Space and Astronomy Megathread (MERGED) - Part 1

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A gateway to the Gateway around the moon | Space picture of the day for April 16, 2025

One of the first two modules that will form NASA's Gateway platform in orbit around the moon has arrived at its last stop before the launch site.

www.space.com

 

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Scientists discover bizarre double-star system with exoplanet on a sideways orbit (video)

"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and exciting."

www.space.com

 

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Universe may revolve once every 500 billion years — and that could solve a problem that threatened to break cosmology

A slowly spinning universe could resolve a puzzle in physics known as the Hubble tension, a new model suggests.

www.livescience.com

 

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Astronaut Pettit, 2 cosmonauts undock from the International Space Station - UPI.com

NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner successfully departed the International Space Station for their return voyage to Earth.

www.upi.com

 

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