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• How to watch SpaceX's Crew-9 astronaut launch for NASA on Sept. 28

  26-09-2024 22:30 via space.com
  
  SpaceX plans to launch the Crew-9 astronaut mission for NASA on Saturday (Sept. 28), and you can watch the action live online.
  
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• This exoplanet circling a dead star may mirror Earth's fate — if our planet survives a dying sun, that is

  26-09-2024 20:00 via space.com
  
  A newly discovered Earth-size world orbiting a dead white dwarf star gives scientists a hint of what the solar system may look like in billions of years.
  
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• Exoplanet orbiting dead star offers possible glimpse into Earth's future

  26-09-2024 20:00 via space.com
  
  A newly discovered Earth-size world orbiting a dead white dwarf star gives scientists a hint of what the solar system may look like in billions of years.
  
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• 'That's weird': James Webb Space Telescope spies a strange galaxy outshining its stars

  26-09-2024 19:00 via space.com
  
  An oddball galaxy in the early universe shines so brightly it outshines its stars.
  
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• Satellites images show Hurricane Helene gaining strength before Florida landfall (video)

  26-09-2024 18:56 via space.com
  
  Hurricane Helene will make landfall in Florida on Thursday evening (Sept. 26), and satellite footage is capturing it along its path.
  
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• Satellite images show Hurricane Helene gaining strength before Florida landfall (video)

  26-09-2024 18:56 via space.com
  
  Hurricane Helene will make landfall in Florida on Thursday evening (Sept. 26), and satellite footage is capturing it along its path.
  
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• Watch Hurricane Helene from space in live NASA views from ISS (video)

  26-09-2024 18:48 via space.com
  
  NASA is streaming live views of Hurricane Helene today (as it approaches the U.S. Gulf Coast and you can watch it live online.
  
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• Watch Hurricane Helene approach Florida in this NASA video from the ISS

  26-09-2024 18:48 via space.com
  
  NASA is streaming video views of Hurricane Helene today (as it approaches the U.S. Gulf Coast and you can watch it online.
  
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• New type of Kevlar heading to ISS in October for space debris protection tests

  26-09-2024 18:00 via space.com
  
  Next-generation space debris protection material is being readied for a test trip to the International Space Station, to see how it holds up in the final frontier.
  
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• NASA, South Korea plan mission to unexplored region of deep space

  26-09-2024 17:00 via space.com
  
  NASA and South Korea's space agency have agreed to deeper cooperation in space exploration, science and aeronautics, including collaboration on a pioneering mission.
  
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• NASA restarts art program with New York murals aimed at Artemis Generation

  26-09-2024 16:00 via space.com
  
  As NASA works to return astronauts to the moon, the agency is resurrecting a program aimed at communicating the cultural significance of its missions. A new era for the NASA Arts Program has begun.
  
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• The W boson caused a particle mystery — but scientists have cracked the case

  26-09-2024 15:00 via space.com
  
  A puzzling discrepancy in measurements of the mass of the W+ and W– bosons, which are fundamental particles that carry the weak force, has been resolved by the Large Hadron Collider.
  
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• Why I'm going to Easter Island for the 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse

  26-09-2024 14:00 via space.com
  
  The world's most remote island, where moai stand and stare at the stars, will experience an annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024. For one eclipse-chaser, it's unmissable.
  
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• SpaceX Crew-9 dropped 2 NASA astronauts from ISS mission, but they were prepared (video)

  26-09-2024 12:00 via space.com
  
  Only 2 astronauts will launch to the ISS Sept. 26 with SpaceX instead of the planned 4. We spoke with the crew before the big change was made.
  
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• Earth will capture 'second moon' this weekend, scientists say

  26-09-2024 11:00 via space.com
  
  Earth will get a "new moon" this weekend when, on Sunday (Sept. 29), it captures the asteroid 2024 PT5, claiming it as a very temporary "mini-moon."
  
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• Earth will capture 'second moon' this weekend

  26-09-2024 11:00 via space.com
  
  Earth will get a "new moon" this weekend when, on Sunday (Sept. 29), it captures the asteroid 2024 PT5, claiming it as a very temporary "mini-moon."
  
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• Radar images capture snowman-shaped object tumbling past Earth

  26-09-2024 02:00 via space.com
  
  Radar images have captured snowman-shaped 2024 ON asteroid tumbling through space.
  
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• 30 Sep 2024 (4 days away): Mercury at superior solar conjunction

  26-09-2024 01:29 via in-the-sky.org
  
  Mercury passes around the far side of the Sun.
  
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• 29 Sep 2024 (3 days away): Asteroid 20 Massalia at opposition

  26-09-2024 01:29 via in-the-sky.org
  
  Asteroid 20 Massalia makes closest approach to the Earth.
  
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• 27 Sep 2024 (Tomorrow): Daytime Sextantid meteor shower 2024

  26-09-2024 01:29 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Daytime Sextantid meteor shower reaches its peak.
  
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• 27 Sep 2024 (Tomorrow): Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) passes perihelion

  26-09-2024 01:29 via in-the-sky.org
  
  Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) makes its closest approach to the Sun.
  
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• 27 Sep 2024 (2 days away): 47 Tuc is well placed

  26-09-2024 01:29 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The second brightest globular cluster in the sky, 47 Tuc (NGC 104; mag 4.0), in Tucana culminates at around midnight local time.
  
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• 01 Oct 2024 (6 days away): The Andromeda Galaxy is well placed

  26-09-2024 01:29 via in-the-sky.org
  
  The Andromeda Galaxy M31 (mag 3.4) culminates at around midnight local time.
  
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• Japan launching spy satellite on penultimate mission of H-2A rocket early Sept. 26

  26-09-2024 00:00 via space.com
  
  Japan is set to launch the IGS-Radar 8 spy satellite early Thursday morning (Sept. 26), on the second-to-last mission of the nation's venerable H-2A rocket.
  
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• Japan launches spy satellite on penultimate mission of H-2A rocket

  26-09-2024 00:00 via space.com
  
  Japan launched the IGS-Radar 8 spy satellite early Thursday morning (Sept. 26), on the second-to-last mission of the nation's venerable H-2A rocket.
  
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