# space telescope (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 8 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover space telescope. Page: Feed: --- ## [Why trauma changes how our memory engages with our conscious experience](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-trauma-changes-how-our-memory-engages-with-our-conscious-experience/) _2026-08-22 · Scientific American_ Trauma can distort how memories are stored and retrieved in the brain ## [Aurora Australis over IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/aurora-australis-over-icecube-neutrino.html) _2026-08-22 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ Aurora Australis over IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica The IceCube Neutrino Observatory (or simply IceCube) is a neutrino observatory constructed at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. Also known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), auroras are colorful, dynamic, and often visually delicate displays of an intricate dance of… ## [The Sky around R Coronae Australis Star-forming Region | Digitized Sky Survey 2](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/the-sky-around-r-coronae-australis-star.html) _2026-08-22 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ The Sky around R Coronae Australis Star-forming Region | Digitized Sky Survey 2 This image shows the sky around the R Coronae Australis star-forming region in the southern constellation of Corona Australis. This part of the sky also contains interesting regions of dark and bright nebulosity surrounding the variable star R Coronae Australis (upper left), as well as the globular star cluster NGC… ## [R Coronae Australis Star-forming Region: Wide-field view](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/r-coronae-australis-star-forming-region.html) _2026-08-21 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ R Coronae Australis Star-forming Region: Wide-field view This wide field image shows the area around the star R Coronae Australis. A huge dust cloud, about eight light-years across, dominates the center of the image. The bluish reflection nebula close to R Coronae Australis is right of center and the globular cluster NGC 6723 lies to the upper-right of the nebula. Corona Australis is a tiny… ## [Close-up: R Coronae Australis Star-forming Region | ESO’s La Silla Observatory](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/close-up-r-coronae-australis-star.html) _2026-08-21 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ Close-up: R Coronae Australis Star-forming Region | ESO’s La Silla Observatory The nearby star-forming region around the star R Coronae Australis imaged by the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. R Coronae Australis (R CrA) is a variable binary star system in the constellation Corona Australis. Distance… ## [Is lettuce safe to eat yet? New data suggest cyclosporiasis cases are slowing](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-lettuce-safe-to-eat-yet-new-data-suggests-cyclosporiasis-cases-are-slowing/) _2026-08-21 · Scientific American_ After a spike in infections in July, this explosive-diarrhea-causing outbreak may be coming to an end ## [Meir & Menon Spacewalk: Cosmonaut Anna Kikina View | International Space Station](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/meir-menon-spacewalk-cosmonaut-anna.html) _2026-08-21 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ Meir & Menon Spacewalk: Cosmonaut Anna Kikina View | International Space Station Expedition 75 commander, flight engineer, and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir: "Perspective is everything.🌍Gazing down at Earth from above offers an incredibly profound one, as does looking back at the International Space Station from a window in the Russian segment. Our crewmate Anna Kikina captured this incredible… ## [Webb Opens Treasure Chest](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/webb-opens-a-treasure-chest-filled-with-stars/) _2026-08-21 · NASA Image of the Day_ This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month takes us to a fantastical realm within our home galaxy, where piercing starlight and billowing winds sculpt dust clouds into inventive shapes. This scene is from the Carina Nebula, which lies just 7500 light-years away in the constellation Carina (the Keel). ## [Why tornadoes touched down near New York City](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-tornadoes-touched-down-near-new-york-city/) _2026-08-21 · Scientific American_ Twisters don't touch down in New York City often, but they can when the conditions are just right ## [Planet Mars Images: Aug. 18-20, 2026 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/planet-mars-images-aug-18-20-2026-nasas.html) _2026-08-21 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ Planet Mars Images: Aug. 18-20, 2026 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers MSL - sol 4988 MSL - sol 4985 MSL - sol 4988 MSL - sol 4988 Mars 2020 - sol 1955 MSL - sol 4987 MSL - sol 4986 MSL - sol 4986 We invite you to become a monthly Friends of NASA supporter on our website: https://www.friendsofnasa.org/p/friends-of-nasa.html Friends of NASA (FoN) is an independent non-governmental… ## [Dissecting Series A Rounds (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fOl21nCPjG28) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Two real Series A cases: timelines, investor sequencing, and common founder mistakes. ## [Why this El Niño will be the largest in living memory](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-this-el-nino-will-be-the-largest-in-living-memory/) _2026-08-21 · Scientific American_ A strengthening El Ni o may surpass any seen since the 19th century and will usher in another record hot year or two ## [What you need to know about West Nile virus](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-you-need-to-know-about-west-nile-virus/) _2026-08-21 · Scientific American_ The mosquito-borne illness has sickened hundreds of people this year ## [‘Earth-like’ exoplanets may exist—but we don’t know of any yet](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-like-exoplanets-may-exist-but-we-dont-know-of-any-yet/) _2026-08-21 · Scientific American_ Claiming an exoplanet to be "Earth-like" is a trend that needs to bite the dust ## [What happened when people with anorexia tried magic mushrooms](https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/what-happened-when-people-with-anorexia-tried-magic-mushrooms/) _2026-08-21 · Scientific American_ Researchers are exploring whether magic mushrooms could offer a new treatment for anorexia ## [The national debt is $40 trillion. What does that mean mathematically?](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-national-debt-is-40-trillion-what-does-that-mean-mathematically/) _2026-08-21 · Scientific American_ An investigation into the incomprehensibly, unfathomably large amount of money the U.S. owes ## [China Is About to Launch Its Most Ambitious Moon Mission Yet](https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/0121220/china-is-about-to-launch-its-most-ambitious-moon-mission-yet?