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Congratulations to Scott Waitukaitis on his award.
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Taking a moment to remember a very special Earthling -- Laika, the first creature to orbit the Earth, on the 68th anniversary of her voyage aboard Sputnik 2. By all accounts, she was a very good girl.

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN to ALL creatures everywhere!!!
Please be safe out there and have lots of fun!!!
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This nurse jerry-rigged a trach tube to keep a wounded Marine alive Mary Hawkins spent 13 months flying the wounded out of the Pacific Theater, becoming one of the few women to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Mary Hawkins spent 13 months flying the wounded out of the Pacific Theater, becoming one of the few women to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Northern Lights Forecast: 10 States Could See Aurora Borealis Wednesday Wednesday night’s curved viewing line nearly reaches the border of Minnesota and Iowa.

Wednesday night’s curved viewing line nearly reaches the border of Minnesota and Iowa.

Is It Time to Classify Hurricanes as Category 6? Hurricane Melissa’s powerful winds and drenching rains devastated Jamaica. But is its wrath a sign that we need a new designation for monster storms?

Hurricane Melissa and the knotty problem of hurricane categories: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...

A protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star, showing jets and dust indicative of planet formation. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, Tazaki et al.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on Flickr (Feb 4, 2025)

Webb reveals the edge-on protoplanetary disc of HH 30, showcasing jets and dust that are essential in the planet formation process.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on Flickr (May 13, 2014)

NASA engineers conduct a low light test on the micro shutter array at Goddard Space Flight Center. This technology allows Webb's Near Infrared Spectrograph to analyze more than 100 objects at once.

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Alien worlds may be able to make their own water Ocean planets could arise from rocks reacting with thick hydrogen atmospheres, lab experiments show

NEW: Some alien worlds orbiting right next to their stars seem to have a lot of water—but how?

A new study, using lasers and diamond anvils, has a wild answer: they are making all that water themselves by mixing hydrogen skies with magmatic hearts.

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Argentina’s move to woo Trump has derailed South America’s largest radio telescope U.S.-Chinese tensions have left nearly complete observatory in limbo, jeopardizing research into pulsars and other celestial objects

Construction of the 40-m China-Argentina Radio Telescope (CART) has halted, when already 90% complete.

The facility is caught up in Argentine president Javier Milei's attempt to secure an economic aid package from the US, which objects to China's involvement. 🔭
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GM Laying Off 1,700 At Electric Vehicle And Battery Plants, Citing ‘Slower’ EV Adoption The job cuts will take place at an EV plant in Detroit and a battery plant in Ohio.

The job cuts will take place at an EV plant in Detroit and a battery plant in Ohio.

The Nissan Sakura Extending Solar Roof Could Add A Surprising Amount Of EV Range Nissan has revealed a solar-charging roof for its best-selling Sakura EV, which promises to add up to 1,860 miles of free range per year.

Sure, it looks like a giant sunshade. But getting 36 miles of free, extra EV range per week sounds great, though.

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X-59 on the ramp in Palmdale

Flight path of X-59 first flight from Palmdale.

Airborne! The NASA X-59 QueSST is making its first flight. The aircraft is uniquely shaped to fly supersonically without making a loud sonic boom. www.flightradar24.com/NASA859/3cdc...

The design and reconstructible history of the Mayan eclipse table of the Dresden Codex Mayan calendar specialists anticipated solar eclipses by correlating their occurrences with dates in their 260-day calendar.

Scientists explain how Maya calendar specialists developed their eclipse tables with centuries-long accuracy.

Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/3L0co3m

Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is a non-traditional form of precision machining that uses thermal energy instead of mechanical force to remove material from a workpiece.

A new minimoon for Earth may be a Chinese lunar mission Also, Earth is getting darker, which is never a good sign

Earth has a new minimoon! No, not that one, this is a different one. But it may not be natural, and instead come from an advanced spacefaring civilization.

[Us. I mean us.]

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This visualization explores the Orion Nebula as seen in visible-light observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. This movie is designed to be compared and contrasted against the companion movie using infrared-light observations from the Spitzer Space... Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Visible Light

This visualization explores the Orion Nebula as seen in visible-light observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. These high-resolution visible observations show fine details including the wispy bow shocks and tadpole-shaped proplyds. 🔭 🧪

China Unveils World’s First Underwater Data Center for Sustainable AI China's HiCloud has launched the world's first underwater data center off Shanghai, powered 95% by offshore wind and cooled by ocean currents, cutting energy use by 23% and emissions. This $226 millio...

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Lightning flashes within the powerful eye wall of Hurricane Melissa.

Incredible imagery this morning of Melissa, a Category 5 storm, south of Jamaica.

