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Incredible time-lapse video shows 10 years of the sun's history in 6 minutes

By Brandon Specktor
Watch for the violent solar maximum in 2014 — you can't miss it.
https://www.space.com/solar-decade-time-lapse-video.html


The 60 minute video is pretty impressive.

 

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Comet NEOWISE could give skywatchers a dazzling show this month. Here's what to know.

By Joe Rao

https://www.space.com/comet-neowise-july-2020-night-sky-forecast.html

 

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[h=1]Pluto revealed: 5 years ago, NASA's New Horizons gave us our first close look at this distant world[/h][FONT=&quot]By Mike Wall
We had no idea Pluto was this diverse and dynamic.

https://www.space.com/pluto-flyby-new-horizons-fifth-anniversary.html
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[h=1]The moon is 85 million years younger than previously thought[/h][FONT=&quot]By Chelsea Gohd

https://www.space.com/moon-85-million-years-younger-than-thought.html
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[h=1]Why are scientists trying to manufacture organs in space?[/h][FONT=&quot]By Alysson R. Muotri

https://www.space.com/scientists-manufacturing-organs-in-space.html
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[h=1]The top space stories of the week![/h][FONT=&quot]By Doris Elin Urrutia

https://www.space.com/36316-the-most-amazing-space-stories-of-the-week.html
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NASA's inspector general raises questions with cost management of Orion spacecraft

By Leonard David
The OIG found that Orion has continued to experience cost increases and schedule delays.

https://www.space.com/nasa-orion-spacecraft-cost-inspector-general-report.html

 

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From the archives of Space.com

[h=1]Project Mercury: Photos of NASA's 1st Crewed Spaceflights[/h][FONT=&quot]By Space.com Staff February 17, 2012

https://www.space.com/14498-photos-...ceflights.html?amp_js_v=0.1&usqp=mq331AQCKAE=
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Re: News from Space.com

Rare ghostly particles produced inside the sun just detected under a mountain in Italy

By Diane Lincoln a day ago

https://www.space.com/rare-solar-cno-neutrinos-detected.html

 

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Oldest surviving light reveals the universe's true age

By Rafi Letzter

It is 13.77 billion years old, give or take 40 million years.

https://www.space.com/universe-expansion-atacama-hubble-constant-measurement.html

 

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Space.com
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Melting ice sheets will add over 15 inches to global sea level rise by 2100

By Chelsea Gohd
Greenland and Antarctica are melting.
https://www.space.com/melting-ice-sheets-sea-level-rise-2100.html

 

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Meet Calypso, a daredevil mission concept to explore the surface of Venus

By Paul Sutter
Just because it's hard doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.
https://www.space.com/venus-calypso-surface-survey-idea.html

 

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[h=1]Astronauts to film Estée Lauder skincare serum on International Space Station: report[/h][FONT=&quot]By Chelsea Gohd
https://www.space.com/estee-lauder-skincare-filming-on-space-station.html
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Nuclear fusion reactor could be here as soon as 2025

By Charles Q. Choi

https://www.space.com/nuclear-fusio...nDmKKgRBLrc2kCs3Tj7EQRqsyCr6tELJtJC0w6YIOn999

 

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NASA's first attempt to sample an asteroid in space made a mess. It's the best mess ever, scientists say.

By Tariq Malik
The OSIRIS-REx probe's encounter with asteroid Bennu appeared flawless.

"A NASA spacecraft has really made a mess of things on the asteroid Bennu, and scientists are thrilled."

https://www.space.com/nasa-osiris-rex-asteroid-bennu-sampling-results

 

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Why are galaxies different shapes?

By Donavyn Coffey

"Look into the night sky and you'll glimpse the stars from hundreds of billions of galaxies. Some galaxies are swirling blue disks like our own Milky Way, others are red spheres or misshapen, clumpy messes or something in between. Why the different configurations?"

https://www.space.com/why-are-galaxies-different-shapes.html

[FONT=&quot]An artist's impression of the Wolfe Disk, a massive disk galaxy in the early universe.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](Image: © NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello)[/FONT]

 

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Unless you are a real science geek the article below might make you go HUH???

Higgs boson possibly caught in act of never-before-seen transformation

By Rafi Letzter

"Scientists may have observed the Higgs boson doing a new trick: creating pairs of muons."

A simulation illustrates Higgs boson decay in the Large Hadron Collider.
(Image: © Lucas Taylor/CMS)

 

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Meet the zeptosecond, the shortest unit of time ever measured

By Stephanie Pappas
https://www.space.com/zeptosecond-shortest-time-unit-measured.html


Scientists have measured the shortest unit of time ever: the time it takes a light particle to cross a hydrogen molecule.

That time, for the record, is 247 zeptoseconds. A zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second, or a decimal point followed by 20 zeroes and a 1.

A particle of light, called a photon (yellow arrow), produces electron waves out of an electron cloud (grey) of a hydrogen molecule (red: nucleus). The result of those interactions is what’s called an interference pattern (violet-white). The interference pattern is slightly skewed to the right, allowing researchers to calculate the time for the photon to get from one atom to the next.
(Image: © Sven Grundmann/Goethe University Frankfurt)

 

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SpaceX now targeting Nov. 14 for next astronaut launch

By Hanneke Weitering - Associate Editor

SpaceX is gearing up for another historic astronaut launch next month.

https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-1-astronaut-launch-november-14

NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi will fly on the Crew-1 mission, currently scheduled to launch on Nov. 14, 2020.
(Image: © NASA)

 

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Will our solar system survive the death of our sun?

By Paul Sutter

It's gonna get ugly.

https://www.space.com/solar-system-fate-when-sun-dies

An artist's depiction of the solar system as it appears today.
(Image: © NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab)

"Our sun's death is a long way off — about 4.5 billion years, give or take — but someday it's going to happen, and what then for our solar system?

The trouble begins before the death proper: The first thing we have to contend with is the elderly sun itself. As the fusion of hydrogen continues inside the sun, the result of that reaction — helium — builds up in the core..."