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May 13, 2022

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Super Flower Blood Moon 2022: This weekend's total lunar eclipse explained

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The first lunar eclipse of 2022 will take place on late Sunday, May 15, or early Monday on May 16 depending on your time zone. Here is everything you need to know to gear up and prepare for the event.

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Watch the total lunar eclipse of May 2022: Super Blood Moon webcasts

The weather is key for this weekend's Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse. If you're clouded out or unable to see it on Sunday night, we have several webcasts for you to enjoy. Here's where and when to watch online.

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With a telescope, some good friends and tasty late night snacks!

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Watch SpaceX launch dozens of Starlink internet satellites tonight!

SpaceX plans to launch another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites and land a rocket on a ship at sea tonight, and you can watch the action live. Liftoff is scheduled for Friday (May 13) at 6:07 p.m. EDT (2207 GMT).

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Milky Way vs M87: Photos show 2 different monster black holes

(EHT Collaboration)

The Event Horizon Telescope has now produced images of two supermassive black holes: the one in the center of a galaxy called M87 and the one at the center of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. They look the same, but couldn't be more different.

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Satellites see devastating fires blaze across New Mexico

Fresh satellite images from Maxar Technologies caught a portion of the 200,000 burning acres associated with the Calf Canyon and Hermits Peak fires, east of Santa Fe.

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Spaceflight

Watch Rocket Lab catch a falling booster with a helicopter

(Rocket Lab)

Rocket Lab used a helicopter to catch the falling first stage of its two-stage Electron rocket on May 2, during a mission called "There And Back Again" that delivered 34 satellites to orbit. This new video shows the daring rocket catch as seen from the booster itself.

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See Boeing's Starliner capsule meet its rocket before test flight (video)

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Boeing's Starliner capsule took a drive by some historical launch sites earlier this month on its path to the pad. Check out this time-lapse video as Starliner is set to lift off on May 19.

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NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat launch to the moon delayed to May 31

The microwave-oven-sized CAPSTONE spacecraft will launch from New Zealand aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket with a Lunar Photon upper stage. It mission is to verify the stability of a near rectilinear halo orbit around the moon, modeling what Gateway -the small moon-orbiting space station that's a key part of the Artemis plan - will need to follow with astronauts on board.

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Science & Astronomy

Sagittarius A*: The 1st photo of the Milky Way's monster black hole explained in images

(Ben Prather/EHT Theory Working Group/Chi-Kwan Chan)

On May 12, 2022, scientists unveiled the first-ever image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Here's how it was made.

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The new photo of the Milky Way's monster black hole looks fuzzy. Here's why it isn't.

Capturing the first-ever image of the Milky Way's black hole was no easy task. The historic image released Thursday (May 12), of what scientists call Sagittarius A* took a planet-wide set of telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The telescopes used atomic clock timing to fuse their data precisely, no easy task given that the material around Sagittarius A* the scientists were photographing changes shape every minute.

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Microbes on Earth's seafloor may aid the search for alien life

Researchers from Arizona State University studied an area called the Samail Ophiolite, located off the coast of Oman. This large slab of oceanic crust is made of volcanic rocks and ultramafic rocks from Earth's upper mantle. These rocks exhibit a unique geological process called serpentinization, whereby water reacts with the rocks to create hydrogen gas that is oxidized by microorganisms.

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Technology

World's most powerful heavy-ion collider goes online this week

(Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

Experiments at the $730 million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University were slated to start this week. Once online, the new reactor will fire two heavy atomic nuclei at each other, splitting them apart in ways that enable scientists to study what glues them together and how rare atomic isotopes - versions of chemical elements with different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei - are structured.

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Skywatching

See the Blood Moon rise in must-see total lunar eclipse event

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This weekend on Sunday night (May 15-16), the attention of millions of people will be drawn skyward, where a mottled, coppery globe - the moon - will be completely immersed in the long, tapering cone of shadow cast into space by our planet. Here's a reminder on why it's the must-see event of May!

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Why does the moon turn red during a total lunar eclipse?

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When a lunar eclipse occurs and our lone satellite inches into Earth's shadow, the moon's face becomes painted red. Though this red hue is most striking during a total lunar eclipse, the moon gets cast in a scarlet light even during partial lunar eclipses. So why does our moon turn red and not black when bathed in Earth's shadow?

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How to photograph a lunar eclipse

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In this guide, we'll cover everything you need to know in order to take stunning lunar eclipse images. We'll explain what sort of equipment you'll need to pack, which settings to use and how to focus your camera.

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