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Happy Monday, space fans.
It's the beginning of another week, and we're already starting off with a bang. First off, China's Long March 7A exploded in a launch attempt this morning. The rocket was carrying the ChinaSat-4B satellite and burst into flames following a launch anomaly. Also, SpaceX's Starship vehicle is still stranded in the ocean following its latest test flight. As the company barrels toward its next test flight to ready the vehicle for NASA's moon-bound Artemis program, they have also been working to recover Starship from the sea, but according to Elon Musk this effort is unlikely to end with success. Today we are also gearing up for eclipse-o-mania as we are now only two days away from a total solar eclipse! Will you see it?
Check out what's big in space below:
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| What happens during a total solar eclipse? |
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SpaceX is still towing Starship's upper stage toward shore two weeks after its latest test flight, but the unprecedented effort is unlikely to succeed, according to Elon Musk.
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SpaceX plans to build factories on the moon, using robots to do much of the heavy lifting, Elon Musk said on Tuesday (Aug. 4) during SpaceX's first-ever quarterly earnings call.
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Here are key timings for some of the eclipse's most popular viewing destinations.
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A total solar eclipse and the northern lights at the same time? Experts explain why it's possible, but the odds are stacked against it.
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Air-breathing electric propulsion could help satellites explore a new frontier, one that lies quite close to our planet.
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The James Webb Space Telescope's strange "little red dots" may be evolving into spiral galaxies.
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An international team of researchers using the U.S. National Science Foundation's Inouye Solar Telescope has captured the highest-resolution view of the sun's surface.
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On Aug. 10, 1972, an Earth-grazing fireball burst through the sky over North America. Here's what happened.
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With many fan-favorite Autobots and Decepticons bumped off in the opening act, this was not the big-screen romp '80s kids were expecting.
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That's it for our space update today!
This morning certainly got off to an explosive start with China's Long March 7A rocket experiencing an anomaly in a launch attempt. We will continue to let you know what we find, and if the cause for this anomaly is found and shared. We are also still totally enthralled with the highest-resolution images of the sun that have been captured. Looking at the sun with that level of detail is amazing, but now the real fun begins as that information is allowing us to better understand how the sun and stars like the sun operate.
Coming up, we are now just two days away from the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse! Space.com correspondents are traveling all around the world and we will be able to follow them and live vicariously to experience the incredible magic of a solar eclipse. Have you ever seen a total solar eclipse? What was it like for you? And to keep the fun going, in just a few more weeks we will be on the ground reporting out from the launch of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. To follow closely along and stay up to date with all things space, you can now get Space.com right in the palm of your hand with our new app available now on iOS and Android.
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Chelsea Gohd
Content Manager, Space.com
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