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NASA's Juno Probe Captures New Stunning Views of Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io

The new images have confirmed the high volcanic activity of Io, with countless volcanoes and lava flows seen on the surface of Jupiter's satellite. NASA estimates that there are hundreds of actively erupting volcanoes over the surface of IO.

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Hubble Space Telescope Reveals a Rare Intermediate-Sized Black Hole

The data collected by Hubble rule out alternative explanations for the object, such as a compact central cluster of stellar remnants like neutron stars, or smaller black holes orbiting each other.

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The Most Powerful Solar Telescope Has Captured New Views of the Sun's Surface

The Inouye Solar Telescope's unique ability to collect data in unprecedented detail will help scientists better understand the Sun's magnetic field and the processes that take place thereon.

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Astronomers Created a New Detailed Map of the Milky Way

The map is comprised of 21,400 individual exposures, with a final image showing a huge 3.32 billion celestial objects. The collected data accounts for around 6.5 percent of the entire night sky.

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The Milky Way May Have a Different Shape Than We Previously Thought

After a detailed study of the collected and systematized data, scientists suggested that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy with only two main arms extending from a centralized cluster of stars.

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Virgin Galactic Announces Its First Commercial Flight to Space

Billionaire Richard Branson's space tourism company Virgin Galactic announced that a test flight of four crew members will take place in May, and the first commercial flight is scheduled for late June 2023.

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Astronomers Detect the Largest Cosmic Explosion Ever Seen

The cause of the mysterious blast is unclear, but astronomers believe it is likely the result of a vast cloud of gas thousands of times larger than the Sun being swallowed up by a supermassive black hole.

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Startup Vast and SpaceX to Launch the First Commercial Space Station

The mission is actually available for booking: the company invites not only professional astronauts and space agencies but also private individuals who do either scientific or philanthropic work to join the flight.

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Astronomers Discover Two Super-Earths Orbiting a Star Nearby

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a group of astronomers were able to discover two super-Earths that revolve around a nearby red dwarf known as TOI-2095 within its habitable zone.

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Europe's Latest Weather Satellite Took an Incredibly Detailed Image of Earth

Launched into space last December, the European Meteosat Third Generation Imager-1 is the first next-generation satellite set to revolutionize weather forecasting in Europe, according to the European Space Agency (ESA).

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NASA Shared New Stunning Photos of the Moon's South Pole

The images were taken by a highly sensitive optical ShadowCam camera carried around the Moon by the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), which launched in August 2022 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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Astronomers Spotted a Star Swallowing Its Planet for the First Time

The Sun will swallow the three closest planets to it (Mercury, Venus, and Earth) when it enters the red giant stage in about five billion years. According to scientists, this observation gave the first real idea of how this engulfment occurs.

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A Key to a Crypto Wallet Holding 62 Bitcoins Will Be Sent to the Moon

The key will be engraved on a probe that will be delivered to the Moon by a SpaceX rocket this fall. The company also claims that no one will have access to the key, including employees within the company.

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Scientists Confirmed the Composition of Mars's Core Using Seismic Waves

Scientists were able to confirm the composition of Mars's core using seismic waves that traveled through the Red Planet. It turned out that Mats has a liquid core made of iron alloy and high amounts of sulfur and oxygen.

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You Can Now Compare the Sizes of Different Space Objects on a Dedicated Website

The website is called Space Object Comparison. It includes the following categories of space objects that can be compared: black holes, space objects from the solar system, Alpha Centauri, Kepler-10 system, Sirius system, and others.

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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit Files for Bankruptcy

The announcement comes just days after the company said it would pause operations and lay off nearly all of its workforce. Impacted employees will reportedly receive severance packages.

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Relativity Space Launched the World's First 3D-Printed Rocket into Space

Terran 1 failed to reach orbit in its test flight, but it represents a significant achievement. First-launch failures happen quite often and help gather valuable data for future developments and missions.

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NASA Unveils the Most Detailed 3D Map of Mars

The most detailed interactive map of Mars has a resolution of about 25 square meters per pixel and was created by the scientists of the Bruce Murray Planetary Visualization Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology over the course of six years.

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Astronomers Detect the Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst in Space

Numerous space detectors recorded a powerful gamma-ray burst passing through our solar system. The burst was officially named GRB 221009A, but unofficially it was dubbed BOAT, which stands for "brightest of all time."

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NASA's James Webb Telescope Captures New Images of Uranus

The so-called polar cap is clearly visible on the right side of the planet in the image. It appears when the pole is exposed to direct sunlight in the summer and disappears in the fall.

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NASA and Axiom Space Unveil a New Spacesuit for Artemis Moon Landing

Previously, NASA has selected Axiom Space as a company to develop and produce a next-generation spacesuit for the upcoming Artemis Lunar Program and future missions to the International Space Station (ISS).

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NASA's Webb Telescope Spots Dust Storms on a Distant Exoplanet

Researchers proved that its swirling clouds are made up of silicate particles, ranging from tiny specks to small grains. The temperature of the atmosphere reaches 830 degrees Celsius (1,500 degrees Fahrenheit).

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Saturn's Moon Mimas May Be a Stealth Ocean World

Recent numerical simulations of Herschel's crater on the satellite determined that the basin structure and lack of tectonics on Mimas were compatible with thinning ice shell and a geologically young ocean.

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NASA's Curiosity Rover Snapped a Photo of a Sunset on Mars

Martian clouds are mostly made of frozen ice and float about 60 kilometers above the ground. However, in this new image, the clouds reach an unusually higher altitude. NASA suggests these clouds are probably made of carbon dioxide ice, also known as dry ice.

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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Captured an Infrared Image of Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io

Scientists hope to gather more data on the moon's volcanoes that affect the planet's magnetic field and help form massive auroras on Jupiter. According to the researchers, Jupiter has the brightest auroras in the entire solar system.