) Максим Шустин
>> *Topological phases induced by charge fluctuations in Majorana wires*
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>> The influence of many-body interactions on topological phases is one of
>> the problems that still remains urgent in modern condensed-matter theory.
>> In this study we address this issue within perturbative theory framework by
>> considering topological phase transitions related to charge correlations in
>> the extended Kitaev chain model that belongs to the BDI symmetry class.
>> Obtained corrections to a zero-frequency quasiparticle Green's function
>> allow to separate the mean-field and fluctuation contributions to a total
>> winding number. As a result, the phase transitions caused solely by the
>> latter are unveiled. We thoroughly analyze the mechanism of such
>> transitions in terms of fluctuation-induced nodal points and spectrum
>> renormalization. Additionally, features of other quasiparticle properties
>> such as effective mass and damping are discussed in the context of
>> topological phase transitions.
>> Phys. Rev. B 109, 075435 (2024).
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>>
>> 2) А.О. Короткевич
>> *Прямой каскад турбулентности капиллярных волн: численное моделирование*
>> (короткий доклад)
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>> Приводятся результаты большого массива экспериментов по моделированию
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Monday, June 10, 2024

SpaceX wants to build 1 Starship a day at new Starfactory

Water frost on Mars discovered near equator | SpaceX wants to build 1 Starship a day at new Starfactory | Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who captured iconic 'Earthrise' photo from the moon, killed in plane crash

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June 10, 2024

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Water frost on Mars discovered near equator

(ESA/DLR/FU Berlin)

Water frost has been spotted at the equator of Mars for the first time. "We thought it was impossible for frost to form around Mars' equator," one scientist says. "Its existence here is exciting, and hints that there are exceptional processes at play that are allowing frost to form."

Full Story: Space (6/10)

SpaceX wants to build 1 Starship a day at new Starfactory

(SpaceX)

"When you step into this factory, it is truly inspirational. My heart jumps out of my chest," Kate Tice, manager of SpaceX Quality Systems Engineering, said during the same livestream. "Now this will enable us to increase our production rate significantly as we build toward our long-term goal of producing one Ship per day and coming off the production line soon, Starship Version Two."

Full Story: Space (6/8)

Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who captured iconic 'Earthrise' photo from the moon, killed in plane crash

(HUM Images/Getty Images)

Bill Anders, who as an Apollo 8 astronaut was one of the first people to fly to the moon in 1968, was killed on Friday (June 7) when the vintage plane he was piloting crashed off the coast of the San Juan Islands in northwest Washington State. "The family is devastated," said his son Greg Anders. "He was a great pilot. He will be missed."

Full Story: Space (6/8)

Space Quiz! How many orbits of Earth did SpaceX's Starship Flight 4 make?

Find the answer here!

Spaceflight

Virgin Galactic launches Unity space plane on final flight

(Virgin Galactic)

Virgin Galactic launched six people to suborbital space on Saturday (June 8), launching a Turkish astronaut and three space tourists on what was the final voyage of the VSS Unity space plane. "This vehicle was revolutionary," Virgin Galactic president Mike Moses said. "We tested it, we flew it, we demonstrated and prove to the world that commercial human spaceflight is possible with private funding for private companies." Find out what comes next.

Full Story: Space (6/7)

This Week In Space podcast: Starliners & Starships

(TWIS)

Well, we waited, we waffled, and we joked... but Boeing's Starliner finally made good! Seven or so years after their projected crewed flight date, the second provider of crew delivery to the International Space Station finally succeeded in sending two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, to the ISS. Then, just a day later, SpaceX launched a Starship on a fourth test flight with spectacular results--and may be ready for another test launch within a few weeks.

Full Story: Space (6/9)

Science & Astronomy

When was the Milky Way's last big galactic cannibalism act?

(ESA/Gaia/DPAC, T Donlon et al. 2024; Background Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds: Stefan Payne-Wardenaar)

New findings from the Gaia space telescope indicate the Milky Way may have cannibalized a small galaxy not too long ago, cosmically speaking. In fact, the last major collision between our galaxy and another seems to have occurred billions of years later than previously suspected.

Full Story: Space (6/10)

NASA's wants new ideas for troubled Mars Sample Return

(NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA has selected 10 studies aimed at finding more affordable and quicker means of retrieving samples collected from the Martian surface and returning them to Earth. Yes, one of them is from SpaceX and calls for sending Starship to Mars.

Full Story: Space (6/7)

SpaceX

Astronauts test SpaceX Starship fit for Artemis 3 spacesuits

(SpaceX)

To prepare for the Artemis 3 moon-landing mission, two astronauts donned Axiom Space's new spacesuits and for the first time tested out a mock version of the vehicle that will get them to the moon: SpaceX's Starship. Find out the result.

Full Story: Space (6/9)

Entertainment

Doctor Who 'Dot and Bubble' space slugs explained

(BBC/Disney Plus)

There's trouble in paradise — and for the social media-obsessed residents of Finetime, it runs much deeper than wearing the wrong outfit. In the fifth episode of "Doctor Who," called"'Dot and Bubble," a city has been invaded by giant, human-eating space slugs, and they seem to have a plan.

Full Story: Space (6/7)