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• SpaceX replaces Russia on 2 European launches after Ukraine invasion

  20-10-2022 22:56 via space.com
  
  The European Space Agency has chosen SpaceX to replace Russia's space agency to launch two of its missions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
  
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• Seeds launching to the moon in 2025 will test plant resilience

  20-10-2022 22:00 via space.com
  
  The moon is a lifeless rock, but despite no living thing ever having been found on its desolate surface, some forms of Earth life might be able to make it.
  
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• Europe's long-awaited Ariane 6 rocket won't launch before late 2023

  20-10-2022 21:00 via space.com
  
  Europe's new Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket won't launch before late 2023, but Europe is already planning out a future reusable second stage and homegrown astronaut taxis.
  
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• Hubble Space Telescope sees unexpected twin 'tails' from NASA asteroid impact

  20-10-2022 20:00 via space.com
  
  A week or two after a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid, scientists have spotted something unexpected: The space rock has grown two tails.
  
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• Hubble Space Telescope sees unexpected twin 'tails' from impacted asteroid

  20-10-2022 20:00 via space.com
  
  A week or two after a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid, scientists have spotted something unexpected: The space rock has grown two tails.
  
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• This space station astronaut's '2001' cosplay in orbit began with Velcro and thrift store duds (video)

  20-10-2022 19:01 via space.com
  
  European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti did some last-minute shopping as part of her larger bid to promote fun and teamwork in orbit. Food also played a role.
  
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• This space station astronaut's '2001' cosplay in orbit began with Velcro and thrift store duds

  20-10-2022 19:01 via space.com
  
  European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti did some last-minute shopping as part of her larger bid to promote fun and teamwork in orbit. Food also played a role.
  
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• James Webb Space Telescope spies galaxies merging around 'monster' black hole

  20-10-2022 17:00 via space.com
  
  The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a cluster of galaxies merging around a rare red quasar, a "monster" supermassive black hole that is greedily feeding on gas and other material.
  
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• Best rangefinder binoculars in 2022

  20-10-2022 16:31 via space.com
  
  The best rangefinder binoculars provide excellent optical quality and easy-to-use measuring controls but which is best?
  
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• James Webb Space Telescope still performing better than expected despite glitch, micrometeoroids

  20-10-2022 16:00 via space.com
  
  NASA's newest space telescope is hard at work despite an ongoing instrument glitch and continuing small micrometeoroid strikes.
  
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• Stunning timelapse video reveals a decade in the life of the universe

  20-10-2022 15:00 via space.com
  
  NASA's WISE mission has a dramatic view of the universe based on more than a decade of research, gazing into the deep sky with infrared vision.
  
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• Stunning time-lapse video reveals a decade in the life of the universe

  20-10-2022 15:00 via space.com
  
  NASA's WISE mission has a dramatic view of the universe based on more than a decade of research, gazing into the deep sky with infrared vision.
  
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• Amateur Finds New Images of Uranus’ Rings in 35-Year-Old Data

  20-10-2022 14:00 via skyandtelescope.org
  What else is hidden in archival data?
  The post Amateur Finds New Images of Uranus’ Rings in 35-Year-Old Data appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
  
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• Meta Quest 2 review: revisiting the artist formerly known as Oculus

  20-10-2022 13:42 via space.com
  
  Comfortable and relatively compact, the Meta Quest 2 is still the best way to enjoy VR gaming without wires.
  
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• Watch SpaceX launch 54 Starlink satellites and land rocket today

  20-10-2022 13:16 via space.com
  
  SpaceX will expand its Starlink constellation yet again with a launch on Thursday (Oct. 20), and you can watch it live.
  
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• SpaceX launches 54 Starlink more satellites, lands rocket in 100th mission from Florida pad

  20-10-2022 13:16 via space.com
  
  SpaceX continues to expand its Starlink constellation with a launch of 54 satellites on Thursday (Oct. 20).
  
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• Best Star Wars fan films: amateur cinema from a galaxy far, far away

  20-10-2022 12:22 via space.com
  
  Check out our ranking of some Star Wars fan films and amateur shorts influenced by 45 years of lore.
  
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• Electron booster arrives in Virginia for Rocket Lab's 1st-ever US launch

  20-10-2022 12:00 via space.com
  
  A Rocket Lab Electron rocket has arrived at a launch complex in Virginia ahead of the company's first liftoff from U.S. soil later this year.
  
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• Data recorder failure on 30-year-old NASA spacecraft could end magnetic field mission

  20-10-2022 12:00 via space.com
  
  The second and only remaining operational data recorder aboard NASA's magnetosphere-observing Geotail spacecraft has failed, jeopardizing a mission that has been in operation for three decades.
  
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• Watch SpaceX launch 54 Starlink satellites and land rocket on Oct. 20

  20-10-2022 06:01 via space.com
  
  SpaceX will expand its Starlink constellation yet again with a launch on Thursday (Oct. 20), and you can watch it live.
  
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• 25 Oct 2022 (5 days away): New Moon

  20-10-2022 01:34 via in-the-sky.org
  The Moon disappears into the Sun's glare.
  
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• 24 Oct 2022 (4 days away): Leonis Minorid meteor shower 2022

  20-10-2022 01:34 via in-the-sky.org
  The Leonis Minorid meteor shower reaches its peak.
  
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• 23 Oct 2022 (3 days away): Saturn ends retrograde motion

  20-10-2022 01:34 via in-the-sky.org
  Saturn returns to its usual eastward motion after opposition.
  
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• 23 Oct 2022 (3 days away): 136108 Haumea at solar conjunction

  20-10-2022 01:34 via in-the-sky.org
  136108 Haumea is unobservable as it passes around the far side of the Sun.
  
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• 22 Oct 2022 (2 days away): Venus at superior solar conjunction

  20-10-2022 01:34 via in-the-sky.org
  Venus passes around the far side of the Sun.
  
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• 21 Oct 2022 (Tomorrow): Orionid meteor shower 2022

  20-10-2022 01:34 via in-the-sky.org
  The Orionid meteor shower reaches its peak.
  
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