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Good morning, everyone and welcome to Saturday’s Morning Open Thread.
Morning Open Thread is a daily, copyrighted post from a host of editors and guest writers. We support our community, invite ...
by P Carey
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on Sat Apr 06, 2024 at 03:30 AM PDT
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Quite a universe we live in! And now we have a better look at it.
Meet the James Webb Space Telescope
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by Youffraita
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on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 09:55 PM PDT
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by BrianMcFadden
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 02:50 PM PDT
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Today’s IFT (integrated flight test) will have Spacex and NASA at least contemplating doing cartwheels. While it didn’t quite meet all of its stretch goals it came very close and exceeded its main goal by some distance. We will not know how well it...
by Judeling
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on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 01:02 PM PDT
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This week NASA administrator Bill Nelson warned Congress that China is bolstering its space capabilities, using its civilian program to camouflage its military objectives. "China has made extraordinary strides especially in the last ten years, but they...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 11:01 AM PDT
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As reported by Reuters, a SOFT landing (not a catastrophic deceleration) was achieved just this afternoon EST. apple.news/… NASA’s big gamble in having private space exploration and construction (other than SpaceX) has finally paid off with a near...
by tufdaawg
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on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 05:32 PM PST
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Intuitive Machines has landed its Odysseus spacecraft on the moon. And they are the first private company to achieve this feat. Sorry, Tesla dude. 'Welcome to the Moon' After a round of somewhat muted applause, we've just heard CEO Steve Altemus tell...
by elliott
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on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 03:59 PM PST
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BBC article on satellite In-case you missed the articles, Japan is about to launch the worlds first wood satellite. The reason behind the material choice, is that varies metals in satellites when they breakup in the atmosphere are damaging to the ozone...
by umbra
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on Sun Feb 18, 2024 at 07:34 AM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 09:36 PM PST
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UPDATE at T+1:06 : Wheee! That was fun! The best part, if you don’t care about details, is at T+46. You can see plasma coming off the ship as it re-enters the atmosphere. The whole thing has incredible views. The booster made it all the way to its...
by amiganguli
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on Wed Mar 13, 2024 at 09:55 AM PDT
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Granted this is a click-bait headline, since it first showed up in the British online tabloid Metro, and the lead researcher here is a formerly well-respected Harvard Astrophysicist who has more recently been making the rounds of UFO conventions. but...
by Irontortoise
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on Mon Feb 12, 2024 at 06:46 PM PST
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The 1970 Soviet lunar probe Lunokhod was overshadowed by the American Apollo moon landings, but it was a significant technical achievement in space exploration. "Hidden History" is a diary series ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 12:55 PM PDT
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Saturdays for the Overnight News Digest are generally focused on science happenings. On the last Saturday of the year we are looking back at 2023 and looking ahead to 2024. This is an open thread, so feel free to leave comments below. The biggest event...
by annetteboardman
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on Sat Dec 30, 2023 at 09:01 PM PST
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In case you missed it, NASA recently beamed this “Cat video from Space” on December 11. The video was sent using laser optics from the NASA Psyche spacecraft as part of the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology experiment. DSOC is an...
by AKALib
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on Thu Dec 21, 2023 at 04:14 PM PST
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Good morning, everyone and welcome to Saturday’s Morning Open Thread.
Morning Open Thread is a daily, copyrighted post from a host of editors and guest writers. We support our community, invite ...
by P Carey
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on Sat Dec 09, 2023 at 03:30 AM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Dec 01, 2023 at 08:50 PM PST
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Last year, on October 9, we on Earth witnessed the most luminous celestial event ever recorded, by far. It was a gamma ray burst (GRB) at least 10x as bright as any other example ever seen, and it lasted 70x longer than any other known GRB. This was...
by skralyx
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on Fri Nov 17, 2023 at 07:34 PM PST
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The worlds most powerful and largest space transport system so far in history underwent its second integrated flight test. While not meeting its most optimistic milestones, it more than met its test objectives. Whatever you think about Musk or Space in...
by Judeling
157 comments
on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 06:48 AM PST
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This is a video I made with my friend Julie as my co-host.�
In this video, I discuss the question about whether or not Pluto is or is not a planet, and it doesn’t matter what we call Pluto, ...
by jtg
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on Tue Nov 14, 2023 at 08:11 AM PST
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With everything that past going on at home and abroad, this news didn’t seem to get much attention, but in the past few weeks, the small, elite group of human beings who not only flew to the moon, but also got far enough away from the earth to see it...
by toddsmitts
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 07:56 PM PST
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