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• ZWO Seestar S30 Pro smart telescope review

  24-07-2026 22:00 via space.com
  
  Smart telescopes like the Seestar S30 Pro have changed astrophotography and, arguably, urban astronomy. The Seestar S30 Pro takes that concept further than most. Small enough to fit inside a camera backpack, it combines a refractor telescope, motorized mount, dual cameras and image-processing software into a compact unit controlled entirely from a smartphone. Within minutes of powering on, it can align itself to the night sky, slew to a specified target and begin stacking exposures to reveal gal
  
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• We boldly chat with 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' showrunners about space dinosaurs and Lovecraftian horrors for season 4 (interview)

  24-07-2026 20:00 via space.com
  
  Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman are the primary ringleaders behind "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds", and they're about to unleash the next cluster of 10 Season 4 episodes for their spirited space show. With an abundance of genre-crossing indulgences that are scary, surreal, and sometimes silly, the Paramount+ hit is operating at full warp speed in this penultimate outing, the debut episode of which just premiered on July 23, 2026.We hitched a ride with the acclaimed executive producers to l
  
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• We boldly chat to 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' showrunners about dinosaurs in space and Lovecraftian horrors for season 4 (interview)

  24-07-2026 20:00 via space.com
  
  Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman are the primary ringleaders behind "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds", and they're about to unleash the next cluster of 10 Season 4 episodes for their spirited space show. With an abundance of genre-crossing indulgences that are scary, surreal, and sometimes silly, the Paramount+ hit is operating at full warp speed in this penultimate outing, the debut episode of which just premiered on July 23, 2026.We hitched a ride with the acclaimed executive producers to l
  
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• What lurks beneath the volcanoes of Jupiter's moon Io? NASA's Juno probe just took a peek

  24-07-2026 18:00 via space.com
  
  Scientists have measured temperatures beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, offering the first-ever glimpse of the hidden heat driving the most volcanically active world in the solar system.During close flybys of Io in late 2023 and early 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft turned its Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument toward the moon, probing roughly six to 20 feet (two to six meters) beneath its surface. Originally designed to peer through Jupiter's thick clouds, the instrument instea
  
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• Planet hunter gets the silent treatment | Space photo of the day for July 24, 2026

  24-07-2026 16:00 via space.com
  
  ESA's Plato spacecraft completes critical testing ahead of its spaceflight.(Image credit: ESA - R. Moorkens O'Reilly)A planet-hunting spacecraft named Plato just passed a series of critical tests as it prepares for the challenges of outer space. What is it?Gleaming in the light of a laboratory, this box of electronics is actually the European Space Agency's Plato spacecraft sitting inside a special test chamber where it underwent critical tests ahead of its planned spaceflight. The Plato (PLAnet
  
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• The easiest way to learn the summer night sky starts with these 3 stars

  24-07-2026 15:00 via space.com
  
  There is a particular moment every July when the night sky makes perfect sense to me. Every time I step outside at night, I instinctively look overhead for the Summer Triangle. Not because it's the most spectacular sight in the sky. In fact, the vast asterism is almost suspiciously simple: three bright stars, large enough to cut through twilight and light pollution without much effort.Experienced stargazers quietly depend on the Summer Triangle more than we admit. People imagine astronomy involv
  
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• Lightning strike on Chinese rocket captured in epic launch photo

  24-07-2026 14:57 via space.com
  
  A Long March-3B carrier rocket carrying the Tianlian II-06 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on July 23, 2026 in Xichang, Sichuan Province of China. (Image credit: Zhou Quan/VCG via Getty Images)Lightning struck a Chinese rocket shortly after liftoff this week, as seen in incredible video and photographs.A Long March-3B rocket lifted off from China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Thursday (July 23) carrying a communications relay satellite destined for geostation
  
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• Epic photo captures lightning striking a Chinese rocket during liftoff

  24-07-2026 14:57 via space.com
  
  A Long March-3B carrier rocket carrying the Tianlian II-06 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on July 23, 2026 in Xichang, Sichuan Province of China. (Image credit: Zhou Quan/VCG via Getty Images)Lightning struck a Chinese rocket shortly after liftoff this week, as seen in incredible video and photographs.A Long March-3B rocket lifted off from China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Thursday (July 23) carrying a communications relay satellite destined for geostation
  
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• This Week In Space LIVE: The Viking Mars landings 50 years later

  24-07-2026 14:00 via space.com
  
  Hey, Space Fans! Every weekend here at Space.com, you may have noticed we highlight the latest episode of the podcast This Week In Space, a TWiT show co-hosted by yours truly and my friend and colleague Rod Pyle, a space historian and editor of the National Space Society magazine Ad Astra. This Week In Space episodes usually drop each Saturday, but this week we're doing something a bit different. To mark the 50th anniversary of NASA's Viking landings (Viking 1 touched down on Mars on July 20, 19
  
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• Hubble telescope watches unique nova explosion fire cosmic 'bullets' through the Milky Way at 20 million mph

  24-07-2026 12:00 via space.com
  
  Using NASA's long-serving Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that a stellar explosion in the Milky Way is blasting out cosmic bullets travelling at 20 million miles per hour.The cosmic explosion in question is V445 Puppis, which erupted in 2000 and is the only known "helium nova" in our galaxy. Though astronomers have been studying V445 Puppis for two decades, much of the phenomena associated with it were shrouded in mystery due to a vast cloud of dusty debris that surrounded th
  
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