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Hackers are Attacking Observatories ( www.universetoday.com )

JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe ( www.quantamagazine.org )

Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts.

New legged robots designed to explore planets as a team ( arstechnica.com )

While rovers have made incredible discoveries, their wheels can hold them back, and erratic terrain can mean damage. There is no replacing something like Perseverance, but sometimes rovers could use a leg up, and they could get that from a small swarm of four-legged robots.

Milky Way via my phone ( lemmy.world )

Xiaomi 12

The gravitational wave background of the universe has been heard for the 1st time ( www.space.com )

Jeff Bezos shows off new Moon lander design for NASA ( arstechnica.com )

James Webb telescope makes 'JuMBO' discovery of planet-like objects in Orion ( www.bbc.com )

Jupiter-sized “planets” free-floating in space, unconnected to any star, have been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

M51 (Webb) ( lemmy.world )

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Stoke Space successfully conducted a vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTVL) developmental test flight of their reusable second stage rocket ( www.stokespace.com )

Chandrayaan-3 Mission Soft-landing LIVE Telecast (23 Aug 2023 12:50 UTC+1) ( m.youtube.com )

Moon landing.

Incredible Neptune surface facts - Orbital Today ( orbitaltoday.com )

This was a really well written article describing what we know about Neptune.

NASA thinks space is teeming with planets that have gone rogue ( mashable.com )

Researchers find evidence of organic matter on Mars ( www.engadget.com )

Scientists beam solar power to Earth from space for 1st time ever ( www.space.com )

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NASA May Have Just Stumbled Upon the Mother of All Space Navigation Solutions ( www.autoevolution.com )

GIANT stands for Goddard Image Analysis and Navigation Tool, and it is basically an optical navigation software. That’s right, it uses images snapped by cameras, lidar, and other sensors to find the best way forward, kind of like we humans do when we use our eyes to see where we’re going....

Watch 2 NASA astronauts conduct 4th-ever all-female spacewalk on Nov. 1 ( www.space.com )

NASA solar spacecraft keeps on going faster and faster and faster | Mashable ( mashable.com )

NASA’s Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters ( www.jpl.nasa.gov )

Engineers for NASA’s Voyager mission are taking steps to help make sure both spacecraft, launched in 1977, continue to explore interstellar space for years to come....

Marslife.org, A panoramic travel guide to the ongoing robotic exploration of planet Mars ( lemmy.world )

See Mars from the rovers point of view.

Did India land spacecraft near moon’s south pole? Top China scientist says not ( amp.scmp.com )

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It’s Official. No More Astronomy at Arecibo. ( www.universetoday.com )

Instead, the NSF announced this week they have chosen four institutions to transition the site from its historic hub of astronomical research to a STEM educational outreach center, with a seeming focus on biology. A biomedical laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York along with the University of Maryland, Baltimore...

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