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Europa Clipper Joins in on the Star Observing
It doesn’t take a lot of telescope to make the number of visible stars radically increase, in it turns out even the Europa clipper, with its several centimeter star tracker cameras, has been regularly making its own observations. The Clipper launched October 14,...
One Star Cluster, 80 Million Pixels
Nebula encasing RCW 38 (credit:ESO/VVVX survey) Our modern, highly efficient cameras and massive telescopes allow us to not only do massive surveys, they also allow us to see specific objects in previously unimagined detail. The 4-m Visible and Infrared Survey...
DESI Takes Census of Black Holes in More Than One Million Galaxies
Artist's illustration depicting a dwarf galaxy that hosts an active galactic nucleus (credit: NOIRLab) Back when I started astronomy in the 1990s, folks joked that a sample of 6 was big enough to do statistics. In those early days of digital cameras and multi-meter...
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Suni Williams Breaks Women’s Spacewalk Record
NASA astronaut Suni Williams conducts spacewalk The US Human presence in space is supposed to be flying back and forth form the ISS on a combo of SpaceX and Boeing crew capsules. Unfortunately, was undermined by it’s own failures to deliver on time and a myriad of...
Closer Look: Earth Exceeded 1.5℃ Temperature Increase
NOAA climate data The numbers are in. 2024 was the hottest year on record, and global average temperatures were up 1.5℃ compared to pre-industrial levels. This increase is what scientists have been saying we must avoid if at all possible, and now that we’re here,...
2024 PT: That’s No Moon – That’s a Piece of a Moon!
Asteroid 2024 PT5's orbit around the Sun (image credit: NASA) Understanding our world and the universe beyond requires a lot of observation to be combined with a lot of knowledge and amazing creativity. Last year, a potentially hazardous object, cataloged as 2024 PT5,...
Ordering Enough Water for Early Planet Earth
artist's depiction of planets colliding. While major asteroid and comet impacts have often been devastating for life on Earth, life on Earth wouldn’t be here without impacts that occurred early in our world’s history. As the story goes, Due to our planet’s...
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Yellow Alert: Asteroid YR4 On Orbit with 2.25% Chance of Collision
Every once in a while, the Universe likes to remind us it has the ability to kill us. Meet asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late December, it could just hit the Earth on Dec 22, 2032. Discovered by the ATLAS survey, it was initially calculated to have a 1.3%...
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