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Saturn is doing something never seen before in our solar system | National | sfweekly.com

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Saturn's rings are heating its atmosphere, according to a new study. (NASA/ESA/Lotfi Ben-Jaffel(IAP & LPL) via SWNS) Scientists announced the finding on March 30, which they say has never been seen before in our solar system. A NASA spokesperson said: "The secret has been hiding in plain view for 40 years. Publisher: SFWeekly Date: lazyload refresh_timer Author: Talker News Twitter: @sfweekly Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Icy 'rain' from Saturn's rings is heating the gas giant's atmosphere | Space Icy "rain" from Saturn's rings is heating the gas giant's atmosphere, a phenomenon never seen in the solar system before, a new study suggests.  The unexpected discovery, which came as the result of examining data collected from various space missions including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope , the retired Cassini probe and the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, could help r

How to Watch Five Planets Align in the Night Sky This Week | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

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How to Watch Five Planets Align in the Night Sky This Week | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine If you're looking to check off sightings of several planets in the solar system, you're in luck: The planets have aligned. This week, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus will all appear in a small patch of the night sky. Periodically, several planets end up on the same side of the sun from our perspective here on Earth. When that happens, they might not all appear near each other in our sky, according to the astronomy guide app Star Walk . Publisher: Smithsonian Magazine Author: Smithsonian Magazine Twitter: @SmithsonianMag Reference: (Read more) Visit Source 'Planetary Parade': 5 planets to align in the night sky Publisher: FOX 35 Orlando Date: 2023-03-31 Twitter: @fox35news Reference: (Read more) Visit Source The Evening Sun | Five Planets Parade In March Night Sky Author: Evesun Reference: (Read more

LOCAL SMALL TOWN PREPARES FOR ALIEN INVASION: Alien Festival Returns to Small town of Spruce Pine, ...

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LOCAL SMALL TOWN PREPARES FOR ALIEN INVASION: Alien Festival Returns to Small town of Spruce Pine, ... UFO Enthusiast and Alien lovers will descend upon Downtown Spruce Pine, NC in the hopes of encountering extraterrestrials on June 10th, 2023. Show guests can shop from over 150 Local artists, crafters, nonprofits and Alien Vendors with unique handcrafted items featuring Space related goods made locally ranging from Space and Alien T-Shirts, Galactic gems & Jewelry, Area 51 wood signs, Meteors and decorative Glass products, ... Publisher: High Country Press Date: 2023-03-28T21:41:32 00:00 Author: Ken Twitter: @hcpress Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Happening on Twitter Students from a local school of a small town in Japan sowed a field of sunflowers, made oil from them, sold everyth… https://t.co/kUbiZ4uNHH saintjavelin (from Kyiv, Ukraine) Wed Mar 29 13:12:10 +0000 2023 Incred

Aviation to space technology, Russian regions bat for strong partnership with India

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A number of small aviation enterprises from the Samara Region – one of Russia’s most economically developed areas – are willing to supply and maintain light aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles for the needs of enterprises and government agencies in India. Publisher: Indianarrative Date: 2023-03-31T14:39:58 00:00 Author: Ateet Sharma Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Oakland schools, STEM, science, space, technology In the school’s front office students chanted, “Faster, faster!” as a classmate was repeatedly spun upside-down on a Multiple Axis Simulator by Ivor Dawson of the Traveling Space Museum. Fourth-graders crawled inside the 6-foot-diameter flying saucer looking for extraterrestrials. Across the schoolyard, third-graders explored a full-scale Lunar Roving Vehicle, pretending to be moon explorers. Publisher: The Mercury News Date: 2023-03-31T17:27:51 00:00 Reference: (Read more) Visit Source

Hackers Claim to Dox Russian 'War Criminal,' Convince His Wife to Do 'Patriotic ...

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The hack led to an accusation by a Ukrainian official that the colonel is the war criminal responsible for the March 2022 attack on a civilian-packed theater in the city of Mariupol. The group is called Cyber Resistance and it said it started operating in 2014 and claims it has connections to the Ukrainian government, according to posts on its Telegram channel. Twitter: @vice Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Ukrainian hackers use Russian officer's wife's nudes to gather intel - The Jerusalem Post Publisher: The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com Twitter: @Jerusalem_Post Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Ukrainian hackers' hoax unmasks Russian pilots accused of Mariupol theatre bombing | The Week UK Publisher: The Week UK Author: Jamie Timson Twitter: @TheWeekUK Reference: (Read more) Visit Source North Korean hackers target popular banking software in South Korea: NIS | NK News Seoul'

