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Broken water pipe knocks out data processing for NASA sun-studying spacecraft

Broken pipe knocks out NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory | Space Quiz! These are dense stellar remnants that blast out beams of radiation that sweep across the cosmos as they spin. | Cosmic rays could help assess hidden damage in Ukraine

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December 3, 2024

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Broken pipe knocks out NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

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Scientists won't be able to process much of the data gathered by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and IRIS spacecraft for a while, thanks to a burst water pipe. That pipe - a 4-inch-wide (10 centimeters) cooling water line in a server room at Stanford University in California that's home to the SDO Joint Science Operations Center (JSOC) - burst on Nov. 26.

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Space Quiz! These are dense stellar remnants that blast out beams of radiation that sweep across the cosmos as they spin.

Learn the answer here!

Pulsars

Dwarf Stars

Supermassive Black Holes

Spiral Galaxies

Cosmic rays could help assess hidden damage in Ukraine

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Energetic particles that pop briefly into existence when cosmic rays hit Earth's atmosphere could help assess hidden damage to buildings in Ukraine after the war ends. These particles - known as muons - are very strange. They are birthed from collisions between high-energy protons and atomic nuclei that make up cosmic rays, and molecules in Earth's atmosphere.

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Skywatching

Night sky, December 2024: What you can see this month

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The northeastern sky on tonight's December evening hosts the bright constellations of Perseus and W-shaped Cassiopeia, with the very bright yellowish star Capella gleaming below them. The sky between Perseus and Cassiopeia hosts the Double Cluster, a pair of bright open star clusters that together cover a finger's width of the sky.

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Spaceflight

Chinese astronauts show fruit fly experiment on Tiangong

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China's Shenzhou 19 astronauts have some winged companions to oversee aboard the country's space station. The astronauts arrived at the Tiangong space station on Oct. 29, beginning their six-month-long stay in orbit. They have since been joined by 15 adult fruit flies and 40 pupae, which arrived aboard the Tianzhou 8 resupply mission on Nov. 15.

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Science & Astronomy

Hubble peeks planet-forming disk 3x hotter than the sun's

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A star about 1,360 light-years away from Earth, named FU Orionis, is twice as hot as astronomers previously suspected, according to recent data from the Hubble Space Telescope. In fact, scientists believe that the region where FU Orionis's planet-forming disk touches the star's surface glows at around 16,000 Kelvin - three times hotter than the surface of our sun.

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Technology

Near Space Labs launches fleet of AI-powered balloon robots

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Near Space Labs, a New York-based startup, has deployed a network of high-altitude balloons equipped with advanced robotic cameras to capture high-resolution images of disaster-prone neighborhoods across the United States. With this enhanced imagery, the startup said it aims to accelerate the work of insurance companies that rely on aerial data to assess property risks and respond to damage caused by extreme weather events.

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Search for Life

SETI tracks signals with data from Arecibo Observatory

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You can knock a good telescope out, but you can't keep it down. Using data from the now-destroyed Arecibo radio telescope, scientists from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute have unlocked the secrets of signals from "cosmic lighthouses" powered by dead stars.

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