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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab still 'untouched' by raging LA fires

The powerful Eaton fire has not reached the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, NASA's lead center for robotic planetary exploration.

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The Full Wolf Moon 'eats' Mars tonight. Here's how to see it

On the night of Jan. 13, the full moon will appear to pass in front of Mars, resulting in an occultation visible from the United States, much of southern and eastern Canada, and West Africa.

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Mars is bigger and brighter this weekend than it will be all year. Here's how to see it

Mars will be at perigee, its closest point to Earth, on Sunday, Jan. 12, appearing bigger and brighter in the sky. Here’s how to view the Red Planet at its best for 2025.

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Star escapes ravenous supermassive black hole, leaving behind its stellar partner

Scientists want to know if a tidal disruption event that exploded twice is the result of a star abandoning its binary partner, allowing it to be devoured by a supermassive black hole.

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NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory back online after 2024 data center flood

The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost."

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See the moon and Jupiter ride the Bull in tonight’s sky

On Friday (Jan. 10), the moon will pass near Jupiter, meeting up with the gas giant in the constellation Taurus. Viewers can expect to see the bright moon and Jupiter shortly after sunset.

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The fastest-spinning 'vampire star' we know of is shrinking. Soon, it will explode

The fastest-spinning white dwarf ever discovered is a shrinking cosmic vampire feasting on a stellar companion. A feeding process is pushing the dead star toward an imminent supernova explosion.

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An amateur astronomer used an old technique to study Jupiter — and found something strange

The long-held assumption that Jupiter's iconic swirling clouds are made of frozen ammonia could be upended.

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SpaceX rolls Starship out to pad ahead of Flight 7 test launch (photos)

SpaceX rolled the upper stage of its Starship megarocket out to the pad this morning (Jan. 9) ahead of its planned Jan. 13 test flight.

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Blue Origin delays 1st New Glenn rocket launch due to rough seas for landing

Bad weather for a rocket landing has pushed Blue Origin's first New Glenn launch to Jan. 12.

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Bezos’s Blue Origin schedules, then delays first orbital launch

New Glenn launch is delayed until at least 12 January due to conditions in the Atlantic, where booster is slated to land

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SpaceX launches 7th batch of next-gen spy satellites for US government (video, photos)

SpaceX launched the seventh batch of "proliferated architecture" spy satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office tonight (Jan. 9).

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Mercury looks stunning in images from BepiColombo spacecraft's 6th and final flyby

BepiColombo made its sixth and final flyby of Mercury on Wed (Jan. 8) capturing images of the tiny planet hinting at the mysteries it will soon investigate.

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Food grows better on the moon than on Mars, scientists find

Scientists expect the moon to have better soil for growing food than the red planet

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Giant super-Jupiter planets could have very chaotic pasts

When two giant planets collide, an even bigger world may be born.

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Watch the moon hide the 'Seven Sisters' of the Pleiades star cluster tonight

The moon will pass in front of the Pleiades star cluster during an occultation on Jan. 9, 2025. Here's how to see it.

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Watch Blue Origin launch its 1st New Glenn rocket early Monday in a free livestream

Blue Origin plans to launch the debut mission of its powerful New Glenn rocket early Monday morning (Jan. 13), and you can watch the action live.

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Japan Startup Hopeful Ahead Of Second Moon Launch

Japanese startup ispace vowed its upcoming second unmanned Moon mission will be a success, saying Thursday that it learned from its failed attempt nearly two years ago.

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What time is Blue Origin's 1st New Glenn rocket launch on Jan. 12?

Blue Origin will launch its first-ever New Glenn rocket on Jan. 10. Here's what time it will fly and where to look to watch it.

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SpaceX to launch Starship megarocket's Flight 7 test mission on Jan. 13

SpaceX aims to launch Starship Flight 7 on Monday (Jan. 13), an ambitious test that will feature an attempted launch-tower catch of the first-stage booster.

The Guardian - UK

My 90,000 shots of the sun: Andrew McCarthy’s best photograph

‘I took all the images with a precisely tuned telescope then joined them up. Use the wrong type of telescope and you’ll blind yourself and burn your house down’

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8 Years Later, Scientists Solve The Mystery Of A Weird Cosmic Radio Signal

Discover how scientists traced a mysterious radio signal from an ultra-dense neutron star 200 million light-years away, revealing insights into fast radio bursts.

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Venus and the moon light up the night sky in gorgeous photos from around the world

Venus and the moon made quite a pair during a conjunction on Jan. 3, 2025, and we've got the photos to prove it.

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Building blocks of life on Earth left the Milky Way before being pulled back in

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round trip on a cosmic conveyer belt.

The Guardian - AU

No telescope needed: how to navigate the Australian night sky in summer

Spot planets, galaxies and constellations in the Australian night sky – and look out for more auroras in 2025 as the sun reaches solar maximum

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