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NEWS 🚨: Astronomers have officially named an asteroid after "Weird Al" Yankovic
He joins Elvis, Freddie Mercury, Dolly Parton and the Beatles, who all have asteroids named after them
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NEWS 🚨: Astronomers found a black hole in our galaxy firing a jet of plasma directly toward Earth
The good news is the jet is spread too thin to affect us by the time it arrives 😅
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NEWS 🚨: Astronomers found a black hole in our galaxy firing a jet of plasma directly toward Earth
The good news is the jet is spread too thin to affect us by the time it arrives 😅
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The black hole called IRAS 18293-0941 is 10 times the Sun's mass and feeds on a companion star every 11 days!!
Astronomers have found that one jet points our way at 75% the speed of light, the other slams into a gas cloud with energies 100 times the Large Hadron Collider...🤯
Additional details soon at latestinspace.com.
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NEWS 🚨: Scientists have detected radio signals from an exoplanet for the first time ever
The planet, Beta Pictoris b, sits 63 light-years away and has a magnetic field 2,500x stronger than Earth's
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Full published study: arxiv.org/abs/2609.16720
(coffee recommended)
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NEWS 🚨: NASA is building a new space telescope called PRIMA that will see the universe in far-infrared, a part of the spectrum no telescope can currently capture
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🔗 Read NASA's full press release here latestinspace.com
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NEWS 🚨: Astronomers have officially named an asteroid after "Weird Al" Yankovic
He joins Elvis, Freddie Mercury, Dolly Parton and the Beatles, who all have asteroids named after them
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A fast stream of solar wind from a hole in the Sun's atmosphere arrives late tonight into Thursday morning.
NOAA forecasts a minor geomagnetic storm with an outside chance of moderate, which would push the aurora as far south as Iowa and New York.
More here soon: latestinspace.com
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NEWS 🚨: Astronomers just found a planet orbiting its star backwards, and nobody knows how it got that way
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GJ 3090 b, a Neptune-sized world 73 light-years away, circles its red dwarf in the opposite direction to the star's spin.
It's the first backward planet ever found around a small star!
More soon here: latestinspace.com 📩
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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman showed a mysterious aircraft during the portion of his All-In Summit presentation on rebuilding NASA’s X-plane portfolio ✈️
• Isaacman showed a dark silhouette resembling a next-generation SR-71 Blackbird while discussing 'radical airframe and engine designs'
• When asked if the image was the Blackbird, he responded: “You sure that’s the Blackbird?”
• NASA will soon be 'flying once again as high and as fast as we have from decades past, and then even more'
• He criticized NASA being forced to spend its aeronautics budget subsidizing 40-year-old contractor engines instead of pushing technological boundaries
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BREAKING 🚨: Albania has become the 73rd country to sign NASA's Artemis Accords
Agreeing to peace on the Moon, Mars, and beyond
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56 years ago today, the Soviet Union landed Luna 16 on the Moon, the first robot to bring lunar soil back to Earth 🌕
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Here's NASA's full Percy media archive: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multi…
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