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Broadcasting signals from the edge of the cosmos.
Black holes, galaxies, alien whispers — decoded here.
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Falcon 9’s upper stage is now heading back toward the Moon as NASA and SpaceX track its unexpected flight path. 🚀
Why You Can Bare-Handedly Grab a 2,300°F Space Tile NASA’s Space Shuttle thermal protection tiles are engineering marvels designed to endure re-entry temperatures exceeding 2,300°F (1,260°C).
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This isn't a laser... it's a Pulsar. Meet PSR J1748−2446ad, the fastest known pulsar ever discovered. 🌀 It spins 716 times every second, and its surface moves at nearly 24% the speed of light. Every rotation sends powerful beams of electromagnetic radiation across space like a giant cosmic lighthouse. 🌌
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Near a black hole, time doesn’t just pass… it warps. As described by Albert Einstein, intense gravity slows time dramatically—what feels like seconds near the edge could be years far away. In this cosmic abyss, even time struggles to escape.
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This is how a Falcon 9 lands in the middle of the ocean. This spectacular shot, captured from the autonomous platform "Of Course I Still Love You," shows the moment the first stage of a Falcon 9 rolls down.
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Sights from space never lose their ability to amaze. There is something profoundly meditative about simply watching the Earth. You can sit by the window for hours, saying nothing, thinking about nothing, and yet feel completely immersed. On Earth, a quiet mind is a rare luxury. In orbit, it comes almost effortlessly.
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🌍 Planet Temperatures Across Our Solar System 🌌 🔥 Venus: 464°C 🌍 Earth: 15°C 🧊 Pluto: −225°C
Starship view form Starling satellite 🛰️
There’s a star tearing this cloud apart - and almost no one has ever photographed it. Meet RCW 105.
NASA and SpaceX advance wind tunnel tests for Starship rocket! NASA and its industry partners are preparing for next year’s Artemis III demonstration mission by completing new wind tunnel tests on SpaceX’s Super Heavy Version 3 rocket booster. The tests, conducted at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, focused on better understanding the extreme aerodynamic forces the rocket can experience during re-entry. The recent test series builds on previous testing completed at NASA Ames in 2024.
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There is very likely a planet in our own solar system that nobody has ever seen. Planet Nine: five to ten times the mass of our world, and we know it is there because everything past Neptune is moving wrong.
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Scientists May Have Found the Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Yet.
🚀 THREE GIANTS HEADING TOWARDS SPACE! The Falcon 9 took off carrying the BlueBird 11, 12, and 13 satellites from AST SpaceMobile, on a mission that could help transform mobile phone coverage around the globe.
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An abandoned SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the Moon… 🌕🚀 Years after completing its mission, the rocket was left drifting through space. Now, gravity has pulled it onto a path that ends with an impact on the lunar surface. While it poses no danger to Earth, scientists hope the collision will reveal new clues hidden beneath the Moon’s dusty surface.
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The sun is four million tons lighter than it was one second ago, and nothing took the mass. It is not on fire: a coal sun this bright would go dark in a few thousand years. In the core, hydrogen is pressed into helium, and the helium comes out weighing slightly less. That missing sliver is the four million tons.
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🔥🚀 10,000-Pound Lander Engine Gets Built NASA's InRoDES project is building a rotating detonation rocket engine for a problem future Mars crews may care about most: getting home. The agency says traditional engines need massive amounts of propellant, which is heavy and hard to transport on long missions.
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A star drifts too close to a black hole… and there is no escape. The black hole’s immense gravity stretches the star into a long stream of superheated gas, pulling it apart strand by strand in a violent process known as spaghettification. What was once a brilliant star becomes fuel for one of the most extreme objects in the universe. This is how a black hole eats a star.
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A Smart Dragon-3 rocket lifted off from China, successfully placing two hyperspectral satellites into orbit.
