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Welcome to Wednesday, Space Fans! Today, our Editor-in-Chief Tariq Malik is headed to NASA's Wallops Flight Facility for a discussion with agency officials and representatives of Arizona-based company Katalyst Space Technologies, who will discuss the upcoming mission to boost the Swift space telescope.
A fireball recently burned a 300-mile path over the southern U.S. (we've got the video). Europe launched Amazon's latest batch of LEO internet satellites this morning from French Guiana, and the moon and Venus will do rare dance in the sky this afternoon. So, lots going on in space today! Read on to find out what else is happening above our heads.
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| Space Quiz! What year did NASA's MAVEN probe launch to Mars? |
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Scientists bid farewell after months of recovery efforts, as NASA officially decommissions MAVEN, one of the agency's most valuable probes around Mars, which transformed scientists' understanding of the Red Planet.
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A dazzling fireball streaked through the skies above the the U.S. over the weekend, crashing through Earth's atmosphere at a staggering 56,000 mph (90,123 kph).
It first appeared over Tupelo, Mississippi on Sunday night, then raced roughly 300 miles across the sky before disappearing from view, according to NASA.
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An Ariane 6 rocket launched from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Wednesday, lifting off at 8:21 a.m. EDT (1221 GMT; 9:21 a.m. local Kourou time). The rocket was topped with 36 Amazon Leo broadband satellites, which together weigh more than any payload ever lofted by an Ariane vehicle.
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The moon passes directly in front of Venus during a rare daylight occultation today (June 17), creating one of the month's most unusual and technically challenging skywatching events.
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According to a recent study, Earth got some of the key ingredients for life from asteroids in the inner solar system - with a little help from the solar system's largest planet, Jupiter.
Planetary scientists at Rice University found that Earth’s stockpile of phosphorus and nitrogen, two chemical elements essential to life, came mostly from chunks of rock that formed in the inner solar system. And that process might not have happened without Jupiter looming just outside the asteroid belt.
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Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft have obtained the most detailed image yet of the jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87).
If this black hole sounds familiar, that is because it made history in 2019 when it was revealed as the first black hole to be imaged by humanity.
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GOES-18 satellite imagery of the Kīlauea volcano eruption that occurred on June 14 shows the volcano blasting lava about 700 feet (210 meters) into the air!
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On June 17, 1985, the space shuttle Discovery launched payload specialist Sultan Salman Abdelize Al Saud as the first Arab and first Muslim in space.
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Let's say that you're called away on business this July 3, the precise day Silo Season 3's first episode is dropping. You're itching to find out the fates of Juliette and Bernard but you're far from home. Just fire up ProtonVPN and you'll find out who, if anyone, ended up extra crispy.
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Well, what a Wednesday it is, Space Fans! We're halfway through the week, and already so much is going on. We've got all this and more in store today and for the rest of the week, so keep looking up, and check out Space.com for the latest on what's happening in space.
Josh Dinner
Spaceflight Staff Writer, Space.com
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