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JWST Reveals the Complex Structure of Tc 1 and the Cosmic Origins of Buckyballs

dj — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:00:31 +0000

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope are providing the clearest and most detailed view yet of the environment where these carbon structures form and evolve.

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A Visitor From Someone Else’s Solar System Just Rewrote the Story of Water

dj — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:00:27 +0000

The water aboard 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar comet to visit our solar system, carries a chemical fingerprint radically different from anything in our own planetary neighborhood.

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SWOT and the Global Measurement of Rivers from Space

dj — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:10:54 +0000

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, commonly known as SWOT, provides the first capability to continuously measure rivers and surface water systems globally from space at high spatial resolution.

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The Chip That Will Let Spacecraft Think For Themselves

dj — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:00:10 +0000

NASA's High Performance Spaceflight Computing project is developing a radiation-hardened system-on-a-chip that promises to deliver up to 500 times the computational capacity of current spaceflight processors.

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NASA Said Artemis 3 Would Land on the Moon. Now It Won’t. Here’s Why That Makes Sense

dj — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:00:27 +0000

On May 13, 2026, NASA published new details about the Artemis 3 mission and the changes were striking enough to warrant attention not for what they added, but for what they removed.

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Understanding Airflow at the Edge of Flight: NASA’s High Lift Common Research Model

dj — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:10:55 +0000

Takeoff and landing places complex aerodynamic demands on the aircraft, particularly around the wing surfaces, flaps, and slats collectively known as high-lift systems. Understanding how air behaves around these structures is one of the most challenging problems in aerospace engineering.

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A Small World That Should Not Have An Atmosphere

dj — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:00:28 +0000

On May 4, 2026, a team led by Ko Arimatsu at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan published a paper in Nature Astronomy reporting the detection of an atmosphere on the trans-Neptunian object (612533) 2002 XV93.

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ESA Hera Spacecraft on Final Approach to Asteroid Didymos as DART Results Rewrite Planetary Defense Theory

dj — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:00:44 +0000

In the early hours of March 17, 2026, engineers at the European Space Agency watched as a spacecraft roughly 1.6 billion kilometers away executed the largest trajectory correction of its mission.

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Dracula’s Chivito: Hubble Reveals One of the Largest Protoplanetary Disks Ever Observed

dj — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:10:24 +0000

Roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth, astronomers have identified an enormous protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star system, a structure so large that it extends nearly 400 billion miles across.

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SpaceX Starship Version 3 Approaches Its Moment

dj — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:00:03 +0000

SpaceX has set no earlier than May 19, 2026, for the first flight of Starship in its Version 3 configuration.

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