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"If we really want a fully renewable energy supply, we need fusion as a third pillar," Laukien said, referencing solar and wind development. "Fusion is the key to a decarbonized future."
There could be serious benefits from a device that can generate the same energy from a single gram of fuel as 11 tons of dirty coal, as proponents have suggested, all without planet-warming carbon pollution.
With an eye on a clean-energy future, both the United States and Japan announced a partnership to fund further development and commercialization of fusion. Various innovations in the field have been announced, including one that doesn't rely on the usual magnets and lasers.
Realta Fusion CEO Kieran Furlong shared a statement on fusion's promise, per the report: "Today's demonstration puts the compact magnetic mirror firmly back in the race towards commercial fusion energy. It's a giant leap forward for a concept that promises economically viable, zero-carbon heat and electricity.
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SpaceX Notches Longest Starship Flight Before Losing Rocket. Third test mission of massive craft reached near Orbit.
Prior flights ended with explosions minutes after launch. 
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket into space in a critical test, sending the colossal craft farther and faster than it had ever flown, before it was lost while returning to Earth.
The mission, which featured several key demonstrations of the craft’s capabilities, lasted much longer than the past two attempts, which each ended quickly in explosions. The achievement brings the company a step closer to using Starship to launch satellites and eventually reaching Chief Executive Officer.
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NASA Hubble Telescope Snaps ‘Sparkling Candy Floss’ Region Of Space.
Hubble Space Telescope’s latest image releases might make you long for the cotton candy booth at the local fair. The venerable telescope captured an ethereal image of a cluster of nebulae called N11. That’s a humdrum name for what NASA described as “a bubbling region of stars” in a statement on August 19. The image gives space fans a glimpse into a neighboring galaxy and the cosmic processes at work there.
Hubble’s N11 image looks like a billowing red fog littered with glitter. “About 1,000 light-years across, N11’s sprawling filaments weave stellar matter in and out of each other like sparkling candy floss,” said NASA. “These cotton-spun clouds of gas are ionized by a burgeoning host of young and massive stars, giving the complex a cherry-pink appearance.” It’s tough to wrap your head around the concept of 1,000 light-years, but it helps to know Proxima Centauri—the next-closest star to our sun—is about 4.2 light-years away. In short, N11 is huge.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amandakoose...-of-space/
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SpaceX launched its Starship rocket into space in a critical test, sending the colossal craft farther and faster than it had ever flown, before it was lost while returning to Earth.??.
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Spacesuits of Boeing-launched astronauts stranded on space station are incompatible with SpaceX craft. NASA told Fox News Digital their Boeing spacesuits are made to work with the company’s spacecraft, while SpaceX’s spacesuits are made to work with its own Dragon vessel, which NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams may ride in on their descent back to Earth.
The two astronauts arrived in the Starliner vehicle June 5 and were only supposed to stay until the middle of the month. Both astronauts are "very familiar" with the International Space Station, said Russ DeLoach, NASA’s chief of safety and mission assurance. The Starliner test flight marked the third mission to the ISS for each of them.
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(21-06-2024, 02:31 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: A mysterious Planet Nine, J1249+36 is one of just a handful of hypervelocity stars identified in the Milky Way
"hypervelocity" stars are extremely rare, but we've just spotted a particularly special example.
A star named CWISE J124909+362116.0 (J1249+36 for short) not only exceeds the galactic escape with a velocity at around 600 kilometers (373 miles) per second, it's a very rare type of tiny, ancient, main sequence star called an L subdwarf, which happens to also be one of the oldest in the Milky Way.
First spotted by citizen scientists combing through telescope data for signs of the – and although far from the fastest we've seen, it represents something of a challenge to astronomers; namely, how did it get so breathtakingly fast?
https://indianexpress.com/article/techno...k-9529076/
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The nearest stars to Earth are three stars that lie about 4.37 light-years away in the Alpha Centauri triple-star system. The closest of these stars, Proxima Centauri, is just about 4.24 light-years away
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(29-07-2024, 08:55 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: Ancient Star Seen Zooming Through Space at 600 Kilometers Per Second. Most of the stars in the Milky Way tread sedate and orderly orbital measures around the galactic center, but that's not the case for everything. "hypervelocity" stars are extremely rare". A star named CWISE J124909+362116.0 (J1249+36 for short) not only exceeds galactic escape with a velocity at around 600 kilometers (373 miles) per second
Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system, is approximately 4.24 light-years away from Earth, that means light, which travels at a speed of approximately 299,792 kilometers per second, would take roughly 4.24 years to travel from our planet to Proxima Centauri.
Fallout from NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission could hit Earth — potentially triggering 1st human-caused meteor shower (News)
A new study suggests that millions of tiny space rock fragments??, which were ejected from the 2022 collision between asteroid Dimorphos and NASA's DART spacecraft, may be on a collision course with Earth and Mars.
