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NASA has released a video of the solar eclipse that is currently underway

NASA demonstrates in X Twitter a video of a total solar eclipse that can now be observed in the Mexican city of Mazatlan. The concise message says, "Enjoy this. We are getting the first shots of the 2024 total solar eclipse, when the shadow [of the ...

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The 3.2-gigapixel digital camera for the LSST telescope - the largest ever built - has been completed

Specialists from the National Accelerator Laboratory SLAC marked a historic event lasting more than two decades — the completion of the construction and testing of the 3.2-gigapixel (!) LSST digital camera. This is the largest camera ever created, an...

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NASA has selected three companies that will create a "lunomobile" for the astronauts of the Artemis missions

Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab will participate in NASA's competition to develop a lunar vehicle that will allow movement on the Moon - a contract with a potential value of $4.6 billion for the next 13 years. The Lunar Terra...

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The White House has directed NASA to create a "new time zone" for the moon by 2026

Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) will establish an official time that will help manage future lunar missions. The memorandum, made public by the Biden administration on Tuesday, envisions collaboration between NASA and the Departments of Commerce, Defen...

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People see at different frequencies: some people distinguish 60 flashes per second, while some have 35 flashes merging already - research

According to the results of a new study, some people are able to see the world with a higher "frame rate" than others. The authors believe that this trait may even give these people an advantage when it comes to competitive games and sports, although...

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Space debris fell on a Florida home - probably from the International Space Station

A few weeks ago, a 1 kg fragment pierced the roof of Alejandro Otero's two-story house in Florida. The Nest camera captured the noise at 14:34 local time - this is important because at 14:29, space debris re-entered the atmosphere from the ISS. At th...

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Goodbye Lenna. Scientists have been banned from using an iconic 1972 Playboy photo to illustrate articles

A fragment of the digitized portrait of the Swedish model Lena Forsen, depicted in the centerfold of Playboy in November 1972, was widely used in scientific papers to test and illustrate image processing algorithms. Last week, the Computer Society IE...

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The Event Horizon Telescope has for the first time detected the magnetic fields that surround Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy

Since the 1980s, physicists have claimed that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, but its first "photo" was obtained only two years ago (and another one now) — thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This time, as...

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The Event Horizon Telescope has for the first time detected the magnetic fields that surround Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy

Physicists have been claiming since 1980 that in the center of the Milky Way there is a supermassive black hole, but its first "photos" were obtained only two years ago (and one more now) - thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This time astr...

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Catapult on steroids. Chinese railgun will launch crewed ships into space

To deliver astronauts into space requires an incredible amount of fuel (for example, the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo mission carried 770,000 liters of kerosene, as well as liquid oxygen as an oxidizer), so researchers have long been expl...

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Internal monologue: artificial intelligence has been taught to think (was it possible to do that?)

A new study shows that giving artificial intelligence systems an "inner monologue" significantly improves their performance. Essentially, artificial intelligence has been taught to think before responding to queries, much like how humans think about ...

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A rare "Blazing Star" will become visible in the night sky this year. How and when can it be seen?

The anticipated light show in the sky is the result of an "explosive interaction" between two neighboring stars, which occurs every 80 years. This star is located in the constellation Northern Crown (and has the corresponding official name - T North...

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A rare "Blazing Star" will become visible in the night sky this year. How and when can it be seen?

The anticipated light show in the sky is the result of an "explosive interaction" between two neighboring stars, which occurs every 80 years. This star is located in the constellation of the Northern Crown (and has the corresponding official name - ...

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Interlune wants to mine Helium-3 on the moon by 2030 - it's a potential fuel for nuclear fusion

Among the founders of the company are former employees of Blue Origin and an astronaut from the "Apollo-17" mission. Interlune plans to become the first company to extract natural resources on the Moon and sell them on Earth. Initially, the startup w...

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"Voyager 1" briefly made contact and offered hope for the resumption of NASA's historic mission

A month ago, it was believed that the 46-year-old space probe was "lost" due to a memory error. In fact, there was communication with the spacecraft, but it was meaningless - its messages were in gibberish. In early March, the spacecraft "Voyager-1"...

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