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This is the first photo of the Milky Way's monster black hole

(X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; IR: NASA/HST/STScI. Inset: Radio (EHT Collaboration))

The Event Horizon Telescope has captured a historic first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Say hello to Sagittarius A*.

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Milky Way's monster black hole photo has scientists over the moon

"What's more cool than seeing the black hole in the center of our own Milky Way?" one scientist said. What's more cool, indeed...

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Water may have been on Mars more recently than thought, China's rover suggests

Scientists have long believed that Mars was wet around 3 billion years ago, during the planet's Hesperian period, then lost much of its water. But a new study presents evidence of water activity from just 700 million years ago, well into the current Amazonian period, posing a new puzzle to crack about the Red Planet and its history.

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Spaceflight

Boeing's Starliner 'go' for crucial May 19 launch to space station

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Boeing's Starliner capsule is ready to launch again. In a flight readiness review Wednesday, NASA cleared Starliner to launch on Orbital Flight Test-2, a crucial uncrewed mission to the International Space Station on May 19.

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SpaceX's Crew-3 astronauts dish on action-packed 6 months in orbit

From dodging space debris to welcoming the first-ever fully private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, SpaceX's Crew-3 mission had a very eventful six months off Earth.

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China's Mars rover Zhurong hunkers down for 1st Red Planet winter

Zhurong, part of China's Tianwen-1 mission, has been operating in the vast basin of Utopia Planitia for 347 Martian days, or sols, and has traveled 6,302 feet (1,921 meters) across the planet's surface. But now, the rover is receiving lower amounts of energy from the sun as winter takes hold.

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Science & Astronomy

With Milky Way's black hole revealed, a big mystery remains, Nobel Prize winner says

(EHT Collaboration)

There are few people in the world as qualified to talk about the black hole at the center of our galaxy as 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Reinhard Genzel. So if anyone knows what the first photo of the giant black hole Sagittarius A* means, it's him.

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Watch black holes and the stars that feed them dance in NASA video

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The visualization shows 22 X-ray binaries in both our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud. In each pair, the black hole is shown as a black dot at the center of an orange-red accretion disk; the star is shown as a bluish- or yellowish-white sphere scaled to match its size.

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Scientists peer inside Mars meteorite to check for signs of a habitability

Liquid water once shaped the rock inside a meteorite from Mars, but likely did not support any microbial life, the new study finds.

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Technology

DARPA is exploring ways to build big things in space

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The U.S. military has awarded contracts under a new program to address in-space manufacturing needs, as part of a larger effort to reduce the costs of spaceflight. Space manufacturing could allow humanity to build large structures efficiently, using materials launched from Earth or harvested on another world such as the moon or Mars

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Save $500 on the Panasonic Lumix S5 camera

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Amazon has discounted the Panasonic Lumix S5 camera by $500 so it's now their lowest ever price, both for just the body and with a lens kit.

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Save $120 on the Anycubic Photon Mono X 6K 3D printer

(Amazon)

Right now, you can get Anycubic Photon Mono X 6K 3D printer for just $569 at Anycubic's website - that's a $120 discount to print your space age projects at home.

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Star Trek

The best Star Trek: The Original Series episodes of all time!

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The first thing you need to know about Star Trek: The Original Series is that it only lasted for three seasons. The second thing you need to know is that there's a pretty good reason for that. Its catalog of episodes is wildly uneven, with stories that range from the cringeworthy to the simply dull, but the good ones are oh, so very good.

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