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Science • Jun 16

Among the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered

Amazon now has hundreds of flight-ready satellites standing idle in Florida, waiting to join the company's low-Earth orbit Internet constellation, an Amazon...

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Science • Jun 16

High degree of quantum entanglement detected for first time in centimeter-sized crystal of strange metal

Many quantum effects can be observed only when a small number of particles is studied—individual atoms, molecules or photons, for example,...

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Science • Jun 16

NASA X-ray spacecraft catches jet erupting from 1st supermassive black hole imaged by humanity

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft have obtained the most detailed image yet of the jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the...

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Science • Jun 16

Third time's the charm for a row of faint galaxies without dark matter

A Yale-led team of astronomers has found a third galaxy devoid of dark matter—located alongside the other two in a formation that has never been seen before...

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Science • Jun 16

California’s tectonic systems at highest levels of stress in 1,000 years – study

San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems in 'critically loaded state', increasing chance of 'big one' quake in future.

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Science • Jun 16

Physicists identify upper limit to resistivity in a pure metal

Experimental atomic physicists have discovered there is a maximum amount of electrical resistance, or resistivity, that can result from collisions between...

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Science • Jun 16

Moon to block DC’s view of Venus on Wednesday afternoon

Got binoculars? A telescope? If you do, haul them out Wednesday afternoon to observe the three-day-old waxing crescent moon occult — block D.C.'s view — of...

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Science • Jun 16

SpaceX Cargo Dragon Departs Space Station With Science Research

HOUSTON—NASA's 34th SpaceX Dragon resupply capsule spacecraft has departed the International Space Station (ISS) loaded with scientific research and tested...

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Science • Jun 16

What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 2: Kelvin and Helmholtz at the Ready

(This is Part 2 of a series on what would happen if the Sun stopped. Read Part 1 first.) When you crank up your stove to heat a pan to cook your eggs,...

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Science • Jun 16

Europa’s Ice Shell Gets Its Best Radar Portrait Yet: A 13-Year Dataset Arrives

Europa ice shell data from a 13-year bistatic radar campaign using Goldstone and the NSF Green Bank Telescope was unveiled today at AAS 248 in Pasadena.

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Science • Jun 16

‘Fireworks’ spotted in stellar explosion 15 million light-years away

Galaxy M83 is home to some unexpected pyrotechnics from the aftermath of a supernova.

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Science • Jun 16

DSA’s 1,650-dish grid to survey universe 100x faster with real-time GPU data processing

Caltech's Deep Synoptic Array will become the world's most sensitive and fastest radio telescope, mapping over 1 billion cosmic objects.

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Science • Jun 16

Astronomers Discover Third Galaxy Without Dark Matter

Findings strengthen evidence for a violent galactic collision that may have separated ordinary matter from dark matter. Maunakea, Hawaiʻi – Astronomers...

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Science • Jun 16

Look up! The moon and Venus will stage a rare daytime disappearing act today

See Venus disappear behind the moon in a rare daytime spectacle on June 17. Here's how and when to catch it.

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Science • Jun 16

Chance of mega earthquake hitting California now at a 'historic high', experts warn

A huge earthquake could be about to arrive near Los Angeles, the likes of which hasn't been seen for more than a century.

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Science • Jun 16

Webb & Hubble reveal relic of our galaxy’s formation

Researchers have confirmed a new class of objects within our Milky Way galaxy: survivors called 'bulge fossil fragments.' Terzan 5 is the prototype of these...

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Science • Jun 16

Mixed reactions over all-male Artemis III crew

Many took to social media to express their dismay over the lack of female representation of the all-male Artemis III crew.

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Science • Jun 16

NASA Webb, Hubble Reveal History of Relic of Milky Way’s Formation

Researchers using two of humanity's most powerful observatories — NASA's James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — have definitively shown that Terzan 5 is...

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Science • Jun 16

Zoom to See Terzan 5 Near Our Milky Way Galaxy’s Bulge

Zoom in to Terzan 5, a star cluster that lies within the crowded central region of our Milky Way galaxy known as the bulge.

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Science • Jun 16

NASA’s Quantum Lab Aboard Space Station Gets Chilly Upgrade

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have switched on NASA's newly upgraded Cold Atom Lab, a one-of-a-kind facility designed to improve how.

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