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NASA’s Psyche probe will capture thousands of Mars images during Friday’s flyby — then won’t see another planet until 2029

On Friday, May 15, 2026, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will swing past Mars at roughly 12,333 mph, skimming within about 2,800 ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft captures a haunting crescent view of Mars before a dramatic May 15 flyby

Deep space can produce some truly strange and beautiful sights. A newly released image from NASA is now drawing attention ...
Space on MSN

Zoom into the galaxy that hosted the longest gamma-ray burst

GRB 250702B is 'the longest gamma-ray burst that astronomers have ever observed,' according to NOIRLab. See imagery of the ...
Jewish Insider

Donald Trump’s Shabbat project

President Donald Trump encouraged Jewish Americans to observe Shabbat next weekend in his Jewish American Heritage Month ...
Optics

Catching distant gamma-ray explosions with precisely aligned x-ray optics

Researchers develop and validate a precise alignment method for lobster-eye X-ray optics to improve gamma-ray burst detection accuracy Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) rank among the most powerful explosions ...
New Scientist

We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time

Astronomers think they have seen a type of explosion produced by a dying star called a dirty fireball for the first time, and it could help us understand how massive stars die. When a massive star ...
The Source Magazine

The $6 Million Silence: Secret 2023 Settlement Between Kim Kardashian and Ray J Surfaces

Nineteen years after Vivid Entertainment first released the adult film that arguably changed the landscape of modern celebrity culture, the legal fallout between Kim Kardashian and Ray J is still ...
earth

Gamma-ray burst reveals the aftermath of colliding galaxies from 8.5 billion years ago

Gamma-ray bursts rank among the most powerful explosions in the universe, often flashing for less than a second while releasing enormous amounts of energy. Astronomers usually trace these brief bursts ...
Gizmodo

Astronomers Just Found a Monster Cosmic Explosion in the Last Place They Expected

Most gamma-ray bursts—the brightest, most powerful explosions in the universe—are tracked back to the deaths of massive stars. But a new discovery suggests that such enormous explosions can come from ...
The Conversation

Astrophysicists trace the origin of valuable metals in space, from colliding stars to merging galaxies

This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode. ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser, CC BY Billions of light years away in a remote part of ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Kumar, D., Rani, N., Jain, D., Mahajan, S. and Mukherjee, A. (2023) Gamma Rays Bursts: A Viable Cosmological Probe? Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2023 ...

ABSTRACT: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely powerful stellar explosions that have been observed to huge distances with redshifts exceeding 9. Although GRBs are not standard candles, one may ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Steinhardt, C.L., Mann, W.J., Rusakov, V. and Jespersen, C.K. (2023) Classification of BATSE, Swift, and Fermi Gamma-Ray Bursts from Prompt Emission Alone. The Astrophysical ...

ABSTRACT: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely powerful stellar explosions that have been observed to huge distances with redshifts exceeding 9. Although GRBs are not standard candles, one may ...