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Happy Fourth of July weekend, Space Fans! In this special edition of your daily dose of Space, we have a full slate of space-y features for America's 250th anniversary. But our top story is a daring one: NASA just launched a mission to save the Swift space observatory from falling out of space. See how it works above!
That's not all, of course. Below you'll find our full series of stories looking at space science and history over the last 250 years, SpaceX is testing its Starship again and there's a new habitable explanet! Check them out below.
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Forget America's 250th anniversary. Where might we be another 250 years from now? Our Spaceflight and Tech editor Mike Wall looks into the future.
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| Space Quiz! What star's light is just reaching Earth from 1776? |
Find out the answer HERE!
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NASA has big plans for July 4 — the 250th anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence — which involves both aircraft and spacecraft. Here's what's happening all year long and where.
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The moon over America's first Independence Day was about 31 feet closer to Earth than it is today. Here's how colonists used it as a clock, calendar and streetlight — and what astronomers knew about it.
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As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the history of the solar system tells its own story of exploration. Here's how we've gone from 6 planets all the way to 11, before settling on 8.
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Okay, this was our Space Quiz question. Did you get it? If you're stumped, our Skywatching Writer Anthony Wood tells the teall of this star's light, which left its surface around the same time that the U.S. was founded.
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America's anniversary aside, SpaceX completed a Starship engine test at its Starbase facility recently, igniting all six of the vehicle's engines for a full minute. Here's the video.
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NASA joined in the semiquincentennial celebrations this year by painting "America 250" on the rocket that launched the Artemis 2 astronauts around the moon.
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From the Apollo landing site to the North America Nebula, these celestial sights offer a uniquely American way to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday.
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The Red Planet and Uranus will appear close together before dawn on Independence Day morning. Here's what to know to see the planets.
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Optical telescopes have come a long way in the past two-and-a-half centuries — from the homemade telescope of William Herschel to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope and more.
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Here's a discovery astronomers could not make 250 years ago. They've found a planet 25 light-years away that orbits within the habitable zone of its star that could potentially support liquid water and possibly life.
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Celebrating America's 250th birthday, Space.com looks back at what our understanding of space was like in 1776 and what major developments occurred to change our thinking.
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Our pick for this last space photo of the day before th holiday captures protostars, basically baby stars, "celebrating their independence." It is a fitting tribute as the protostars break away from the molecular cloud in which they formed to become fully fledged stars in their own right. Here's what this NASA photos shows.
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Say so long to the sunshine as we plunge back into the deep mysteries of Silo 18. Here's how to watch the epic Apple TV post-apocalyptic TV series.
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| Have a Happy Fourth of July! |
And that's going to be a wrap on this pre-July 4th edition of our daily newsletter. For everyone celebrating, have a safe and happy Fourth of July holiday and be sure to check out Space.com this weekend, because we'll have more space history to share for America's 250th anniversary.
If you're looking for Space.com on the go, check out our new app for both iOS and Android. Check it out.
Keep looking up,
Tariq Malik
Editor-in-Chief, Space.com
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