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Eclipse weather forecast: clear skies in the Northeast, clouds in Texas
A total solar eclipse April 8 will enter over Mexico's Pacific coast, dash up through Texas and Oklahoma, crisscross the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and New England, before exiting over eastern Canada into the Atlantic. Credit: AP Photo, File

Clouds are likely to spoil the view of the total solar eclipse in Texas and other spots along the path in North America, according to forecasts on Saturday,

Meteorologists this weekend are fine-tuning their predictions ahead of Monday's eclipse as spectators try to scope out the best places to watch the moon block out the sun for a few minutes.

"Most of Texas doesn't look that great for seeing the eclipse," National Weather Service meteorologist Bob Oravec said Saturday.

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Washington (AFP) April 7, 2024
Just a single, unguarded glance at a solar eclipse can result in a lifetime of vision loss, eye health experts warn. On Monday, tens of millions of spectators across Mexico, the United States and Canada will witness the Moon completely obscure the Sun's light, a rare celestial spectacle that won't be visible for most of North America again until 2044. Medical literature is teeming with e
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Washington DC (UPI) Apr 5, 2024
SpaceX launched a payload of 23 Starlink satellites Friday atop a Falcon 9 booster from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Complex. The spacecraft launched at 5:12 a.m. EDT with the first stage booster rocket separating shortly after liftoff and landing on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean shortly afterward. SpaceX confirmed that the Starlink
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Moscow (AFP) April 6, 2024
A NASA astronaut, a Russian cosmonaut and Belarus's first ever space traveller on Saturday returned to Earth safely after a fortnight aboard the International Space Station, Russia's Roscosmos agency reported. "Today, at 10:17am Moscow time (0717 GMT), the descent vehicle of Sozuz MS-24 manned spacecraft landed near the Kazakh city of Jezkazgan," Roscosmos reported. "The (vessel's) deor
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2024
L3Harris Technologies and Aerojet Rocketdyne have concluded a comprehensive series of development and certification tests for the RS-25 engine, confirming its readiness for upcoming Artemis missions, starting with Artemis V. These tests were carried out at NASA's Stennis Space Center, involving a total of 45 development tests and 24 certification tests. The RS-25 engines, crucial for the p
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Buckley SFB CO (SPX) Apr 08, 2024
"The first time I launched, my rocket didn't go where it was supposed to go, it had an in-flight anomaly, came apart and we landed in the middle of the Kazakhstan step," said U.S. Space Force Col. Nick Hague, NASA astronaut. "It was nice to be able to come and meet the people (Guardians) that were providing a little bit of over watch and making sure the rescue forces were going to get to where w

When and How to Spot the 'Devil Comet'

Sunday, 07 April 2024 12:27
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 08, 2024
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is one of the brightest known periodic comets. It earned the nickname of "devil comet" in 2023 when an outburst caused the comet to have an asymmetrical appearance, like having horns. It comes around every 71 years and is currently getting brighter as it flies toward the Sun. In the Northern Hemisphere, the comet is best viewed with binoculars or a small telescope - r
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2024
Scientists often equate the process of information scrambling in black holes with the ultimate limit of quantum mechanical behavior, where every bit of quantum data is thoroughly mixed. New findings from Rice University, in collaboration with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, challenge this notion by demonstrating that molecular reactions in chemistry can scramble quantum information
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 08, 2024
The CHEOPS space telescope, managed by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), has made a landmark observation of the exoplanet WASP-76b, revealing an atmospheric phenomenon akin to a "glory," akin to a rainbow, which could mark the first instance of such an event being identified outside our solar system. This discovery stems from a collaborative effort involving the European Space Agency (ESA) and t

First 'glory' on hellish distant world

Sunday, 07 April 2024 12:27
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Paris (ESA) Apr 08, 2024
Data from Cheops and its friends suggest that between the unbearable heat and light of exoplanet WASP-76b's sunlit face, and the endless night of its dark side, may be the first extrasolar 'glory'. The effect, similar to a rainbow, occurs when light is reflected off clouds made up of a perfectly uniform but so far unknown substance. "There's a reason no glory has been seen before outside o
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Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Apr 08, 2024
In a new study, scientists at the University of Melbourne's ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics have made significant advancements in understanding dark matter by studying neutron stars, potentially unlocking new methods to detect this elusive component of our universe. Recent findings, detailed in The Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, suggest that when
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 08, 2024
The enigmatic birth of stars and their less luminous counterparts, brown dwarfs, has long intrigued astronomers. Recently, an international research team led by Dr. Basmah Riaz from the University Observatory Munich used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe an extremely young brown dwarf, Ser-emb 16. Their findings, which reveal novel structural complexities during

Galaxies grow more chaotic over time

Sunday, 07 April 2024 12:27
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 08, 2024
A new study led by Professor Scott Croom of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) and the School of Physics has demonstrated that the age of a galaxy is the principal factor influencing its increasing disorganization over time, challenging previous beliefs that mass and environmental conditions were predominant influences. This research, which met
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2024
Sierra Space, a leader in the commercial space-tech and defense-tech industries, has launched its innovative Eclipse satellite bus line, marking a significant advancement in space systems technology. The new series, named Eclipse Velocity, Eclipse Horizon, and Eclipse Titan, are tailored to meet the diverse needs of modern space missions, setting a new benchmark in earth observation, satellite s
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