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BREAKING 🚨: NEW footage shows interstellar object 3I/ATLAS from Mars orbit Mind blowing this came from another star system 🤯 (via ESA)
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HS ATHLETES: Social media can EITHER open doors… or slam them shut. Every post. Every like. Every retweet — it all says something about you. Coaches notice EVERYTHING. Be the kid they want to bet on. 💯
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SpaceX has more than 8,000 currently in operation. More than 2,000 launched this year alone. "With all constellations deployed, we can expect about 30,000 low-Earth orbit satellites (Starlink, Amazon Kuiper, others) and perhaps another 20,000 satellites at 1,000 km [620 miles]
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NEWS 🚨: Smithsonian astrophysicist says there are now 1-2 Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every single day
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BREAKING 🚨: NEW footage shows interstellar object 3I/ATLAS from Mars orbit Mind blowing this came from another star system 🤯 (via ESA)
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Insane video of Starlink sats positioning themselves in orbit around Earth Seen from the ISS via astronaut Don Pettit
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🔗 “JUICE will observe 3I/ATLAS between 2 and 25 November. We will be using 5 instruments: the camera, the near-infrared imaging instrument, the UV spectrometer, the sub-millimetre instrument, and a sensor to image neutral atoms. We are far away (0.5 Astronomical units),
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BREAKING 🚨: ESA says its JUICE spacecraft will photograph interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS while on its way to Jupiter 'Sometime between Nov. 2 and 25'
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NEWS 🚨: Bill Nye was on the Hill yesterday advocating against the 47% cut to NASA's science budget purposed by the Trump admin “To reject science is unpatriotic”
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Ring rain is a gradual process where gravity pulls the icy particles from Saturn's rings into the planet's upper atmosphere. As these icy chunks enter the atmosphere, they are vaporized. This process is slow but will eventually lead to Saturn's rings becoming virtually
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🚨 NASA research revealed Saturn is losing its rings at a “worst-case-scenario” rate Projected to be ringless in the very dissent future
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Unfortunately, under shutdown rules, only missions that protect life, property, or national security can continue. The Juno mission at NASA doesn't fall under any of these protected categories. This could be the end of a historic decade of science and incredible imagery from
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BREAKING 🚨: NASA’s Juno probe around Jupiter is in serious trouble Since the end of its mission on Sept 30, the same day the U.S. government shut down, there's no one at NASA communicating or controlling the spacecraft Critical for keeping it stable, collecting data, and
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NEWS 🚨: JWST captures clearest-ever image of M87 galaxy's supermassive black hole jet Tens of thousands of light years long 😱
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BREAKING 🚨: Another image of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas taken from Mars
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Top of Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii from space last week
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