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SpaceX: Starship self-destructed after fire on board
The seventh flight of the Starship ended with an explosion. The US space company SpaceX has announced the reason.
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Rakieta Falcon 9 płonęła nad Polską. Polska Agencja Kosmiczna potwierdza.
#RakietaFalcon9#PolskaAgencjaKosmiczna #polska #poland #falcon9#Technology #ai #news #nasa#Mastodon #fediverse #feditech #bluesky
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Staying informed in the US is not going to get easier anytime soon, especially as old standbys fall to billionaires or preemptive obedience to the authoritarian regime.
I've assembled a list of 40+ outlets that I find valuable, prominently featuring:
* nonprofit, co-operative, and independent news rooms,
* outlets relevant to Petaluma and the Bay Area,
* international outlets,
* and, yes, a selection of for-profit outlets.
Many of them are on fedi or Bluesky.
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A Dragonfly for Titan
A new eight-rotor robotic probe will head to the solar system’s most Earth-like moon. Here’s what its team is doing to prepare.
Check out this extensive paper by Matthew R. Francis for Eos, AGU's science news magazine
https://eos.org/features/a-dragonfly-for-titan
#Dragonfly#Titan#Saturn#Moon #satellite #solarsystem #planetaryscience #science#STEM #engineering #drone#AGU#Eos #news #magazine
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The BBC asked minority groups what they thought of the BBC:
"Participants...viewed journalism as a form of oppression that had the same impact on their lives as the police. Journalism in general, and the BBC in particular, they said, felt like an arm of the state."
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Cardiff University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says "it is no longer an option for us to continue as we are".
As Joe Biden’s term as the 46th U.S. President comes to a close, so does the most pro-Native administration in history. Today in The Big Picture, Amelia Christnot explores how Biden kept his promises to Indigenous Americans—setting records and reshaping representation along the way. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/president-biden-impact-indigenous-americans
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@georgetakei
From the 20th of January it's going back to the Ole
#KuKluxClan (White) House !
Who thought it would come to this second Term ?
#YMCA will play for #Trump exclusively, pretending, their Song was never ment gay - what "relieving" #News for the #World. At least the most cringe Comment, whatsoever. Maybe the gay #Community should look for another Hymn, after this Comment from #VictorWillis.He made sich #Statements already before.
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Wowzer! Map of cosmic flows, by yours truly, makes it to the cover of the Nature Astronomy journal.
"Galaxies from
wherever flock
together"
I'm no poet, but could this be a Haiku?
https://www.nature.com/natastron/volumes/8/issues/12
Credits:
Image: Daniel Pomarède, Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l’Univers, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay.
Cover design: Bethany Vukomanovic.
#Cosmology#Galaxies#Astronomy #Astrodon#Astrophysics#Cosmography#Cartography#Map#Cosmicflows #science#STEM #news #space
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in the #arXiv
A New Strategy for the Exploration of Venus
by the VEXAG Exploration Strategy Study Analysis Workgroup
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06830
#Venus#PlanetaryScience #Astrodon#Science#STEM #planet #planets #solarsystem #engineering #news
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An asteroid’sdestruction may have given Mars rings, then moons
Scientists simulated a situation that may offer an improved explanation for how the Red Planet ended up with small Phobos and tiny Deimos.
Credits video: Jacob Kegerreis, et al./NASA Ames
#Mars#Phobos#Deimos #science #Astrodon#STEM #space #rings#NYTimes #news