NASA prepping for September arrival of OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample | Space

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OSIRIS-REx , NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, took a bite out of the space rock Bennu in October 2020 and is on course to return that sample to Earth just over seven years to the day after it launched.  As the probe — whose name is short for "Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security-Regolith Explorer" — flies its return trajectory through space, teams on Earth are preparing for the sample's Sept. 24 landing in the Utah desert.  Publisher: Space.com Date: 2023-03-30T14:00:33Z Author: Josh Dinner Twitter: @SPACEdotcom Reference: (Read more) Visit Source OSIRIS-REx scraped an asteroid, in six months we'll know what it found Cosmos » Space » OSIRIS-REx scraped an asteroid, now it's set to deliver samples back to Earth Somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Earth, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is nipping home with precious cargo: a 250g sample of m

Nasa’s James Webb telescope finds Earth-like planet but there’s a twist

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Nasa's James Webb telescope finds Earth-like planet but there's a twist Publisher: MSN Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Happening on Twitter BREAKING🚨: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is so powerful it discovered water and numerous other ingredients for… https://t.co/nQlb3gVPRx MAstronomers (from Milky Way) Sun Mar 26 10:42:19 +0000 2023 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected churning clouds of dust on a distant planet that orbits two stars https://t.co/Llchb88B0U CNN Thu Mar 23 00:01:12 +0000 2023 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope made another out-of-this-world discovery: a giant red planet outside of our solar… https://t.co/TMHLYSwqxJ CBSEveningNews (from 📺 6:30 p.m. ET) Wed Mar 22 23:15:25 +0000 2023 📷 The NASA/ESA/CSA James #Webb Space Telescope has observed cloud features in exoplanet VHS 1256 b's atmosphere.… https://t.co/yauGE

Senior works to keep robots team funded and visible | Mountain Xpress

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Kledis is the captain of operations and marketing for Glitch 2.0, SILSA's robotics team that competed in its first competition at UNC Asheville on March 4-5. There, they took the Rookie All Star Award and the Rookie Seed Award. "I’m glad all our hard work paid off," he says. Publisher: Mountain Xpress Twitter: @mxnews Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Breadcrumbing robots could roam Martian caves like Hansel and Gretel | Space Newly proposed Mars exploration rovers have a peculiar inspiration, the classic Grimm Brothers' fairy tale Hansel and Gretel.  The flock of robots will follow "breadcrumbs" to find their way out of caves just as the eponymous siblings attempted to escape the forest in which they were abandoned by their parents in the famous fairytale.  Publisher: Space.com Date: 2023-03-30T19:00:56Z Author: Robert Lea Twitter: @SPACEdotcom Reference: (Read more) Visit Source

Solar system hit by the most powerful explosion in the universe

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The intensity of the blast was such that researchers were unable to properly study it, since it blinded the instruments that would usually be used to measure its intensity. Scientists said this type of event is a gamma-ray burst (GRB) - known for being some of the strongest and brightest explosions in the universe. Publisher: Yahoo News Twitter: @YahooNews Reference: (Read more) Visit Source The solar system was hit with a gamma-ray burst so bright, it blinded scientists' equipment in space Our solar system was hit by a gamma-ray burst so bright, it blinded space equipment and telescopes. Scientists say the gamma-ray burst (GRB), the most powerful type of explosion in the universe, was 70 times brighter than any previously recorded event. Publisher: Yahoo News Twitter: @YahooNews Reference: (Read more) Visit Source A Grand Tour of the Solar System and More Programs in April | Smithsonian Voices |

Planetary Parade: See Five Planets Line Up In The Night Sky This Week

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Have you seen the "planetary parade" after sunset? It's getting a lot of media attention, partly because Jupiter is about to sink into the Sun's glare and ruin it, but you can still glimpse some or all or five planets naked-eye and with binoculars this week. Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars are all visible right after sunset—though Jupiter and Mercury could be tricky depending on where you observe from. Get somewhere high with a clear view of the western horizon to watch the sunset. Publisher: Forbes Date: 2023-03-28 Author: Jamie Carter Twitter: @forbes Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Planets and Meteors — this early spring | Opinion | myeasternshoremd.com Both of the innermost planets of our Solar System, Mercury and Venus, will be seen at their best for all of 2023 during the first two weeks of April this year. Mercury gains altitude each night until April 19 and on April 21, the crescent Moon joins th