Astronomy news

• SpaceX launching 23 Starlink satellites to orbit early Aug. 2

  01-08-2024 23:00 via space.com
  
  SpaceX will launch 23 more of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Friday (Aug. 2), continuing the company's bounceback from a July 11 failure.
  
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• SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (video, photos)

  01-08-2024 23:00 via space.com
  
  SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Friday (Aug. 2), continuing the company's bounceback from a July 11 failure.
  
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• SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (photos)

  01-08-2024 23:00 via space.com
  
  SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Friday (Aug. 2), continuing the company's bounceback from a July 11 failure.
  
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• SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida

  01-08-2024 23:00 via space.com
  
  SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Friday (Aug. 2), continuing the company's bounceback from a July 11 failure.
  
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• Never played the Borderlands games? Here's what you need to know ahead of the Borderlands movie

  01-08-2024 22:00 via space.com
  
  Don't know your Claptrap from your Handsome Jack? Here's everything you need to know about the Borderlands video games before seeing the movie.
  
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• Could galaxy cluster collisions be used as dark matter detectors?

  01-08-2024 21:00 via space.com
  
  Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider have failed to turn up potential dark matter candidates, but could galaxy cluster smashes be used as cosmic dark matter colliders?
  
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• 'Cosmic dawn:' NASA's Roman Space Telescope will get baby pictures of our universe

  01-08-2024 20:00 via space.com
  
  NASA's Roman Space Telescope will look all the way back to cosmic dawn 400 million years after the Big Bang to discover how the universe fundamentally changed at this crucial point in its history.
  
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• This mesmerizing NASA animation shows how carbon dioxide moves through Earth's atmosphere (video)

  01-08-2024 19:00 via space.com
  
  A high-resolution visualization from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio shows global carbon dioxide emissions from January to March 2020.
  
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• On this day in space! August 1, 1774: Oxygen is discovered!

  01-08-2024 18:00 via space.com
  
  On August 1, 1774, natural philosopher Joseph Priestley was working with gases when he discovered oxygen.
  
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• If we want to settle on other planets, we’ll have to use genome editing to alter human DNA

  01-08-2024 18:00 via space.com
  
  It sounds like science fiction, but many scientists believe editing the human genome is key to our advancement across the solar system.
  
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• Saturn threw a comet out of the solar system at 6,700 mph. Here's how

  01-08-2024 17:38 via space.com
  
  Astronomers have discovered that Saturn has thrown a newly found comet on its way out of the solar system. Comet A117uUD is expected to go interstellar at 6,700 mph.
  
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• Space pictures! See our space image of the day

  01-08-2024 17:17 via space.com
  
  Space.com's image of the day rounds up the most awe-inspiring space photos right here, with a new image everyday.
  
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• What do Yoda and Darth Plagueis cameos mean for the future of 'Star Wars: The Acolyte'?

  01-08-2024 17:00 via space.com
  
  We closely examine Darth Plagueis and Yoda's cameos in the finale of 'The Acolyte' and try to figure out how they might be used in the future.
  
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• New Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle features 'most accurate details' in a Lego set

  01-08-2024 16:30 via space.com
  
  There is a moment when building Lego's new NASA-inspired set that the assembly goes from looking like plastic bricks to being a moon buggy. Then you realize you're not even a quarter of the way done.
  
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• After ISS: The private space station era is dawning

  01-08-2024 12:00 via space.com
  
  As the end of the ISS looms on the horizon, NASA and private space companies are looking forward to the era of private space stations and what it will mean for humanity's presence in low Earth orbit.
  
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• 06 Aug 2024 (5 days away): The Moon at perihelion

  01-08-2024 01:01 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon passes its orbit's closest point to the Sun, which happens each month around the time of new moon.
  
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• 06 Aug 2024 (5 days away): Conjunction of the Moon and Mercury

  01-08-2024 01:01 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon and Mercury share the same right ascension, at a separation of 7°28'.
  
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• 06 Aug 2024 (5 days away): Asteroid 16 Psyche at opposition

  01-08-2024 01:01 via in-the-sky.org
  
  Asteroid 16 Psyche makes closest approach to the Earth.
  
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• 05 Aug 2024 (4 days away): Conjunction of the Moon and Venus

  01-08-2024 01:01 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon and Venus share the same right ascension, at a separation of 1°44'.
  
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• 04 Aug 2024 (3 days away): New Moon

  01-08-2024 01:01 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Moon disappears into the Sun's glare for a few days.
  
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• 06 Aug 2024 (5 days away): Asteroid 7 Iris at opposition

  01-08-2024 01:01 via in-the-sky.org
  
  Asteroid 7 Iris makes closest approach to the Earth.
  
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