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A Rare, Repeatedly Exploding Star Has Been Caught Producing Powerful Gamma Rays

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A rare star that repeatedly explodes appears to be also generating the most energetic form of light in the Universe. Analysis of an eruption from the binary system RS Ophiuchi has revealed that the shock wave expanding out into space acts as a particle accelerator that generates gamma radiation. This suggests the conditions that generate … Read more

Wastewater Monitoring Offers Powerful Tool for Tracking COVID and Other Diseases

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In 2020 experts at the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and other public health agencies watched a presentation that many thought was impractical at the time. Several companies proposed to regularly sample wastewater from sewers and treatment plants and run tests to detect SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19. People excrete the virus … Read more

Powerful GOES-T satellite launches to eye Earth’s weather, climate

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Scientists will soon have a powerful new set of eyes in the sky to study Earth’s weather and climate. The GOES-T satellite lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today (March 1) at 4:38 p.m. EST (2138 GMT), riding a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket into the final frontier. If all goes … Read more

Atlas V rocket will launch powerful GOES-T weather satellite today. Here’s how to watch live.

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A powerful Earth-observation satellite will launch to orbit today (March 1), and you can watch the action live. The GOES-T weather satellite is scheduled to lift off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today during a two-hour window that opens at 4:38 p.m. EST (2138 GMT).  … Read more

The Sun Has Erupted Non-Stop All Month, And There Are More Giant Flares Coming

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The past few weeks or so have been a very busy time for the Sun. Our star has undergone a series of giant eruptions that have sent plasma hurtling through space. Perhaps the most dramatic was a powerful coronal mass ejection and solar flare that erupted from the far side of the Sun on February … Read more

NASA space telescope spots most powerful light ever seen on Jupiter, helps solve 30-year-old mystery

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Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. In a new study, NASA’s NuSTAR space telescope spots the highest-energy light from Jupiter. (Image credit: Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC-BY) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS ) NASA has detected the most energetic light ever seen on Jupiter and, in the process, … Read more

Powerful Geomagnetic Storm Sends Dozens of SpaceX Satellites to a Fiery Doom

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A powerful geomagnetic storm has doomed 40 Starlink satellites launched by SpaceX last week, the company has announced. Elon Musk‘s company launched a Falcon 9 rocket bearing the 49 satellites from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday (Feb. 3), but a geomagnetic storm that struck a day later sent the satellites plummeting back toward Earth, … Read more

Powerful solar flare from recent sun eruption should reach Earth Wednesday

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A CME erupted on Jan. 30, 2022 and is set to arrive at Earth on Feb. 2, 2022.  (Image credit: SOHO) A powerful solar flare has been traveling through space and it will arrive at planet Earth Wednesday (Feb. 2).  In the early hours of Saturday morning (Jan. 30), a coronal mass ejection, a powerful … Read more

Astronomers detect powerful cosmic object unlike anything they’ve seen before

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Astronomers have discovered a mysterious, flickering object in our galaxy, the Milky Way, that belches enormous amounts of energy toward Earth three times an hour.  This strangely powerful object — located about 4,000 light-years from the sun — is unlike any cosmic structure ever observed, researchers wrote in a statement.  The object in question — named GLEAM-X J162759.5-523504.3 (but … Read more