#Spacecraft buzzes Jupiter’s mega moon, 1st close-up in years

#Spacecraft buzzes Jupiter’s mega moon, 1st close-up in years

“#Spacecraft buzzes Jupiter’s mega moon, 1st close-up in years” CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Juno spacecraft has provided the first close-ups of Jupiter’s largest moon in two decades. Juno zoomed past icy Ganymede on Monday, passing within 645 miles (1,038 kilometers). The last time a spacecraft came that close was in 2000 when NASA’s Galileo…

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#One of the brightest explosions ever recorded occurs in Earth’s ‘cosmic backyard’

#One of the brightest explosions ever recorded occurs in Earth’s ‘cosmic backyard’

“#One of the brightest explosions ever recorded occurs in Earth’s ‘cosmic backyard’” An international team of scientists used the High Energy Stereoscopic System in Namibia to get the best observation yet of one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts ever recorded.  The stellar explosion, dubbed GRB 190829A, happened just 1 billion lightyears away in the constellation of Eridanus, which may…

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#Virgin Galactic to fly researcher to space for conducting experiments

#Virgin Galactic to fly researcher to space for conducting experiments

“#Virgin Galactic to fly researcher to space for conducting experiments” British billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s spaceship company, Virgin Galactic Holdings said on Thursday it will fly researcher Kellie Gerardi to space for testing new healthcare technologies. Gerardi, a researcher with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences, will serve as a payload specialist and experiment with…

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#Can virtual reality help seniors? Study hopes to find out

#Can virtual reality help seniors? Study hopes to find out

“#Can virtual reality help seniors? Study hopes to find out” POMPANO BEACH, Fla.— Terry Colli and three other residents of the John Knox Village senior community got a trip via computer to the International Space Station in the kickoff to a Stanford University study on whether virtual reality can improve the emotional well-being of older…

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#Harvard scientist advocates for more funding into alien life, UFO research

#Harvard scientist advocates for more funding into alien life, UFO research

“#Harvard scientist advocates for more funding into alien life, UFO research” The government should be stowing away more money to look into the presence of extraterrestrial life, Harvard University professor and astrophysicist Avi Loeb argued Tuesday on “Fox News Primetime.” Loeb explained that the scientific community often ridicules the idea of alien existence. Meanwhile, he…

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#The NYT’s anti-science ‘science’ reporter, despicable cartoon

#The NYT’s anti-science ‘science’ reporter, despicable cartoon

“#The NYT’s anti-science ‘science’ reporter, despicable cartoon” Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions: SPOT THE DIFFERENCE: NY Post composite We say: The original headline — naked clickbait for the left, later changed — outraged many, thanks to author Michelle Goldberg’s blatant politicization of anti-Semitism, something that should be vile to everyone, regardless of partisan…

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#NASA’s VIPER rover to look for water, resources on moon

#NASA’s VIPER rover to look for water, resources on moon

“#NASA’s VIPER rover to look for water, resources on moon” NASA’s ambitious lunar program Artemis will send the agency’s first mobile robot to the moon in late 2023.  The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, also known as VIPER, would search the planet for ice and other resources on and below its surface that could potentially be harvested for long-term exploration in the future.  Using…

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