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Hubble telescope spies 'peek-a-boo' exoplanets amid star's tilted dust rings

Astronomers are watching a shadow sweep across the face of a vast disc of planet-birthing gas and dust surrounding the star TW Hydrae.

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Australia’s first national space mission up in the air after federal budget cuts

Industry says the Albanese government is ‘defunding space programs without explanation’

The Guardian - AU

China launches Tianzhou 6 cargo ship to Tiangong space station

China's Tianzhou 6 freighter lifted off on May 10, sending clothing, food, water and propellant toward the country's Tiangong space station.

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Young star shoots out jet like a garden sprinkler in Orion Nebula (photo)

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope captured a snaking jet of matter expelled from a young stellar object in the Orion Nebula, a stellar nursery not far from our solar system.

Space

SpaceX launches 51 Starlink satellites, lands rocket on ship at sea

SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites toward orbit and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea today (May 10).

Space

JWST eyes new asteroid belt in Fomalhaut

The new space telescope is so powerful that it can spot not merely exoplanets, but distant asteroid belts as well

Salon

Northern Lights could be spotted in Scotland tonight due to powerful sun storm

A 'fairly large' ejection of space plasma could cause the light show to appear in our skies.

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SpaceX Ax-2 private astronaut mission will grow 1st stem cells in space

The Ax-2 mission will test the effect of microgravity in space on the growth of stem cells.

Space

The mystery of how Mars meteorites reach Earth may finally be solved

The mystery of how meteorites from Mars can reach Earth may have been solved, as scientists discover rocks can be hurled far from the Martian surface by giant impacts.

Space

What time is it on the moon? How a lunar clock debate led to an out-of-this-world timepiece

What time is it on the moon? One wristwatch tried to answer that question, yet was largely forgotten by history.

Space

China to launch communications relay satellite to the moon in early 2024

Queqiao 2 ('Magpie Bridge 2') will launch early next year and will be used to support China's upcoming Chang'e 6, 7 and 8 robotic moon missions.

Space

Rare 'backward' sunspot could create supercharged auroras this week

A reverse polarity sunspot is continuing to bombard Earth with powerful solar flares and ejections of plasma that could create auroras as far south as the mid-latitudes of the globe on May 10 and 11.

Space

Enormous M87 galaxy looks like giant potato in 1st-ever 3D map (image)

Astronomers have created a 3D map of the massive elliptical galaxy Messier 87 and gotten a better estimate of the mass of its central supermassive black hole.

Space

The Eta Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight. Stay up late and wish upon a falling star

The annual Eta Lyrid meteor shower lasts from May 3 to May 14 this year and will produce its most prominent displays on Tuesday.

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Meet 'Scary Barbie,' a black hole slaughtering a star in the brightest way possible

Astronomers detected one of the brightest and most energetic cosmic objects ever observed in the form of a star being torn to shreds by a supermassive black hole.

Space

NASA may shift New Horizons Pluto probe to sun-studying mission

The future of NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is uncertain following debates at NASA over how best to use the spacecraft.

Woman & Home

Gemini season 2023: When does the airy season start and how will it guide your star sign?

Gemini season 2023 is all about being a social butterfly and forging ahead with new connections, relationships, and networks

Space

NASA platform used to launch Apollo 11 to the moon set for demolition

NASA's Mobile Launch Platform-3, from which the first astronauts departed Earth to fly around and land on the moon now, itself, only has a limited time left on the planet.

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The 1st photo of Earth from Europe's powerful new satellite is amazing

Europe's newest weather satellite has snapped an image of the Earth from space, revealing our planet in incredible detail.

The Hindu

Aging star Fomalhaut found surrounded by detritus of shattered worlds

The observations of three concentric dusty rings of debris orbiting Fomalhaut provide the fullest view to date of such structures outside our solar system.

The Hindu

People are complaining about Mercury in retrograde. But what does it actually mean?

what does it mean when we say Mercury is “in retrograde”?

ABC News

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spies debris belts around Fomalhaut star

Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal three debris belts around a nearby young star named Fomalhaut — the first such features seen outside of our solar system.

Space

Powerful sun storm could supercharge auroras this week

The sun fired a huge cloud of plasma directly at Earth on Sunday evening (May 7), an outburst that could boost auroras in the next day or so.

The Hindu

Class X toppers: While Bhoomika aspires to become an astronaut, farmer’s grandson fulfills his dream

One State topper in the Class X exam, Bhoomika aspires to become an astronaut, and another fulfills his gradnfather’s dream

Space

The moon's heart of iron revealed for the 1st time

New research has revealed the heart of the moon as never seen before, demonstrating that it has a solid core that is composed of iron like Earth.

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