Millions of tiny space rock fragments may be on a collision course with Earth and Mars after NASA deliberately crashed a probe into a far-away asteroid two years ago, a new study reveals. The celestial shrapnel, which could start hitting our planet within a decade, poses no risk to life on Earth — but it could trigger the first ever human-caused meteor showers.
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft purposefully collided with the asteroid Dimorphos, smashing right into the middle of the space rock at around 15,000 mph (24,000 km/h). The epic impact, which occurred more than 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) from Earth, was the first test of humanity's capability to redirect potentially hazardous asteroids that pose a threat to our planet.
The mission was a major success. Not only did DART alter Dimorphos' trajectory — shortening its trip around its partner asteroid Didymos by around 30 minutes — it completely changed the shape of asteroid. It demonstrated this type of action, known as the kinetic impactor method, was a potentially viable option for protecting our planet from dangerous space rocks.
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NASA Confronts 72% Asteroid Impact. Probability: A Planetary Defense Test. Asteroid Impact
Preparedness
A large asteroid impacting Earth is highly unlikely for the foreseeable future. But because the damage from such an event could be great, NASA leads hypothetical asteroid impact “tabletop” exercises every two years with experts and decision-makers from federal and international agencies to address the many uncertainties of an impact scenario. The most recent exercise took place this past April, with a preliminary report being issued on June 20.
https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-confronts-...ense-test/
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SpaceX set a launch turnaround record with back-to-back, coast-to-coast Falcon. launches. Following its second return to flight mission in as many months with a Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX proceeded to set a new turnaround record. These two launches of 21 Starlink satellites come just days after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) temporarily grounded the Falcon fleet amid an investigation into a failed booster landing attempt on Wednesday.
Liftoff of the Starlink 9-5 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) happened at 1:48 a.m. PDT (4:48 a.m. EDT, 0848 UTC). This was the second of two back-to-back overnight launches.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/08/31/li...ce-base-2/
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The 100 year journey to Proxima Centauri B. It will take a unclear fusion airship to travel 100 year from earth to reach 4.24 light distance.
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The world’s most frequently launched rocket — the SpaceX Falcon 9 — is cleared to fly again, federal regulators announced Friday evening, putting the vehicle back on track for two high-profile human spaceflight missions. Federal Aviation Admin, which licenses commercial rocket launches, grounded SpaceX’s rocket on August 28, after part of a Falcon 9 rocket booster exploded while attempting to land. Just two days later, the agency said it has cleared the rocket to return to flight. SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle may return to flight operations while the overall investigation of the anomaly during (Wednesday’s) mission remains open, provided all other license requirements are met,” the agency said in an emailed statement. “SpaceX made the return to flight request on Aug. 29 and the FAA gave approval on Aug. 30.”
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Nothing in our universe stands still: Earth orbits the sun, the sun circles the galaxy, and even galaxies are constantly on the move. So why is everything in space in motion?
It all comes down to how the universe and the objects within it were made, Edward Gomez, an astrophysicist and the education director at Las Cumbres Observatory, told Live Science. Scientists think the universe began with the Big Bang, a superfast expansion from an infinitely dense single point that eventually led to the formation of everything we see today.
"From the very beginning of the universe, it started expanding outwards because the force of the Big Bang caused everything to move apart," Gomez said.
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NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore reports 'strange noise' coming from Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
On Saturday (Aug. 31) NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore noticed something weird inside the Starliner spacecraft. Wilmore radioed down to Mission Control to ask about the bizarre noises heard emanating from Starliner's speakers while the spacecraft is currently docked to the International Space Station (ISS).
"There's a strange noise coming through the speaker," Wilmore tells Mission Control "I don't know what's making it." (
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The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, a multiday orbital expedition set to feature the first-ever spacewalk by private citizens, is now scheduled to launch on Friday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. (
Got ghost Sick Hantu)
An op plan released by agency indicates a 4-hr launch window opening @3:33 (0733 GMT) on Friday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, backup opportunities on Saturday & Sunday. Elon Musk's sai. Organized by billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, Polaris Dawn mission aims to reach a peak altitude of
870 miles (1,400 k/m) the highest for any crewed mission in over half a century, since NASA's Apollo program.
Highlight of mission, 1st spacewalk by a 4-member crew composed entirely of non-professional astronauts, wearing, newly developed SpaceX extravehicular activity (EVA) suits.
The launch was delayed twice last week, due to technical issue?, with launch tower and subsequently be'cos of weather constraints affecting the splashdown phase. Complicating matters further, a separate SpaceX Falcon 9 mission lost 1st stage booster, typically performs a precision upright landing on a drone ship.
This incident led to a temporary grounding, since lifted, of the prolific launch vehicle heavily relied upon by NASA and private companies for deploying astronauts and satellites into orbit.
