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A new study that used data from Hubble and ESA’s Gaia space telescope, has re-examined the long-held prediction of a collision and merger between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy, and found it is far less inevitable than astronomers had...
by AKALib
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on Tue Jun 03, 2025 at 03:00 PM PDT
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NASA is going to suffer even more. A billionaire friend of Musk was not enough. Jared Isaacman apparently really wanted to take the job seriously and so was never going to be subservient enough. Without Musk around anymore having someone who could...
by Judeling
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on Sat May 31, 2025 at 05:16 PM PDT
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“This budget is a retreat, a narrowing of ambition.” Pasadena, CA (May 30, 2025) —The White House’s FY 2026 congressional budget justification for NASA, released today, is an extinction-level event for the space agency’s most productive, successful,...
by Chuter
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Here is another diary to help cleanse your timeline in these trying times. Gene Kranz, the legendary NASA Flight Director,who is now 91, was bestowed with the 2024 American Astronautical Society Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding...
by AKALib
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on Sat May 24, 2025 at 03:35 PM PDT
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Penguin poop
Sloth diversity
JWST
Oldest reptile discovery
Plume dynamics and wildfire
Plants respond to pollinator sounds�
Bird feeders changed hummingbirds
Climate reshapes forests
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by Besame
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on Sat May 24, 2025 at 08:56 PM PDT
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Here is something to cleanse your timeline in these trying times. The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft underwent another major surgery in March this year. The fuel lines (arteries 😄) of the currently operational thrusters that are used to control...
by AKALib
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on Wed May 14, 2025 at 04:41 PM PDT
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Here is an update on the NASA Psyche mission, which was launched on Oct 13, 2023, to orbit and study the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche beginning in 2029.
NASA engineers are troubleshooting an ...
by AKALib
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on Tue May 06, 2025 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Let’s take a few moments off the numbing news cycle to marvel at the amazing beauty of the cosmos and humankind’s quest to understand it. NASA's Lucy spacecraft, which was launched on October 16, 2021, is getting ready for its close flyby of the...
by AKALib
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on Sun Apr 20, 2025 at 05:08 AM PDT
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Updating my previous story on proposed budget cuts at NASA, here is The Planetary Society’s official statement on the most recent information that would cut NASA’s Science Mission Directorate by 47%. Follow the links to our Advocacy Action Center to...
by Chuter
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on Sat Apr 19, 2025 at 08:57 AM PDT
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First, they came for education, and then they came for the results of that education. Ignorant fucking assholes. What made America great you MAGA humping pricks? NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. Trump Wants to Kill It and Other...
by LaFeminista
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on Sat Apr 19, 2025 at 06:06 AM PDT
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US President Donald Trump and his unelected Co-President Elon Musk are calling for a US military invasion of the Alpha Centauri system as the next move in their empire building strategy which began with the wars on Canada and Greenland. White House...
by Mark Taylor Canfield
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on Tue Apr 01, 2025 at 07:21 PM PDT
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Due to the specific tilts of our planets, on this day Saturn’s rings temporarily disappear from view from Earth. When I first saw this in headlines, due to the specific tilt of our present reality, I immediately thought the DOGE boys must have...
by Franks Human
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on Sun Mar 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM PDT
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Guest: Climate Analyst Matt Sedlar Also: Splashdown in the 'Gulf of America' More Trump court losses And why giving up isn't an option... Earlier this month, Donald Trump issued an Executive Order calling for the "Immediate Expansion of American Timber...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Mar 19, 2025 at 06:46 PM PDT
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ELON MUSK THE “GENIUS” If you hang out in space exploration and/or astronomy websites, you'd know that X, the site formerly known as Twitter (until Elon Musk ruined it on purpose), hosted a March Madness bracket tournament, where the person who...
by NoFortunateSon
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on Tue Apr 08, 2025 at 05:37 AM PDT
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NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov finally made it home to mother Earth as they splashed down in the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico (!) under blue skies at 5:57 p.m. EDT aboard...
by AKALib
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on Tue Mar 18, 2025 at 04:46 PM PDT
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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,and jck,. Alumni ...
by side pocket
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on Sun Mar 16, 2025 at 09:00 PM PDT
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On this day of disappointments and exhausting frustrations (more at the trump regime than Democrats, I hope), here is something to cheer about and take solace in. While we were watching the 'Blood moon' lunar eclipse last night, the Firefly Aerospace...
by AKALib
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on Fri Mar 14, 2025 at 04:35 PM PDT
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The NASA SPHEREx space telescope will launch tonight at 11:10 p.m. EDT from Vandenberg Space Force Base in CA aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch has been delayed several times for various reasons. SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the...
by AKALib
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on Tue Mar 11, 2025 at 03:00 PM PDT
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There are reports The White House is considering a 50% cut to NASA’s science programs, and 25% of its overall budget. This would be catastrophic for both current and planned missions. On Friday, space reporter Eric Berger at Ars Technica published a...
by Chuter
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on Sun Mar 09, 2025 at 09:31 AM PDT
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Here are a few stories related to space and astronomy to take our minds off for a few moments from the sabotage and destruction of our government and institutions being caused by trump and his tech-bro handlers. As you aware, a slew of space missions,...
by AKALib
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on Sat Mar 08, 2025 at 05:06 PM PST
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