"Smack in the middle of these objects, there is a lot of dark matter. If the dark matter is made of particles that annihilate among themselves, then when two particles annihilate, they turn into something else. The stuff that comes out interacts with hydrogen and gets stuck inside this collapsing cloud and turns it, instead, into a star." —Dr. Katherine Freese

Instead of being powered by nuclear fusion, ancient "dark stars" would have formed by mixing hydrogen, helium, and a type of self-annihilating dark matter. That's if they existed, of course: buff.ly/Uc24214

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of NASA's first space servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, we are sharing this gallery of images from all five of the Hubble servicing missions. Astronauts serviced Hubble for the first time in December 1993. Including that trip, there have been five astronaut servicing missions to Hubble between 1993 and 2009. How did astronauts repair and service the Hubble Space Telescope more than 300 miles above the surface of the Earth? Watch Hubble astronauts as they discuss servicing from the innovative Robotics Operations Center: bit.ly/2EiiNTP STS103-713-015 (19-27 December 1999) --- The Sun reflects off the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) above the Space Shuttle Discovery's cargo bay in Earth orbit. A thin slice of Earth's horizon runs across the photograph. Credit: NASA NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter

Hubble Servicing Missi#2571 - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/PEhAGX

Webb's infrared view of the Crab Nebula, featuring a complex structure of gas filaments and a bright central neutron star. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, T. Temim (Princeton University)

ESA/Webb (@esa.int) images (Oct 30, 2023)

The Crab Nebula, captured by Webb, displays a complex arrangement of gas filaments and the bright pulsar at its center, highlighting the remnants of a supernova.

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Hurricane Melissa Is the Third Category 5 Storm This Year—That’s Only Happened Once Before This is only the second time we’ve had more than two Category 5 storms in a single Atlantic hurricane season

This is only the second time we’ve had more than two Category 5 storms in a single Atlantic hurricane season

Wings of Legacy: Naval Aviators Reflect on 250 Years of U.S. Naval Heritage at NAS Oceana Air Show At the recent 2025 Oceana Air Show, Navy pilots shared stories that link the service’s airborne innovation to a 250-year tradition of courage and

Wings of Legacy: Naval Aviators Reflect on 250 Years of U.S. Naval Heritage at NAS Oceana Air Show

At the recent Oceana Air Show, Navy pilots shared stories that link the service’s airborne innovation to a 250-year tradition of courage and adaptability.

Story: theaviationist.com/2025/10/26/w...

What Excel Can Teach Us About AI And The Future Of Work How the rise of AI agents mirrors the spreadsheet revolution, and how today's leaders can prepare for the coming challenges.

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In celebration of the 25th anniversary of NASA's first space servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, we are sharing this gallery of images from all five of the Hubble servicing missions. Astronauts serviced Hubble for the first time in December 1993. Including that trip, there have been five astronaut servicing missions to Hubble between 1993 and 2009. How did astronauts repair and service the Hubble Space Telescope more than 300 miles above the surface of the Earth? Watch Hubble astronauts as they discuss servicing from the innovative Robotics Operations Center: bit.ly/2EiiNTP STS103-713-048 (19-27 December 1999) --- Astronauts Steven L. Smith, and John M. Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide scene photographed during extravehicular activity (EVA). On this space walk they are replacing gyroscopes, contained in rate sensor units (RSU), inside the Hubble Space Telescope. A wide expanse of waters, partially covered by clouds, provides the backdrop for the photograph. Credit: NASA NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter

Hubble Servicing Missi#2575 - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/2c2HUVV

Engineers cleaning a telescope mirror using carbon dioxide snow. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on Flickr (Jan 22, 2015)

Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center employ carbon dioxide snow to safely clean the James Webb Space Telescope's mirror, ensuring optimal performance.

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AI drones in Ukraine — this is where we're at Ukraine’s drones are setting new standards for self-piloting on the battlefield. Full autonomy, however, remains well out of reach — and is likely to stay there. The broader vision of drones operatin...

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The International Space Station has tracked Hurricane Matthew all week, providing images and video from low Earth orbit as the storm hit the Caribbean Sea and made its way towards Florida. In this photograph taken by Expedition 49 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins on Oct. 4, 2016, at 21:05 GMT, the hurricane's clouds extend across the frame and the space station's solar arrays are visible at the upper-right corner of the image. As the hurricane strengthens and approaches the Florida coast, NASA and NOAA satellites continue to provide forecasters and scientists valuable data on the development and changes in the storm. For more information about Hurricane Matthew, click here. NASA Media Usage Guidelines

Space Station Flyover of Hurricane Matthew - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/MMZDtA

Ariane 5 rocket launching with the James Webb Space Telescope onboard from Guiana Space Centre. Credit: NASA, Chris Gunn

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on Flickr (Dec 25, 2021)

Ariane 5 rocket successfully launches NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on December 25, 2021, from Guiana Space Centre.

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