"The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy."

— Steven Hawking

Astronomy

New Pollution Regulations Could Largely Eliminate Coal Power by the 2030s

Scientific American.com - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 4:00pm

The EPA has released four new pollution rules, most focusing on coal-fired power, as the final pieces of Biden’s push to clean up the power sector

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Lego reveals NASA Artemis rocket, Milky Way galaxy sets coming in May

Space.com - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 3:00pm
Get ready space fans, Lego is about to launch two sets that can take you from the moon to edge of our cosmic neighborhood: Lego Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System and Lego Art Milky Way Galaxy.
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How Temperate Forests Could Help Limit Climate Change

Scientific American.com - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 3:00pm

People understand how saving tropical forests is good for the planet, but temperate forests are equally indispensable in fighting climate change

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Ice-penetrating radar will help JUICE and other spacecraft find water beyond Earth

Space.com - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 2:00pm
When it arrives at Jupiter and the planet's moons in 2031, the JUICE spacecraft will use ice-penetrating radar to see beneath determine habitability.
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Birthplace of red asteroid Kamo‘oalewa pinned to specific moon crater

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 2:00pm
The redness of asteroid 469219 Kamo‘oalewa marks it out as probably originating on the moon, and now we might know the exact impact crater it was launched from
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'Rocket cam' takes you aboard final launch of ULA's Delta IV Heavy (video)

Space.com - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 1:00pm
After 64 years, the United Launch Alliance launched the final flight of its Delta IV Heavy rocket on April 9th, and stunning rocket cam footage captured the fiery finale.
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Navigating the Moon with Art

NASA Image of the Day - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 12:52pm
Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the LOLA simulator. Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface.
Categories: Astronomy, NASA

'I'm sure we'll find things out': NASA astronauts fly to launch site for 1st crewed Boeing Starliner mission to ISS on May 6 (photos)

Space.com - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 12:20pm
Veteran NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams expect to face the unexpected in space with Boeing Starliner, but told reporters on April 25 that the team is ready for the unexpected.
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Rat neuron injection lets mice that can’t smell sniff out cookies

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 12:00pm
Mice that had been genetically modified to lack the ability to smell could sniff out hidden cookies when sensory neurons from rats were grown in their brains
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We Are in the Golden Age of Bird-Watching

Scientific American.com - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 10:45am

There has never been a better time to be or become a birder

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First Ariane 6 booster gets lift to launch zone

ESO Top News - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 10:17am
Image: First Ariane 6 booster gets lift to launch zone
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An Indigenous Archaeologist’s Journey to Find the Lost Children of the Residential Schools

Scientific American.com - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 9:00am

How “heart-centered” archaeology is helping to find the Indigenous children who never came home from residential schools

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How to Filter Out Harmful ‘Forever Chemicals’ at Home

Scientific American.com - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 8:00am

An environmental engineer provides a glimpse of the magnitude of the challenge to remove PFAS from water supplies and ways you can reduce these “forever chemicals” in your own drinking water

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Extrovert or Introvert: Most People Are Actually Ambiverts

Scientific American.com - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 7:00am

Research on personality types in the middle of the extroversion-introversion scale is limited—yet the majority of people fall into this category

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Ariane 6 media kit

ESO Top News - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 5:04am

Ariane 6 media kit

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The Great Carina Nebula

APOD - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 4:00am

The Great Carina Nebula


Categories: Astronomy, NASA

ESA opens ideas factory to boost space innovation in Austria

ESO Top News - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 3:00am

A centre to innovate the design and manufacture of space hardware has today opened in Vienna. Driving commercialisation in space, it is the first of its kind of ESA-backed disruptive innovation centres outside ESA’s own premises.

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Hera asteroid mission’s side-trip to Mars

ESO Top News - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 1:37am

ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target Didymos binary asteroid system.

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