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Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample - NASA (www.nasa.gov)
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JWST Detects the Earliest, Most Distant Galaxy in the Known Universe—And It’s Super Weird (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Summ:

  • The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered the most distant galaxy ever confirmed, named JADES-GS-z14-0, which appears as it existed just 290 million years after the Big Bang.

  • The discovery of this surprisingly luminous and massive early galaxy challenges theories about how galaxies formed in the cosmic dawn

  • JWST has been repeatedly breaking its own records for the most distant galaxies since beginning operations in 2022

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjeenyw8rd2o

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/early-highlights/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-finds-most-distant-known-galaxy

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Russian satellite breaks up in space, forces ISS astronauts to shelter (www.reuters.com)
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NASA selects SpaceX to build deorbit vehicle for International Space Station (www.space.com)
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China calls on scientists of all nations to study lunar samples, but notes obstacle with the US (apnews.com)
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Blue Origin Urges FAA to Cap SpaceX Launches at Kennedy (www.flyingmag.com)
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NASA’s Juno Gets a Close-Up Look at Lava Lakes on Jupiter’s Moon Io (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
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What would it be like to stand on the surface of Titan? (www.planetary.org)
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Chang'e-6: China's space probe returns with rare Moon rocks (www.bbc.co.uk)
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What space object do you find the most interesting? (lemmy.ca)
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Personally, I find Brown Dwarfs to be absolutely fascinating. An object that isn't quite a planet and isn't quite a star, but something in between.

What would one even look like? Would it look like a gas giant that's glowing red, along with swirls of gas in its atmosphere like Jupiter? Or would it resemble a star and have a fiery surface like the sun? I prefer to imagine them as glowing gas giants but I don't know how realistic that is.

Gas giants in general are fascinating to me as well, I really hope we send a probe into one of the gas giants with a camera before I die. I'd absolutely love to see what it looks like inside a gas giants atmosphere before the probe gets crushed by the increasing pressure as it descends.

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Scientists Propose New Way to Find Aliens: Detect Their Failing Warp Drives (gizmodo.com)
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China, France launch satellite to better understand the universe (phys.org)
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Astronauts stranded in space due to multiple issues with Boeing's Starliner — and the window for a return flight is closing (www.livescience.com)
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NASA's Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with "Rose" of Galaxies - NASA (www.nasa.gov)
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Mayo woman set to become first Irish person in space (www.rte.ie)
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NASA Releases Hubble Image Taken in New Pointing Mode - NASA Science (science.nasa.gov)
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Astronomers detect sudden awakening of black hole 1m times mass of sun (www.theguardian.com)
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A Weird Final Test for Boeing’s Starliner Uncovered the Likely Cause of Several Recently-Failed Thrusters (www.inverse.com)
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Searching for Life’s Simple Necessities Across the Asteroid Belt (www.the-scientist.com)
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Human missions to Mars in doubt after astronaut kidney shrinkage revealed (www.yahoo.com)
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ESA-China moon cooperation could end with Chang’e-6 (spacenews.com)
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'No emergency situation' on International Space Station, NASA says after astronaut medical drill audio causes stir (www.space.com)
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Would astronauts’ kidneys survive a roundtrip to Mars? (www.ucl.ac.uk)
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‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ explosion will bring a new star to the night sky (edition.cnn.com)
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Boeing's Starliner has 5 'small' helium leaks as astronauts' ISS mission is extended: NASA (abcnews.go.com)
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