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SpaceX adds 26 satellites to its Starlink constellation with launch from California
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SpaceX adds 26 satellites to its Starlink constellation with launch from California A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 26 Starlink broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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NuSTAR Art + Coloring Pages
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NuSTAR Art + Coloring Pages Art inspired by the NuSTAR Mission.
A coloring page for NASA’s NuSTAR mission.
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NuSTAR Coloring Page – Spacecraft (PNG)
Jun 12, 2025
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Art inspired by the NuSTAR Mission.
A coloring page for NASA’s NuSTAR ...
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Missing link star? Why this 'teenage vampire' white dwarf has scientists so excited
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Missing link star? Why this 'teenage vampire' white dwarf has scientists so excited Astronomers have discovered a "teenage vampire" dead star in the process of devouring a companion star during a short-lived, "missing link" phase of its evolution.
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Pluto's hazy skies are making the dwarf planet even colder, James Webb Space Telescope finds
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Pluto's hazy skies are making the dwarf planet even colder, James Webb Space Telescope finds Simultaneously cooling Pluto while energizing atmospheric molecules to allow them to escape into space, Pluto's haze plays a key role in the planet's energy balance.
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NASA’s SLS Rocket: Booster Separation Motors
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NASA’s SLS Rocket: Booster Separation Motors NASA/Kevin O’Brien
NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) solid rocket boosters are the largest, most powerful solid propellant boosters to ever fly. Standing 17 stories tall and burning approximately six tons of propellant every second, each booster generates 3.6 million pounds of ...
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Item Emporium Dinosaur Egg Galaxy Star Projector review
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Item Emporium Dinosaur Egg Galaxy Star Projector review One of the coolest designs of any star projector we've seen, we think the Dinosaur Egg Galaxy Star Projector is amongst the best options for kids.
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Far Out
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Far Out NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain); Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
Pismis 24, the star cluster seen here in an image released on Dec. 11, 2006, lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC ...
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NASA’s Hurricane Science, Tech, Data Help American Communities
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Hurricane Milton swirls over the ocean in this ...
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NASA Sensor on Space Station Eyes Contamination off California Coast
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NASA Sensor on Space Station Eyes Contamination off California Coast 4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
Instruments in space are helping scientists map wastewater plumes flowing into the Pacific Ocean from the heavily polluted Tijuana River, seen here with the San Diego sky-line to the north. NOAA
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Star Trek to Star Wars, The Fantastic Four to Predator — here are 10 sci-fi...
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Star Trek to Star Wars, The Fantastic Four to Predator — here are 10 sci-fi... Big franchises like 'Star Wars' and 'The Fantastic Four' are joined by exciting original works. These are the sci-fi comics we can't wait for in 2025.
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It's our choice as the best smart telescope and it's rarely discounted — now with...
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It's our choice as the best smart telescope and it's rarely discounted — now with... The Unistellar eQuinox 2 is our telescope experts' pick as the best overall smart telescope, and is now $420 off for Father's Day.
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334th ESA Council: Media information session
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334th ESA Council: Media information session Video:
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Watch the replay of the media information session where ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun (CH) brief journalists on the key decisions made during the ESA Council meeting held at ESA Headquarters in Paris ...
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Join ESA at the International Paris Air Show 2025
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Join ESA at the International Paris Air Show 2025 Join the European Space Agency at the new Paris Space Hub during this year’s International Paris Air Show.
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Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles
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Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter’s unique viewing angle will change our understanding of the Sun’s ...
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Binoculars to boost your night-sky viewing
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Binoculars to boost your night-sky viewing Omegon 2 x 54 wide-field binoculars
Multi-coating and blackened lens edges prevent reflections to ensure a clean untroubled field.
Galilean binoculars go all of the way back to, well, the time of the great man himself. I vaguely recall reading once that ...
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Lyra’s stunning smoke ring – M57
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Lyra’s stunning smoke ring – M57 The extraordinary Ring Nebula (Messier 57), showing off its multilayered form. Image: Bob Fera.
Messier 57, more famously known as the Ring Nebula, graces the constellation Lyra as one of the finest planetary nebulae in the night sky. A true summer ...
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Is the Hubble Tension Resolved?
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Is the Hubble Tension Resolved? The “Hubble tension” refers to a long-standing discrepancy in measurements of the universe’s expansion rate — specifically, between values calculated from nearby observations (like Cepheid variable stars and Type Ia supernovae) and those inferred from the early universe via the ...
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ISS On-Orbit Status Report - NASA
ISS Daily Summary Report Discontinued Beginning Monday, July 29th, the IMC Daily Summary will be discontinued.
To learn more about the groundbreaking science and engineering happening daily on the International Space Station, please visit the space station blog at https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/, or browse a variety of space station ...
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