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Texas Eclipse Festival offers a 'choose your own adventure experience' for April total solar eclipse

Fri, 03/22/2024 - 4:00pm
The Texas Eclipse Festival will be unlike any camping experience you've ever imagined with its "out of this world" lineup of live music, arts, yoga, speakers and more.
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'Space headaches' are a literal pain for astronauts. Why do they happen?

Fri, 03/22/2024 - 3:00pm
Headaches are a common and recurring problem in space, even for astronauts that don't experience them on Earth.
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The Europa Clipper may only need 1 ice grain to detect life on Jupiter's ocean moon

Fri, 03/22/2024 - 2:00pm
A single icy moon grain could host tiny microbes or cellular remnants of life. If so, NASA's Europa Clipper may one day be able to find life near Jupiter.
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Save nearly $50 on these highly-rated astronomy binoculars

Fri, 03/22/2024 - 1:52pm
Start stargazing for less — Celestron Skymaster large astronomy binoculars are perfect for skywatching and are currently nearly $50 off on Amazon.
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Russian rocket launch of 3 astronauts to ISS targeted for March 23 after abort

Fri, 03/22/2024 - 1:42pm
A Russian Soyuz rocket is now scheduled to launch three astronauts toward the ISS on Saturday (March 23), two days after a rare abort scuttled its first try.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to tie reuse record with 19th launch on March 23

Fri, 03/22/2024 - 1:01pm
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch for a record-tying 19th time on Saturday evening (March 23), sending 23 Starlink internet satellites to orbit.
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'Quantum tornado' allows scientists to mimic a black hole on Earth

Fri, 03/22/2024 - 1:00pm
Scientists created a giant vortex made of tiny quantum parts in a helium superfluid just a few degrees above absolute zero. This "quantum tornado" helped them to bring black hole physics down to Earth.
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'Shiva and Shakti': The ancient star streams that helped weave the Milky Way

Fri, 03/22/2024 - 12:35pm
The Gaia space telescope has discovered two ancient stellar streams woven through the heart of the Milky Way, which were present 12 billion years ago.
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Boeing's 1st Starliner astronaut flight test for NASA could launch as soon as May 1

Fri, 03/22/2024 - 12:18pm
Boeing Starliner is ready to carry its first astronaut crew to the International Space Station. Two NASA astronauts will fly on the new spacecraft for a one-week mission in May.
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NASA's latest 'Curious Universe' podcast showcases our life-giving star

Fri, 03/22/2024 - 12:00pm
A preview of NASA's new "Curious Universe" podcast episode, "The Sun, Our Star."
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NASA suspends Swift gamma-ray space telescope operations

Fri, 03/22/2024 - 11:00am
NASA has shut down its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, but don't panic; this is only a temporary pause for the space telescope that has served the space agency since 2004.
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Hubble Space Telescope discovers 'failed stars' are bad at relationships too

Fri, 03/22/2024 - 6:00am
Using the Hubble astronomers found that "failed star" brown dwarfs struggle to maintain relationships as passing stars disrupt them like the cosmic equivalent of the distracted boyfriend meme.
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