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SpaceX’s Starship lifts off in make-or-break orbital test flight (opens the original)
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The world’s largest rocket successfully entered orbit for the first time—a milestone for SpaceX and a relief for future NASA moon missions
What’s next for NASA’s new Roman Space Telescope? (opens the original)
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What’s next for NASA’s new Roman Space Telescope? After a flawless launch, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a mission to solve some of the universe’s biggest mysteries By Lee Billings edited by Claire Cameron NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is already exceeding expectations. After reaching the launchpad ahead of schedule and on budget, the spy-satellite-sourced, $4-billion project pulled off a flawless launch to space on Sunday morning. At a postlaunch press conference, NASA
‘Black hole stars’ from the dawn of the universe are coming into focus (opens the original)
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‘Black hole stars’ from the dawn of the universe are coming into focus First glimpsed as “little red dots” in deep-space images from the James Webb Space Telescope, these giant, gas-shrouded black holes are full of surprises By Lee Billings edited by Claire Cameron For four years, little red dots (LRDs) have been the hottest topic in astrophysics. Astronomers first noticed them in observations that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) made in 2022. The LRDs weren’t exactly subtle—each is at
Spectacular images reveal never-before-seen whirlpools on the sun (opens the original)
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Spectacular images reveal never-before-seen whirlpools on the sun Strange whirlpools of plasma seen in the sharpest images ever captured of our star help explain the deep origins of Earth-threatening space weather and more By Lee Billings edited by Clara Moskowitz Here’s a deceptively simple question with a complicated answer: What does a star look like? Of course, a star is a twinkling point of light in the heavens—or, in the case of our sun, a ferociously fiery orb of glowing plasma that domin
Rescue mission to save NASA’s Swift space telescope is imperiled in orbit (opens the original)
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Rescue mission to save NASA’s Swift space telescope is imperiled in orbit A private spacecraft launched to boost the decaying orbit of NASA’s Swift Observatory is now suffering from potentially mission-ending malfunctions A commercial spacecraft launched on an unprecedented mission to rescue an aging NASA observatory now needs a rescue of its own. Launched in early July, the Lightweight In-Space Navigation and Kinematics (LINK) servicing spacecraft went from contract award to launch in just nine
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