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This week, space weather has continued to produce vivid displays of the Northern Lights, which are even more amazing from 250 miles above Earth, where astronauts live and work. At least five strong solar flares with coronal mass ejection throughout the course of the weekend
While this is true for the majority of Milky Way stars, not all of them follow a calm and systematic orbit around the galactic center. Occasionally, a maverick is observed surpassing other players by traveling at a speed that will ultimately cause it to be
As the nation moves closer to its goal of landing a person on the moon by 2030, China’s Chang’e 6 robotic mission is scheduled to launch this week with the goal of returning samples from the moon’s far side for the first time. The Chang’e
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s upcoming sky survey’s next-generation asteroid discovery algorithm, HelioLinc3D, has found its first “potentially hazardous” asteroid, 2022 SF289. A space rock revelation calculation — intended to uncover close Earth space rocks for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s impending 10-year review of