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Planet found orbiting 3 stars at once, with giant dust rings (bigthink.com)
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It was long thought that planets couldn’t stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first counterexample.

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China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship (www.wired.com)
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Voyager's Historic Journey and Legacy (science.social)
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Voyager's Historic Journey and Legacy

https://joshuniverse.com/voyagers-historic-journey-and-legacy/

This article explores the journey, significance, and ongoing contributions of the Voyager spacecraft within the context of space exploration.

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China's Long March 10A Moon Mission Plans (science.social)
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China's Long March 10A Moon Mission Plans

https://joshuniverse.com/chinas-long-march-10a-moon-mission-plans/

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Rotating Black Holes: Beyond General Relativity (science.social)
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Rotating Black Holes: Beyond General Relativity

https://joshuniverse.com/rotating-black-holes-beyond-general-relativity/

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Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit (arstechnica.com)
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Gilmour Space Secures License for Eris Rocket Launch (science.social)
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Gilmour Space Secures License for Eris Rocket Launch

https://joshuniverse.com/gilmour-space-secures-license-for-eris-rocket-launch/

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Europe's most important rocket test almost foiled by a slice of cheese (interestingengineering.com)
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Voyager 1 loses contact with NASA, turns on retro transmitter not used since 1981 (www.livescience.com)
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For some reason, NASA is treating Orion’s heat shield problems as a secret (arstechnica.com)
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Hera asteroid mission's CubeSat passengers signal home (phys.org)
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NASA successfully integrates coronagraph for Roman Space Telescope (phys.org)
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Video Provides Rare Look Inside China’s Space Station (hackaday.com)
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NASA astronaut hospitalized after Crew-8 return (spacenews.com)
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Boeing reportedly considers selling off its space business (www.theverge.com)
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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18440429

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[Cody'sLab] Maybe Humans Should Not Go to Mars Yet (www.youtube.com)
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Recent unscripted video from Cody Reeder of Cody'sLab.

I don't agree with several of his points, but he raises some interesting issues nonetheless.

Any thoughts on the optimal ways to balance human space exploration with planetary protection?

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James Webb Space Telescope sees lonely supermassive black hole-powered quasars in the early universe (www.space.com)
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Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces (futurism.com)
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A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.

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New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from a single source (phys.org)
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Could Life Exist Below Mars Ice? NASA Study Proposes Possibilities (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
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Next Gen Starship (chrisprophet.substack.com)
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China launches plan to lead the world in space exploration (www.theregister.com)
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The 'Comet of the Century' Just Grew a Rare Anti-Tail (gizmodo.com)
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Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old (www.earth.com)
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Europa Clipper launch success on Monday (earthsky.org)
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Europa Clipper is NASA’s mission to explore one of Jupiter’s four large Galilean satellites. Europa has an icy outer crust that covers an ocean world. It holds twice as much water as Earth’s oceans. So, Scientists want to know more about the habitability – the ability for some form of live to exist – on this large moon.

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