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Boeing Starliner returns to Earth without a crew as NASA flags new issues. Boeing’s beleaguered Starliner made its long-awaited return to Earth on Saturday without the astronauts who rode it up to the International Space Station, after NASA ruled the trip back too risky.
A after years of delays, Starliner launched in June for what was meant to be a roughly weeklong test mission — a final shakedown before it could be certified to rotate crew to and from the orbital laboratory.
But unexpected thruster malfunctions and helium leaks en route to the ISS derailed those plans, and NASA ultimately decided it was safer to bring crewmates Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back on a rival SpaceX Crew Dragon — though they’ll have to wait until February 2025.
The gumdrop-shaped Boeing capsule touched down softly at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico 0401 GMT Saturday, its descent slowed by parachutes cushioned by airbags, departed ISS around 6-hours earlier.As it streaked red-hot across night sky, ground teams reported hearing sonic booms. Spacecraft endured temperatures of 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,650 degrees Celsius) during atmospheric reentry.
https://fortune.com/2024/09/07/boeing-st...-musk-iss/
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(09-09-2024, 11:02 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: Boeing Starliner returns to Earth without a crew as NASA flags new issues. Boeing’s beleaguered Starliner made its long-awaited return to Earth on Saturday without the astronauts who rode it up to the International Space Station, after NASA ruled the trip back too risky. A after years of delays, Starliner launched in June for what was meant to be a roughly weeklong test mission — a final shakedown before it could be certified to rotate crew to and from the orbital laboratory.
But unexpected thruster malfunctions and helium leaks en route to the ISS derailed those plans, and NASA ultimately decided it was safer to bring crewmates Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back on a rival SpaceX Crew Dragon — though they’ll have to wait until February 2025.
The gumdrop-shaped Boeing capsule touched down softly at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico 0401 GMT Saturday, its descent slowed by parachutes cushioned by airbags, departed ISS around 6-hours earlier.As it streaked red-hot across night sky, ground teams reported hearing sonic booms. Spacecraft endured temperatures of 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,650 degrees Celsius) during atmospheric reentry.
https://fortune.com/2024/09/07/boeing-st...-musk-iss/
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(12-09-2024, 05:18 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: CNN —
Tuesday’s presidential debate broadly agree that Kamala Harris outperformed Donald Trump, according to a CNN poll of debate watchers conducted by SSRS.
The vice president also outpaced both debate watchers’ expectations for her and Joe Biden’s onstage performance against the former president earlier this year, the poll found.
He try lousy,ly to show his boss what he can do?. But he can't
the show.
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The coelacanth is an example of a “Lazarus taxon,” an animal that seemingly disappears from the fossil record only to be rediscovered in its same form millions of years later. This can happen for a number of reasons. More often than not, it highlights how sporadic and incomplete the fossil record is, especially when the number of individuals in a given taxon is low.
In the case of the coelacanth, the zoological community was upended in 1938 when a 32-year old museum employee, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, working in the small South African town of East London, was presented with a fish that could not be identified. It was caught by a local fisherman while fishing just outside of the mouth of the Chalumna River on the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
Courtenay-Latimer couldn’t identify the fish either, so she had it taxidermied and sought out the opinion of an expert–Professor James Leonard Brierley Smith, a university lecturer and an expert in marine life. When Brierley Smith received Latimer’s sketch and notes on the unidentified fish by mail, he responded via telegram with a now famous message: “MOST IMPORTANT PRESERVE SKELETON AND GILLS = FISH DESCRIBED.”
Coelacanth Fish Skull on The Black Background
The ancient coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish, is a [+]“living fossil” in every sense of the term. Biologists believe this supreme survivor has undergone little change in 400 million years.
Prior to 1938, if you had asked a zoologist to name some of the oldest fish known to science, you’d probably hear about an oddly named lobe-fish, known as the coelacanth. The name itself sounds ancient. Coelacanths first evolved into existence during the early Devonian period, a little over 400 million years ago.
What zoologist not have told you is that ancient fish could still be found in ocean today, fact, they have chuckled at the idea. Scholars, prior to the coelacanth’s rediscovery in 1938, presumed that coelacanth had gone extinct during the late Cretaceous period, 65-70 million years ago.
Museum employee a rediscoverer of coelacanth, [+]Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, once described as "most beautiful fish I had ever seen. "Coelacanth is an example of a “Lazarus taxon,” an animal that seemingly disappears from fossil record only to be rediscovered in its same form millions of years later. This can happen for a number of reasons. More often not, it highlights how sporadic & incomplete fossil record is, especially when the number of individuals in a given taxon is low.
When Brierley Smith arrived in East London, he confirmed his hunch–the fish was indeed an ancient coelacanth. It was a discovery that sent shockwaves through the zoological community, earning both Brierley Smith and Courtenay-Latimer international recognition.
