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Voyager 2: Nasa fully back in contact with lost space probe ( www.bbc.co.uk )

Highly distorted galaxies by JWST ( lemmy.ml )

This is El Gordo, a NIRCam medium deep field of a galaxy cluster contains hundreds of galaxies that existed when the universe was 6.2 billion years old....

Variable stars can tell us where and when to search for extraterrestrials ( phys.org )

James Webb Space Telescope spies giant cosmic question mark in deep space (photo) ( sh.itjust.works )

James Web telescope finds giant question mark galaxy in deep space.

Ryugu asteroid samples reveal traces of rock from before the Sun existed ( arstechnica.com )

When JAXA’s Hayabusa-1 spacecraft delivered samples from asteroid Ryugu to Earth in late 2020, anticipation was high. What could the space rock possibly be waiting to tell us?...

Voyager 2: Nasa loses contact with record-breaking probe after sending wrong command ( www.bbc.com )

Astronomers puzzled by ‘weird’ planet whose atmosphere is being ripped off by its sun ( www.independent.co.uk )

Astronomers are perplexed by a strange young planet so close to its parent star that its atmosphere is evaporating and its orbit is changing in unpredictable ways....

Sun Launches Spectacular Coronal Mass Ejection in 4K 60fps ( www.youtube.com )

“On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth’s magnetic...

NASA is launching its own streaming service later this year ( techcrunch.com )

NASA temporarily loses contact with one of its most distant spacecraft | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )

NASA, DARPA Partner with Industry on Mars Rocket Engine ( www.nasa.gov )

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Boeing’s Starliner losses total $1.5 billion with NASA astronauts still waiting to fly ( www.cnbc.com )

How (Nearly) Nothing Might Solve Cosmology’s Biggest Questions ( www.quantamagazine.org )

By measuring the universe’s emptiest spaces, scientists can study how matter clumps together and how fast it flies apart.

The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion ( arstechnica.com )

Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter....

A new, Jupiter-size planet is on the verge of being born, and astronomers have incredible images of it ( www.livescience.com )

Sex in space: Why it's worrying that the space tourism sector hasn't considered the consequences ( phys.org )

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.

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