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Jupiter Accelerates Electrons to Near-Light Speed, Offering Clues to Cosmic Ray Origins

As planets and stars travel through the streams of charged particles flowing across space, their magnetic fields act like obstacles; incoming particles are slowed and deflected, forming a boundary called the bow shock; just ahead of this boundary lies the foreshock, a variable region where magnetic conditions can accelerate some particles to nearly the speed of light. Image credit: Ben C. Smith, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

The giant planet’s bow shock isn’t just deflecting the solar wind, it’s acting as a powerful particle accelerator, firing electrons to relativistic energies of at least 1 MeV, according to a new analysis of data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

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NASA Captures Typhoon Jangmi’s Massive Eye in Stunning Nighttime Image

Typhoon Jangmi May 30Typhoon Jangmi dazzled from space with a giant swirling eye while drenching parts of Japan with heavy rain. From late May into early June 2026, Typhoon Jangmi slowly tracked north-northwest across the Philippine Sea on a path toward southern Japan. Although the storm moved at a relatively slow pace, it spread intense rainfall across a [...]
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Super Typhoon Sinlaku Was So Powerful It Made the Sky Ripple With Gravity Waves

Super Typhoon Sinlaku Atmospheric Gravity WavesA rapidly intensifying super typhoon sent giant atmospheric ripples skyward, revealing a hidden connection between extreme weather and near-space. In April 2026, Super Typhoon Sinlaku swept across the North Pacific, bringing torrential rain and flooding to parts of the Mariana Islands. The storm intensified into a “violent typhoon,” the highest category used by the Japan [...]
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ISS crew back to normal after emergency shelter order

NASA has told crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to resume normal operations, ending a roughly two-hour period in which five astronauts sheltered inside a docked SpaceX capsule. The shelter order came Friday morning as a precautionary measure to protect crew while Russian cosmonauts attempted a fix on the Zvezda service module’s transfer tunnelContinue reading "ISS crew back to normal after emergency shelter order"

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How NASA plans to build a Moon Base

NASA announced new contracts for the rovers and landers that will lay the groundwork for the agency’s proposed $30-billion Moon Base — some of which they plan to launch as soon as this fall — during a May 26 press conference. The announcement offered the most detailed look yet into the Moon Base plan NASAContinue reading "How NASA plans to build a Moon Base"

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Webb Weighs Most Distant Inactive Black Hole Ever Found

This Webb image shows the highly distorted red galaxy MRG-M0138 seen through a foreground cluster of galaxies (white sources). Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb.

A supermassive black hole 6 billion times the mass of the Sun lurks in MRG-M0138, a gravitationally lensed quiescent galaxy seen when the Universe was just 3 billion years old, according to an analysis of data collected by the NIRSpec Integral Field Spectrograph onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.

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Alarme na Estação Espacial ultrapassado: NASA cancela evacuação de astronautas devido a fuga de oxigénio

Os quatro astronautas da missão Crew-12 foram instruídos pela NASA a vestir os fatos espaciais e a refugiarem-se na cápsula Dragon, enquanto cosmonautas russos tentam uma reparação mais extensa no módulo Zvezda.

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Let’s build the moon base, but not lose sight of Mars

Illustration representing NASA's moon-to-Mars ambitions. Credit: NASA

These are heady days for NASA and the space industry. The Artemis 2 crew flew around the moon, traveling farther into space than any humans previously had; NASA announced an […]

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Don’t Miss: Venus Is About To Disappear Behind the Moon

Venus Moon Occultation 2023A disappearing Venus, a planet parade, and the start of summer make June a must-see month for skywatchers. June brings several notable skywatching events, including a close meeting between Venus and Jupiter, a rare occasion when the Moon moves in front of Venus, the arrival of astronomical summer, and the return of favorite deep-sky sights. [...]
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