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Don’t count on NASA to return humans to the Moon in 2025 or 2026, GAO says (arstechnica.com)
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2023 Space-Telescope Advent Calendar (www.theatlantic.com)
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Extremely large telescopes at risk (www.science.org)
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Deep space astronauts may be prone to erectile dysfunction, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
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JWST Observers Set World Record for Astronomical Proposal Submissions (www.stsci.edu)
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If You're Trying to Prevent an Asteroid Impact, the Technical and Political Challenges are Staggering (www.universetoday.com)
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A Universe of Sound: By translating the inherently digital data captured by telescopes in space into images, astronomers can create visual representations of what would otherwise be invisible to us. (chandra.si.edu)
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Russia's long-duration space journey on Earth put 6 people in isolation for a year (www.space.com)
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A space station fell to Earth. An Australian boy brought it to San Francisco (www.sfgate.com)
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A simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy from urban light pollution (www.space.com)
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That Time NASA Built A Tiny Tank To Pop Shuttle Tires (hackaday.com)
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Scientists use Raspberry Pi tech to protect NASA 'scope data (www.theregister.com)
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NOAA forecasts quicker, stronger peak of solar activity | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center (www.swpc.noaa.gov)
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Can comets deliver prebiotic molecules to rocky exoplanets? (royalsocietypublishing.org)
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GitHub - cosmoscout/cosmoscout-vr: :milky_way: A virtual universe which lets you explore, analyze and present huge planetary datasets and large simulation data in real-time. (github.com)
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ULA chief on the Vulcan rocket: “The path to flight one is clear” (arstechnica.com)
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IllustrisTNG: A suite of state-of-the-art cosmological galaxy formation simulations used to study a broad range of topics surrounding how the Universe — and the galaxies within it — evolved over time (www.tng-project.org)
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Why the Space Force wants white hats to attack a satellite (www.itpro.com)
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Scientists show how to turn lunar soil fertile for agriculture (www.reuters.com)
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Chinese lander’s cotton seeds spring to life on far side of the moon (www.scmp.com)
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$200m Gift Propels Scientific Research in the Search for Life Beyond Earth (www.seti.org)
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XKCD: Under the Stars (xkcd.com)
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Something Mysterious Appears to Be Suppressing the Universe's Growth, Scientists Say (www.vice.com)
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Mysterious 'fountain of youth' near Milky Way's central black hole is full of newborn stars that shouldn't exist (www.livescience.com)
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/3418628

The James Webb Space Telescope and other galactic surveys have confirmed there's a stellar "fountain of youth" birthing new stars near the Milky Way's central black hole, where they shouldn't be able to exist.

Near the galaxy's supermassive black hole, strong radiation and gravitational forces create extremely inhospitable conditions for new star formation.

However, for decades now, astronomers have seen young stars near the galactic center, defying all their predictions. A particular cluster of young stars, known as IRS13, was discovered over 20 years ago. By combining data from many different telescopes, astronomers confirmed the stars in IRS13 are only about 100,000 years old, cosmic newborns compared to Earth's sun (4.6 billion years old), let alone the Milky Way itself (13.6 billion years old).

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The ozone hole above Antarctica has grown to three times the size of Brazil (www.space.com)
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