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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 110 — Voyager 1's Brush with Silence

Northern lights amaze skywatchers around the world | Space Quiz! Which of Jupiter's moons features abundant volcanic activity? | This Week In Space: e110 - Voyager 1's Brush with Silence

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May 13, 2024

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Northern lights amaze skywatchers around the world

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In the United States, the northern lights (or aurora borealis) - typically only visible around the Arctic region and northern Canada - were visible as far south as Florida.

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Space Quiz! Which of Jupiter's moons features abundant volcanic activity?

Learn the answer in the story below!

Europa

Ganymede

Callisto

This Week In Space: e110 - Voyager 1's Brush with Silence

(TWiS)

On Episode 110 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with Linda Spilker, Voyager project scientist, about the recent rescue of Voyager 1 from beyond the solar system. The Voyager probes have been transiting space since 1977, and they're still at it 46 years later. But late in 2023, Voyager 1, now 15 billion miles distant, started sending what the flight controllers called "gibberish" back to Earth - uncoordinated ones and zeros and a heartbeat tone. They knew it was still alive, but something had gone wrong.

Full Story: Space (5/11)

Skywatching

Powerful sun storms give Mother's Day weekend auroras

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Plasma from a powerful solar eruption called a coronal mass ejection (CME) slammed into Earth on Friday (May 10), sparking an intense geomagnetic storm. One of the effects was a supercharged northern lights display, which provided skywatchers in much of the U.S. and other regions around the world with absolutely mesmerizing aurora views over the weekend.

Full Story: Space (5/12)

Spaceflight

FAA to conduct Florida environmental review for Straship

(Josh Dinner)

In 2019, a NASA-led environmental assessment (EA) concluded that Starship operations at KSC wouldn't significantly affect the surrounding ecosystem. However, SpaceX's plans for the site have changed since then, and a more in-depth review -- an environmental impact statement (EIS) - is therefore now in order, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced

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Science & Astronomy

The surface of this exoplanet is hotter than some stars

(NASA/ESA/CSA/Dani Player)

An exoplanet covered in so many volcanoes that its molten surface radiates a fiery red has been discovered orbiting a star 66 light-years from Earth. That sentence may ring a bell for Star Wars fans, as Obi-Wan Kenobi indeed fought and defeated Anakin Skywalker on the lava planet of Mustafar. But, believe it or not, even that world has nothing on the newly discovered TOI-6713.01. Despite needing a catchier name, its vital statistics place it in the realm of the extraordinary.

Full Story: Space (5/13)

SpaceX

SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida (video)

(SpaceX)

SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink satellites on Sunday (May 12), adding to its huge and ever-growing broadband megaconstellation. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 8:53 p.m. EDT (0053 GMT on May 13).

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Entertainment

Netflix's 'Goodbye Earth' is an insufferably slow disaster

(Netflix)

When you start rooting for the planet-killing asteroid in a speculative disaster show to please hurry up and put humanity out of its misery, you know the series is in trouble.

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