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The Vulcan rocket checks off several important boxes for the Space Force. First, it relies entirely on US-made rocket engines. The Atlas V rocket it is replacing uses Russian-built main engines, and given the chilled relations between the two powers, US officials have long desired to stop using Russian engines to power the Pentagon’s satellites into orbit. Second, ULA says …

We’ve all been enjoying these bright full moons of summer, but a black moon is now on the rise. Not an official astronomical term, a black moon refers to the second new moon in a single calendar month, or the third of four in one astronomical season. It’s essentially the dark side of a blue moon. The Aug. 22 new …

Six planets — Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — will appear in a dark night sky together for almost a week, beginning Sunday, Aug. 17. The fairly rare “planetary parade,” which is sometimes mistakenly called a planetary alignment, will continue through Wednesday, Aug. 20. The celestial gathering, last seen in February, will appear in the eastern sky about …

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A space rock that punched a hole through a Georgia resident’s home earlier this summer may be 20 million years older than our planet, researchers say. The meteorite streaked across the sky as a fireball on June 26, just before a piece of it struck a house in the city of McDonough. A researcher at the University of Georgia (UGA) …

Room-Temperature Quantum Breakthrough Stuns Physicists  SciTechDaily Scientists freeze quantum motion without cooling  ScienceDaily High-purity quantum optomechanics at room temperature  nature.com World-first: Scientists unlock quantum state in objects at room temperature  Interesting Engineering New work achieves a pure quantum state without the need for cooling  Phys.org Source link

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Several astronomical events to be visible from Miami Valley  WHIO-TV The final ‘planet parade’ of 2025 rises Sunday. Here’s how to see the full 6-planet show.  Live Science ‘Planet Parade’ On Wednesday: When And Where To See Four Bright Planets  Forbes PHOTO: Planets align over the Continental Divide at dawn  Sky-Hi News Look to the night sky for two rare events  Everett Post Source link

One of the year’s most dazzling sky shows is about to peak as the annual Perseid meteor shower lights up the night — and you can enjoy the event live online. The Perseid meteor shower is expected to reach peak activity on Tuesday evening (Aug. 12) through the early morning hours of Wednesday (Aug. 13). The Virtual Telescope Project will …

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