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The SETI Institute and SpaceX have launched a groundbreaking collaboration to help protect sensitive radio astronomy observations at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) from interference caused by satellite communications, such as certain direct-to-cell signal transmissions from Starlink satellites. This effort represents a significant step forward in preserving the integrity of radio astronomy as satellite communications continue to expand.

#science #space

ESA Director: Europe Can Fill NASA’s Role if U.S. Funding Falls
- By Andrew Parsonson

europeanspaceflight.com/esa-di…
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#nasa #space

ESA Director Says Europe Has the Capabilities to Replace NASA Contributions - European Spaceflight

In response to proposed budget cuts, ESA Director Carole Mundell said Europe has the technical capabilities to replace NASA contributions if needed

^{Andrew Parsonson (European Spaceflight)}

Spectacular timelapse of an aurora and Moon-rise over Earth from the International Space Station.

#space #nasa #alt4me

One of those rare stories one stumbles upon that leaves you feeling better,

much better for having read it all the way through to the end...

arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/…

| #Longreads #Space

She was a Disney star with platinum records, but Bridgit Mendler gave it up to change the world

“The space industry has a ground bottleneck, and the problem is going to get worse.”…

^{Eric Berger (Ars Technica)}

A century ago, scientists thought the universe was static.

Today we know it’s expanding. Not from a center, but from everywhere at once, as space itself stretches like dots on a balloon’s surface.

theconversation.com/where-is-t…
#science #space

Where is the center of the universe?

As the universe expands, it feels like it must be spreading out from some initial point. But a physicist explains why that’s not how it works. Hint: space-time is involved.

^{The Conversation}

The International Space Station completes a full orbit of Earth without a sunset.

Credit: NASA Johnson

#nasa #space #science

POV: Orbiting Mars. 2 volcanoes. 1 dust storm and the darkness of space around you.

Browse the full size image 170MP (!) here: easyzoom.com/image/633505

Full size, download & more info here: flic.kr/p/2r95M3B

ESA Mars Express 2024-02-16
Olympus and Ascraues Mons

Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

#Space #Astronomy #Mars #ESA #Solarocks

These are too good not to share, so here's one more video of the Sun, via the New Jersey Institute of Technology & US National Science Foundation. (Yes, publicly funded science at work.)

For reference, the plasma blob at center is about the size of North & South America combined.

Full article here:
nature.com/articles/s41550-025… #science #space #nature

Using new adaptive-optics techniques, researchers have created ultra-high resolution images of the Sun's corona--and the results are astonishing.

This video shows "coronal rain": loops of magnetic plasma arching out from the Sun, cooling, and flowing back down.

nso.edu/press-release/new-adap… #space #science #NSF #nature

#UMPlus - The LMC over Uyuni by Petr Horálek

universomagico.net/2025/05/la-…

This stunning image by astronomer Petr Horálek shows a landscape that could easily be seen on an exotic, distant planet. The planet in the image is Earth, however, what we see is not land but salt. Petr set up his photography equipment over the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. Also known as Salar de Tunupa, it.....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography

White House to Withdraw Isaacman’s NASA Administrator Nomination Amid Musk Ties
- By Ben Johansen

politico.com/news/2025/05/31/t…
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#elonmusk #nasa #space

Executive Appointments & Leadership Moves News

The latest Executive Appointments & Leadership Moves news – aggregated with the power of AI.

^{Aerospace News by Hype}

Woah! Really cool new videos from the Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory show timelapse adaptive optics views of the Sun's corona. This one is of a solar prominence being shaped by the Sun’s magnetism.

I like the choice to color hydrogen-alpha light pink.

You should check out all of the videos (the Sun is so fluffy!):
nso.edu/press-release/new-adap…

#Space #Astronomy #SolarObserving

A new atomic clock in space could help us measure elevations on Earth.

@technologyreview reports: "The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these measurements far more accurate."

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#Space #ESA #Science #Geology

A new atomic clock in space could help us measure elevations on Earth

^{Sophia Chen (MIT Technology Review)}

Just discovered:

Teleios

Ancient Greek for "perfection"

A massive spherical bubble, 11, 46, or 157 light-years across (they aren't sure yet)

Could be from a white dwarf slurping up a companion star, exceeding a mass limit, and exploding

In our Milky Way, not an ORCS (Odd Radio Circles at intergalactic distances)

Discovered by Miroslav Filipović and team of Western Sydney University using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)

sciencealert.com/mysteriously-…

#Australia #Space

Do photons wear out? An astrophysicist explains light’s ability to travel vast cosmic distances without losing energy.

From @TheConversationUS: flip.it/oBBjCh

#Astrophysics #Physics #Space #Science

Do photons wear out? An astrophysicist explains light’s ability to travel vast cosmic distances without losing energy

The speed of light is the fastest anything can travel. What happens to a photon from a galaxy 25 million light years away on its journey toward Earth?

^{The Conversation}

In “The Martian,” NASA had boots on Mars by 2035, ten years from now..

In real life, robots are doing the heavy lifting and citizen scientists are rewriting the map of the red planet.

10 years after the movie, reality is stranger and smarter! buff.ly/BKURhIV

#space #mars

A decade after the release of ‘The Martian’ and a decade out from the world it envisions, a planetary scientist checks in on real-life Mars exploration

NASA hasn’t landed humans on Mars yet. But thanks to robotic missions, scientists now know more about the planet’s surface than they did when the movie was released.

^{The Conversation}

I recently visited the ALMA observatory in Chile. While I was poking around the telescopes, ALMA researchers released amazing new views of planet-forming disks around young stars.

These are the most detailed images yet of new solar systems being born.

public.nrao.edu/news/exoalma/ #space #science #tech #nature