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It will appear 6.2% larger and 12.8% brighter than the average full moon

The phenomenon occurs when the Moon is in its full phase and coincides with perigee, the period in which it approaches Earth. As a result, it appears larger and brighter in the sky.

WHY IS IT NAMED BLUE MOON? The second full moon of the month, an event that occurs within a two-year interval, this is the name given to two full moons in the same month. The Moon will not turn blue.

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Today is the night of the Super Blue Moon.

An asteroid is heading towards Earth. What would you do?

Nikola Tesla: On January 7 1943 Tesla died alone and abandoned in the New Yorker

and engineers on Earth race against time to fix multiple issues The two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft are stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) with no timetable for returning home.⁠
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Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were originally scheduled to return to Earth on June 12, after Boeing's Starliner spacecraft launched its first flight.

Astronauts stranded in space: 

What happened?⁠ The spacecraft's return to Earth had already been delayed three times due to problems with some thrusters and leaks of the helium gas that propels fuel into the propulsion system.⁠

But officials said they were relatively minor and tried to downplay them. "These are really pretty minor issues to deal with," Mark Nappi, Boeing's vice president and program manager for Commercial Crew, said during a post-docking press conference. "We'll work them out for the next mission. I don't see them as significant."  ⁠
Starliner was launched on June 5, 2024, although the problem still exists. The leak was extremely small and engineers believed it would not affect the mission, so they went ahead with the launch. But the situation ended up getting worse and the crew has not yet been able to return to the planet.

Now SpaceX is entering the fray and wants to bring the astronauts back on the Dragon spacecraft.

A final decision has not yet been made.

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Two NASA astronauts are stranded on the International Space Station

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Jupiter by the Juno spacecraft. It looks like a work of art by Vincent van Gogh

The first photograph of Earth from space in 1946

"It shouldn't be there, so now we have to explain it. Discovering strange and unexpected things is what makes planetary exploration so exciting."

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Pure sulfur found on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.

7.3 magnitude earthquake hits northern Chile

Scientists demonstrate the existence of a tunnel underground on the Moon

On Neptune, it's raining diamonds.

Impressive record of a dust storm on Mars!

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Hurricane Beryl is set to make landfall in Jamaica

rises to category 5 and is expected to bring strong winds and storm surge to Jamaica on Wednesday (3), according to an update from the US National Hurricane Center.

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Hurricane Beryl

Scientists discovered the asteroid called 2024 MK just a few days before its passage. With a diameter between 120 and 260 meters, 2024 MK will pass just 290 thousand kilometers away from Earth, closer than the Moon, which is about 384.4 thousand km from our planet.
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Scientists say there is no risk of collision. Thank goodness, because any object closer to Earth than 20 meters can cause damage to the ground, and 2024 MK is more than six times that size.

Even if there is no risk of collision, the fact that it was discovered only a week before its passage is a little worrying.

An asteroid the size of 2024 MK would cause considerable damage if it came our way, so discovering its arrival a few days beforehand has alerted the scientific community to the constant need to improve technologies capable of detecting objects close to Earth.

Asteroid 2024 MK will be observable in the sky on Saturday, with the help of a telescope. Asteroid 2024 MK will pass close to Earth 06/29/2024

Asteroid will pass very close to Earth this Saturday (29).

What would you name this Planet?

Today is the longest night of the year

The little black dot is Mercury passing in front of the Sun

The goal of the 10-day, 1.4-million-mile Artemis II voyage around the Moon and back is to demonstrate that all of the Orion spacecraft’s life support and other systems will function as designed with astronauts on board in deep space. The Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2026, will mark a major milestone for humanity, with the first black woman and man walking on the surface of the Moon.

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These are the selected astronauts for the Artemis II mission.

The clearest image ever taken of Venus

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