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Earthquake-proof shield for world’s best telescope cleared to proceed
Cosmos· 17 hours agoThe Giant Magellan Telescope’s massive enclosure has been greenlit for construction in Chile. The...
The Physics of Failure: Analyzing Hubble’s Gyroscope Malfunction
SciTechDaily· 7 days agoThe Hubble Space Telescope is currently in safe mode due to gyroscope problems, suspending its...
Interstellar Space Clouds Triggered the Ice Ages, Research Suggests
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe Pleistocene Epoch—with its glaciers, woolly mammoths, and Neanderthals—still looms large in...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 114 — Starliners & Starships
SPACE.com· 6 days agoSeven or so years after their projected crewed flight date, the second provider of crew delivery to...
Maine Aims To Become Polar Orbit Space Launch Hub
Forbes· 1 day agoGiven its location in the farthest northeastern corner of the continental U.S., Maine is ideally situated to be a jumping off point for small spacecraft aimed at utilizing polar orbits. With ...
Scientists Found Carbon in an Ancient Place Where It Was Never Supposed to Be
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoIn that data lurked an ancient galaxy named GS-z12—one of the...light-years away—in which the...
Hubble Telescope maps high-speed 'burps' from nearby feeding supermassive black hole for 1st time
SPACE.com· 18 hours agoUsing the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time ever, mapped the plasma...
A Massive Playground for Planespotters Just Opened at This Airport
Thrillist Food & Drink· 3 days agoCharlotte Douglas International Airport recently unveiled its much-anticipated space, a playground...
A star that exploded like a nuclear bomb is still raising questions half a century later
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoNow, Goldman and Sankrit have attained new results with their team, based on 2021 Hubble Space...
Massive 'El Gordo' galaxy cluster suggests dark matter smashes into itself
Space via Yahoo News· 7 days ago"The study makes a compelling case for the possibility of self-interacting dark matter between...