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Alef Aeronautics says ‘Kitty Hawk moment’ marks a new era for transportationwww.independent.co.uk
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Scientists Just Found a Black Hole So Big It Shouldn’t Exist!
Astronomers have just uncovered a monstrous black hole weighing an unfathomable 36 billion Suns—one of the largest ever detected. But how did it get so big, and why does it defy everything we thought we knew about black holes?
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wasn't sure if I should post this here, but..
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Intuitive Machines announced on Friday morning that its Athena mission to the surface of the Moon, which landed on its side, has ended
After less than a day, the Athena lander is dead on the Moon
“The mission has concluded and teams are continuing to assess the data collected.”…
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Can just ANYONE go to the moon?
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Firefly Aerospace Becomes First Commercial Company to Successfully Land on the Moon
On March, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander softly touched down in Mare Crisium carrying 10 NASA instruments.
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Can just ANYONE go to the moon?
Firefly Aerospace Becomes First Commercial Company to Successfully Land on the Moon
On March, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander softly touched down in Mare Crisium carrying 10 NASA instruments.
I would hope so... please don't get the government involved in regulating that lol.
I am glad to see people going to the moon, if we are serious about truly advancing human achievement when it comes to space and talking about things like colonizing other planets we need baby steps, and being able to go back and forth to the moon, bring resources and establish some kind of lunar base seems key, plus launching from the moon for deeper space exploration would be FAR more efficient for resources because there is no atmosphere.
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Stem cell therapy trial reverses "irreversible" damage to cornea
Eye injuries that damage the cornea are usually irreversible and cause blindness. But a new clinical trial has repaired this damage in patients thanks to a transplant of stem cells from their healthy eyes.
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Stem cell therapy trial reverses "irreversible" damage to cornea
Eye injuries that damage the cornea are usually irreversible and cause blindness. But a new clinical trial has repaired this damage in patients thanks to a transplant of stem cells from their healthy eyes.
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New treatment could cure one in 20 cases of high blood pressure
TTT therapy burns away nodules that lead to salt buildup in body, which increases risk of stroke or heart attack
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Is the universe spinning? Strange galaxy motion suggests that it is
JWST images reveal galaxy rotation patterns that challenge the Big Bang model. Could the universe be spinning?
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Potentially Habitable Super-earth Discovered Just 20 Light-years Away
Astronomers have discovered a super-Earth just 20 light-years away, orbiting a Sun-like star in the habitable zone—where liquid water might exist. Could this be one of our best chances to study an Earth-like world up close?
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52-foot-high 'megaripples' from asteroid that killed the dinosaurs mapped deep beneath Louisiana in 3D
Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation following the impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.
Scientists Discover a Trait in Speech That Foreshadows Cognitive Decline
Can you pass me the whatchamacallit? It's right over there next to the thingamajig.
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We got rid of acid rain. Now something scarier is falling from the sky.
Here’s why you should never, ever drink the rain.
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Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, giving it an insurmountable lead in the running tally of moons in the solar system.
Until recently, the “moon king” title was held by Jupiter, but Saturn now has a total of 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets combined.
The team behind the discoveries had previously identified 62 Saturnian moons using the Canada France Hawaii telescope and, having seen faint hints that there were more out there, made further observations in 2023.
“Sure enough, we found 128 new moons,” said the lead researcher, Dr Edward Ashton, a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Academia Sincia in Taiwan. “Based on our projections, I don’t think Jupiter will ever catch up.”
There are 95 moons of Jupiter with confirmed orbits as of 5 February 2024.
The moons have been formally recognised by the International Astronomical Union this week and, for now, have been assigned strings of numbers and letters.
They will eventually be given names based on Gallic, Norse and Canadian Inuit gods, in keeping with convention for Saturn’s moons.
Most of the new moons fall in the Norse cluster, meaning astronomers are now on the hunt for dozens of obscure Viking deities. “Eventually the criteria may have to be relaxed a bit,” Ashton said.
The moons were identified using the “shift and stack” technique, in which astronomers acquire sequential images that trace the moon’s path across the sky and combine them to make the moon bright enough to detect.
All of the 128 new moons are “irregular moons”, potato-shaped objects that are just a few kilometres across. The escalating number of these objects highlights potential future disagreements over what actually counts as a moon.
“I don’t think there’s a proper definition for what is classed as a moon. There should be,” said Ashton. However, he added that the team may have reached a limit for moon detection – for now.
“With current technology, I don’t think we can do much better than what has already been done for moons around Saturn, Uranus and Neptune,” said Ashton.……..
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Until recently, the “moon king” title was held by Jupiter, but Saturn now has a total of 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets combined.
The team behind the discoveries had previously identified 62 Saturnian moons using the Canada France Hawaii telescope and, having seen faint hints that there were more out there, made further observations in 2023.
“Sure enough, we found 128 new moons,” said the lead researcher, Dr Edward Ashton, a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Academia Sincia in Taiwan. “Based on our projections, I don’t think Jupiter will ever catch up.”
There are 95 moons of Jupiter with confirmed orbits as of 5 February 2024.
The moons have been formally recognised by the International Astronomical Union this week and, for now, have been assigned strings of numbers and letters.
They will eventually be given names based on Gallic, Norse and Canadian Inuit gods, in keeping with convention for Saturn’s moons.
Most of the new moons fall in the Norse cluster, meaning astronomers are now on the hunt for dozens of obscure Viking deities. “Eventually the criteria may have to be relaxed a bit,” Ashton said.
The moons were identified using the “shift and stack” technique, in which astronomers acquire sequential images that trace the moon’s path across the sky and combine them to make the moon bright enough to detect.
All of the 128 new moons are “irregular moons”, potato-shaped objects that are just a few kilometres across. The escalating number of these objects highlights potential future disagreements over what actually counts as a moon.
“I don’t think there’s a proper definition for what is classed as a moon. There should be,” said Ashton. However, he added that the team may have reached a limit for moon detection – for now.
“With current technology, I don’t think we can do much better than what has already been done for moons around Saturn, Uranus and Neptune,” said Ashton.……..
Astronomers discover 128 new moons orbiting Saturn
Planet now has 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets in the solar system combined
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NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies
The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe expanded so fast in its first moments.
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