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The Ursids peak tonight, offering the last meteor shower of 2023 tonight

The annual December meteor shower, the Ursids, peaks overnight on Dec. 22, allowing skywatchers willing to brave the cold the chance to spot meteors streaking through the sky ahead of Santa Claus.

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Get ready for the spectacular ursids meteor shower finale!

Catch the stunning celestial spectacle of the ursids meteor shower, Mother Nature's final show of 2023. No equipment needed, just look up and be mesmerized...

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What's the ‘Christmas Star’ and how to observe it this December

Here’s what the bright star in the east after dark is and why it has appeared just in time for the holidays

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Distant nebula looks like fleeing turkey in festive new Very Large Telescope photo

A festive image from the Very Large Telescope shows the clouds of the 'Running Chicken Nebula' looking like a turkey fleeing a cosmic Christmas dinner.

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Chinese startup LandSpace poised to begin reusable rocket landing tests

Chinese launch startup Landspace appears ready to test launching and landing rockets from China's Gobi Desert.

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Hubble Telescope gifts us a dazzling starry 'snow globe' just in time for the holidays

NASA has published a composite image of UGC 8091, a dwarf irregular galaxy using data captured by the Hubble Space Telescope from 2006 to 2021. It has been compared to Christmas lights or a snow globe.

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SpaceX launch of Axiom Space's 3rd private astronaut mission delayed to Jan. 17

The SpaceX launch of Axiom Space's Ax-3 private astronaut mission to the International Space Station has been delayed by eight days, to Jan. 17.

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Astronomers discover strangely missing stars in galaxies near Milky Way

A newfound population of stars in nearby dwarf galaxies are the long-sought precursors of hydrogen-poor supernovas.

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Private moon lander's SpaceX launch delayed a month, to February

Intuitive Machines will wait an extra month, until mid-February 2024, to send a private moon lander into space atop a SpaceX rocket.

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Astronomers Used This Old Tech To Snapshot An Elusive Gamma-Ray Beam

Not all scientific breakthroughs are high-tech ones.

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How to watch the International Space Station fly over London on Christmas Day

You'll need to be up bright and early on Christmas morning to see the third brightest object in the sky

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Steve Wozniak's start-up Privateer develops ride-sharing spacecraft to reduce orbital clutter

Steve Wozniak's space sustainability start-up Privateer launched a prototype of its Pono space module to encourage users to share 'stuff' in space.

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This 1.5-Billion-Pixel Image Captures the Running Chicken Nebula in an Angle Most Fowl

A new image from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Survey Telescope, or VST, captures it in all its avian-like glory.

Inverse

Can stars form around black holes?

Black holes create some of the most extreme environments in the cosmos — can stars form in such conditions?

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Watch the 'Christmas Tree Cluster' twinkle in X-rays (video)

The twinkling lights of the Christmas Tree Cluster tell us about the science going on there.

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Virgin Galactic to launch 6th commercial spaceflight on Jan. 26

Virgin Galactic plans to launch its sixth operational spaceflight on Jan. 26, 2024 with four passengers, who are yet to be named.

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SpaceX fires up giant Starship rocket ahead of 3rd test flight (video)

SpaceX conducted a static fire test today (Dec. 20) with Ship 28, a prototype that's being readied to make the third test flight of the Starship program.

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NASA’s Moon Mission is Delayed: The Kiplinger Letter

NASA’s moon mission Artemis III, the first with humans in 50 years, will explore a region near the Moon’s South Pole.

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Artemis program will land international astronaut on the moon by end of 2020s, VP Harris says

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris pledged today (Dec. 20) that NASA's Artemis program will send a non-American to the lunar surface before this decade is done.

The Hindu

Simulations and checks on ground and space key to Chandrayaan-3 success: Mission Director Srikanth

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists did a simulation on the ground before the launch and later did another round of checks of the systems in space before going ahead with the successful deployment of the lander on the dark side of the moon during the Chandrayaan-3 Mission, said its…

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In the quest to find alien life, scientists are searching for extrasolar Earth-Jupiter duos

Jupiter played a key role in life developing on Earth, so to boost the search for life outside the solar system, scientists have built a catalog of small, Earth-like planets with Jupiter-like siblings.

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Mars Express orbiter suggests evidence of ancient microbial life, water and volcanism on Red Planet

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has imaged the vast lava plains of Elysium Planitia, showing evidence of recent volcanism and proving the Red Planet has a turbulent past.

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Artemis 2 moon astronauts discuss 21st-century 'moonshots' with President Biden

New details about the Artemis 2 astronauts' White House meetings last week were released Dec. 19, on the eve of the new National Space Council meeting chaired by Vice-President Kamala Harris.

The Independent UK

International astronaut will be invited on future NASA moon landing

NASA and the White House say an international astronaut will be invited on a future moon landing

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Commercial Chinese rocket launches small returnable spacecraft to orbit (video)

The Chinese company iSpace's sixth Hyperbola-1 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center early Sunday (Dec. 17) morning, carrying a recoverable satellite to orbit.

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