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Satellite Events for Tonight

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Tyndall’s Trail of Bergs

Reported by NASA

Ice splintered off the southern Patagonia glacier and drifted across a growing glacial lake....
  • By: NASA
  • On: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:01 +0000

Flight Dynamics Research Facility Characteristics

Reported by NASA

HomeCharacteristics The Flight Dynamics Research Facility (FDRF) is a large, subsonic wind tunnel with a vertical test section for conducting flight dynamics research for stability, controllability, free-fall and aircraft spin, and spin recovery testing of...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:47 +0000

Artemis III Crew Announced

Reported by NASA

NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, and NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik and Frank Rubio take a photo together on June 9, 2026. The four were announced as the Artemis III crew. NASA’s Artemis III mission i...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:32 +0000

Why Can't the Universe Be Cyclic? Part 4: When a Good Idea Meets Bad Data

Reported by Universe Today

The ekpyrotic universe is a beautiful idea that runs headlong into the data. From hand-waved singularities and assumed dark energy to the killer blow from Planck and WMAP measurements of the cosmic microwave background, here is why nature has so far voted ...
  • By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
  • On: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:06 +0000

Orbiting Stars Give Clues to a Quiescent Black Hole's Mass

Reported by Universe Today

How do you measure the mass of a dormant black hole in the early Universe? That's a question astronomers at University College London (UCL) and Carnegie scientists wanted to answer about a distant object that is invisible. So, they turned to James Webb Spa...
  • By: Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cc-petersen)
  • On: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:52 +0000

Magnetic Fields Help Binary Stars Form and Black Holes Merge

Reported by Universe Today

New simulations show that interactions with a magnetic field can work to decrease the distance between still forming binary protostars. These results can help explain the characteristics of the binary star systems observed in the Milky Way. These results c...
  • By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
  • On: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:27 +0000