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Science • Jun 12

This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 12 – 21

FRIDAY, JUNE 12. □ Venus and Jupiter continue their twilight show, but that thing they had going together a few days ago just didn't seem to work out.

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Science • Jun 12

Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map (IMAGE)

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Science • Jun 12

Mars's missing water and atmosphere finally tracked down

Mars was once a wet planet with a thick atmosphere until both vanished. Now Mars's missing atmosphere and water may have finally been found.

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Science • Jun 12

'A redefinition of what it means ... to be alive': Sea cucumber tissue cut from the body still refuses to die

Sea cucumbers are having an unlikely viral moment after scientists discovered that tissue cut from their bodies can continue to live on its own for years,...

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Science • Jun 12

Scientists Uncover Why Walking Gets Slower and More Exhausting As We Age

A new study reveals that aging changes the body's walking strategy, prioritizing balance and safety over efficiency.

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Science • Jun 12

In September 2022 a NASA spacecraft deliberately crashed into a harmless asteroid 11 million kilometres away and shifted its orbit by about 32 minutes — the first time humans had ever moved another world, the moment planetary defence stopped being theo

On 26 September 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft struck Dimorphos, a roughly 150-metre moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos,...

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Science • Jun 12

Just 12.5 light years away, around a star so faint it was only discovered in 2003, sits one of the most Earth-like rocky worlds ever found in a habitable zone — and yet we still cannot answer the single question that decides everything: whether it has any atmosp

Teegarden's Star b is a planet of at least about 1.16 Earth masses, orbiting a red dwarf about 12.5 light-years away in the constellation Aries.

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Science • Jun 12

Giant Underground Detector Releases First Major Findings on Ghost Particles

NEW YORK (AP) – A massive underground detector aimed at understanding the mysterious ghost particles in our universe released its first major results on...

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Science • Jun 12

Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory Achieves First Physics Breakthrough, Published in Nature

In a landmark achievement for experimental particle physics, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) collaboration, spearheaded by the...

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Science • Jun 12

Geologists Went Looking For Gold. They Found Something Far Rarer.

When you're prospecting for gold, sometimes you can find treasure of a different kind. That's what happened in the desert of Western Australia,...

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Science • Jun 12

Aliens might exist. But there are three reasons why they’re not visiting us

The nature of space, time and the evolution of life on Earth mean it's unlikely extraterrestrial life has visited our home planet.

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Science • Jun 12

Alan Hale, Sky Watcher Who Created a Comet Sensation, Dies at 68

Alan Hale, who wheeled a telescope out of his New Mexico garage on July 23, 1995, and spotted a fuzzy object in the constellation Sagittarius,...

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Science • Jun 12

Scientists prise open secret of how flytrap enjoys a quick bite

'I'm unaware of any other plants with this rapid change of mechanical properties of the cells' Yoël Forterre Physicist.

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Science • Jun 11

Cosmic dawn fuel discovery unlocks early galaxy growth secrets

Astronomers have discovered a huge reservoir of cold molecular gas, the direct fuel for star formation, in REBELS-25, a massive, star-forming galaxy.

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Science • Jun 11

Former band director speaks on Chesapeake native being selected for Artemis III space mission

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — A student who led by example — that's how former Western Branch High School marching band director Jonathan Hargis described his...

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Science • Jun 11

The Shape of a Black Hole

Here's something that might stop you in your tracks. Black holes have a temperature! Just think about that.. We are not talking about the temperature of the...

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Science • Jun 11

Threads of Earth’s Underground Fungal Networks Are Long Enough to Reach Beyond the Solar System

Hidden underground around the world lie 110 quadrillion kilometers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks—webs of ultra-thin threads that, if connected...

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Science • Jun 11

James Webb Reveals a Black Hole Star Inside a Little Red Dot

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted its best-ever example of a mysterious “black hole star” hidden inside a tiny red dot in the distant universe.

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Science • Jun 11

Light echoes reveal possible dark matter buildup around supermassive black holes

We may not know what dark matter is, but we keep getting whiffs of it. "We are reaching a point where the observational evidence for dark matter is simply...

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Science • Jun 11

JAXA’s shape-shifting micro rover LEV-2 completes 108-minute autonomous drive on Moon

Baseball-sized LEV-1 and LEV-2 relay images from lunar surface in Science Robotics report.

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