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An exoplanet named WASP-127b just smashed the cosmic wind record. Astronomers clocked supersonic gales racing around its waist at about 20,500 miles (33,000 kilometers) per hour, which is seven times faster than fighter‑jet speed. “There is an extremely fast circumplanetary jet wind found on the planet. The velocity of the winds is surprisingly high,” said Lisa Nortmann of the University of …

Update (8:52 p.m.) – SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base Friday night. It took off at 8:52 p.m. and carried 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit. ————————— SpaceX is preparing for its second launch of the week from Vandenberg Space Force Base. A Falcon 9 carrying 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit is scheduled …

Astronomers caught a star system at the moment when solid grains began to form planets. This snapshot reveals how planets first start to form, just as Earth once did. The infant star HOPS-315 sits about 1,300 light-years, roughly 7.6 quadrillion miles, away in the constellation Orion. Around it whirls a disc of gas and dust where heat is high enough …

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the Abell 3558 galaxy cluster, revealing a peculiar mini-halo structure. This mini-halo, located in the cluster’s center, was uncovered through a detailed series of radio observations. Abell 3558: A Massive And Complex Galaxy Cluster Abell 3558, often referred to as A 3558, is a massive galaxy cluster situated about 700 million light-years away. …

Less than three days before the Weizmann Institute of Science was struck by Iranian missiles, several dozen members of the Israeli space community gathered there for the first public presentation of a particularly unique and ambitious Israeli space mission: a plan to search for signs of life on one of Jupiter’s major moons — and possibly even venture further to …

Using the world’s most advanced radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered a spinning dead star so rare, strange and unique that they have dubbed it a “cosmic unicorn.” The unique properties of this object, CHIME J1634+44, challenge our current understanding of spinning dead stars and their environments. CHIME J1634+44, also known as ILT J163430+445010 (J1634+44), is part of a class of …

Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune. The object, designated 2020 VN40, is part of a family of distant solar system objects called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). 2020 VN40 is the first object discovered that orbits the sun once for every ten orbits Neptune makes. …

Even after pouring $2 billion into its much-maligned Starliner spacecraft, NASA and Boeing remain committed to getting back off the ground. As Ars Technica reports, the head of NASA’s commercial crew program, Steve Stich, revealed last week that Boeing and its propulsion supplier, Aerojet Rocketdyne, are making considerable changes to the astronaut shuttle following a disastrous first crewed mission to …

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