Interestingly, a second specimen wasn’t discovered for another 15 years. The second coelacanth was found in 1952 by two fishermen of the Comoro Islands–a small island chain nestled in between Madagascar and mainland Africa.
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(25-06-2024, 11:47 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: UFO Sightings Caught on Camera!. Prove Is Out There ... 
https://youtu.be/2vwfwGm7YFw?si=Bh0bxsA4c8hl8e4G
Those in Ukraine, or from unknow to us. They UFO work like Magician. ![[Image: alien.png]](https://sgtalk.net/images/smilies/Live_Messenger/alien.png)
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(10-09-2024, 05:27 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: https://fortune.com/2024/09/07/boeing-st...-musk-iss/
NASA-Boeing astronaut Butch Wilmore on Starliner’s return: ‘We found some things we just could not get comfortable with’
NASA-Boeing astronaut Butch Wilmore explained on Friday why Starliner returned to Earth, leaving him and Sunita Williams in space 
. “In this case, we found some things we could just not get comfortable with putting us back in the Starliner…,” he said. NASA-Boeing astronaut Butch Wilmore explained on Friday why Starliner returned to Earth, 15 Sep 2024. In this still image taken from NASA TV broadcast, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore ® and Sunita Williams hold a news conference from the International Space Station (ISS). NASA-Starliner astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore spoke about their space station mission for the first time after the Starliner spacecraft successfully returned to Earth earlier in Sept. late Friday, Sunita Williams said she is loving her time up in space, while Wilmore said some trying times" since start of mission in space. He explained why Starliner returned to Earth without him & Sunita Williams.
Sunita Williams & Butch Wilmore are still in space, duo went up to space on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft Calypso but come back home on a SpaceX craft in February 2025. Starliner, which faced technical issues during its spaceflight, landed back on Earth on September 7.
1. 'Trying times': Wilmore said, "It's quite an evolution over last 3-mths have been involved from beginning in all processes of assessing our spacecraft Calypso, & was trying at times. There were some tough times all the way through. Also Read | Will Sunita Williams vote for US elections from space? ’It’s pretty cool’
2. 'We found some things': Butch explained why Starliner left International Space Station without him and Sunita Williams. “In this case, we found some things we could just not get comfortable with putting us back in the Starliner when we have other options....we were very fortunate that we had space station and that we had other options to stay and come back in different way if that's what the data showed.
3. 'We ran out of time': Butch said he believes they could have got to the point where they have returned on Starliner, but "we simply ran out of time" b'cos there were tests & assessments that needed to be done, officials had to make decision on a timeline as Starliner mission was a short-term mission & a long-duration mission. "Had we had a little more time, have done it...we did have enough time to get end of the runway where we could say that we would come back at it.
4. Changes needed in Starliner: Willmore said, "We have lessons learnt that we will go through. We will have discussions" with NASA and Boeing regarding what needs to change in order to get Starliner back on track. He said things that need to change will change. "...when you have issues like those we had, there are some changes that need to be made...Boeing's on board with. We are all on board with that," he said.
NASA admitted to having a 'difference opinions' with Boeing during a discussion over the return plan for astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. "I would say the teams were very split."
This is my happy place': Sunita Williams said, "happy place". I love up here in space. It's fun 
...it adds a little different perspective." She said very peaceful in space. "It's really difficult for me to imagine people on Earth not getting along...it's one planet we have should all really be happy that we are there together...," she added.
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- SpaceX's 5-day-long Polaris Dawn expedition returned to Earth on Sept 15 with its 4 astronaut crew having undertaken world's first private spacewalk, AP reported. The crew, comprising tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, who served as Mission Commander; Mission Specialist and Medical Officer Anna Menon; Mission Specialist Sarah Gillis; and Mission pilot Scott Poteet, splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico today after their historic mission. Menon & Gillis are both SpaceX engineers, while Poteet is a former Air Force Thunderbird pilot.
The AP report added that besides the spacewalk feat, the four astronauts also hold the distinction of having travelled higher than anyone has since NASA’s moonwalkers. SpaceX considers the brief exercise a starting point to test spacesuit technology for future, longer missions to Mars, as per the report.
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On October 27, 1954, a match between Fiorentina and Pistoiese came to a sudden halt when unidentified flying objects were spotted in the sky.
More than 10,000 fans, players, and officials were left in awe as strange, egg-shaped objects hovered above the stadium, shimmering in the autumn sky. The crowd erupted in excitement, pointing upwards as play came to a standstill.
While some spectators, like Fiorentina fan Gigi Boni, described the objects as “Cuban cigars,” the mysterious incident was not confined to Florence.
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No weapons that forms against me shall prosper
No tongue that rises against me I shall condemn
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