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-21 · BeauHD · Slashdot: Science_ China's Chang'e 7 mission is set to launch for the moon's south pole, where it will attempt the first-ever landing directly at the pole and search the region's dark craters for water ice. "It's an amazing mission," says Norbert Schorghofer, a Hawaii-based senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute. "There has never been a landed mission to find water \[on the moon\]." If successful, China… ## [IC 883 in Canes Venatici: A Galactic Merger Remnant | Hubble Space Telescope](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/ic-883-in-canes-venatici-galactic.html) _2026-08-21 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ IC 883 in Canes Venatici: A Galactic Merger Remnant | Hubble Space Telescope IC 883 displays a very disturbed, complex central region with two tidal tails of approximately the same length emerging at nearly right angles—one diagonally to the top right of the frame and the other to the bottom right. The twin tidal tails suggest that IC 883 is the remnant of the merger of two gas-rich disc galaxies.… ## [China Landspace Zhuque-3 Y2 Reusable Rocket: Payload Capacity Upgrades](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/china-landspace-zhuque-3-y2-reusable.html) _2026-08-21 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ China Landspace Zhuque-3 Y2 Reusable Rocket: Payload Capacity Upgrades ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Zhuque-3 Y2 rocket has undergone multiple technological upgrades, ranging from its nozzle to the landing legs, to boost its payload capacity, said Dai Zheng, engineering chief for the Zhuque-3. The rocket blasted off at 7:35am Beijing Time Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026, from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation pilot… ## [SpaceX Starship Single Engine Static Fire Pre-flight Test#14](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/spacex-starship-single-engine-static.html) _2026-08-21 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ SpaceX Starship Single Engine Static Fire Pre-flight Test#14 Ahead of SpaceX's Flight Test#14 on Thursday, August 20, 2026, "Starship completed a single engine static fire demonstrating a deorbit burn for upcoming orbital missions." Starship Flight Test#13 Summary: On Friday, July 24, 2026, at 5:51 p.m. CT, Starship lifted off from Starbase, Texas on its thirteenth flight test. This was the second… ## [Wide-field view: Flocculent Spiral NGC 2841 in Ursa Major | Digitized Sky Survey 2](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/wide-field-view-flocculent-spiral-ngc.html) _2026-08-20 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ Wide-field view: Flocculent Spiral NGC 2841 in Ursa Major | Digitized Sky Survey 2 This image shows the area around flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 2841. It is produced from Digitized Sky Survey 2 images. The Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) is a ground-based imaging survey of the entire sky in several colors of light produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute through its Guide Star Survey group.… ## [Hire AI-Powered Freelancers Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ntYTT2dH9ujA) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Browse and hire skilled professionals using AI tools — free to post, free to apply. ## [Journey to Flocculent Spiral NGC 2841 in Ursa Major | Hubble Space Telescope](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/journey-to-flocculent-spiral-ngc-2841.html) _2026-08-20 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ Journey to Flocculent Spiral NGC 2841 in Ursa Major | Hubble Space Telescope Star formation is one of the most important processes shaping the Universe. It plays a pivotal role in the evolution of galaxies and it is also in the earliest stages of star formation that planetary systems first appear. Yet there is still much that astronomers do not understand, such as how do the properties of stellar… ## [Close-up: Flocculent Spiral NGC 2841 in Ursa Major | Hubble Space Telescope](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/close-up-flocculent-spiral-ngc-2841-in.html) _2026-08-20 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ Close-up: Flocculent Spiral NGC 2841 in Ursa Major | Hubble Space Telescope Star formation is one of the most important processes shaping the Universe. It plays a pivotal role in the evolution of galaxies and it is also in the earliest stages of star formation that planetary systems first appear. Yet there is still much that astronomers do not understand, such as how do the properties of stellar… ## [Does Using AI to Edit an Op-Ed on Students' Math Skills Undermine the Argument?](https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/20/1729258/does-using-ai-to-edit-an-op-ed-on-students-math-skills-undermine-the-argument?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-20 · BeauHD · Slashdot: Science_ An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, criticizing a "severe" math deficiency among students in an op-ed for the San Francisco Standard, admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit the piece. The Standard published a 2,000-word piece by Zvezdelina Stankova last week, in which the professor said some of her math… ## [Physicists pinpoint the perfect crystal site for an ultra-accurate nuclear clock](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-pinpoint-the-perfect-crystal-site-for-an-ultra-accurate-nuclear-clock/) _2026-08-20 · Scientific American_ Growing crystals "like alchemy," researchers plotted out the ideal site within the lattice to build a nuclear clock ## [China’s solar power rollout is harming birds, a new analysis finds](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinas-solar-power-rollout-is-harming-birds-a-new-analysis-finds/) _2026-08-20 · Scientific American_ A new study finds that China's solar energy boom is hurting bird diversity ## [Flocculent Spiral NGC 2841 in Ursa Major | Hubble Space Telescope](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/flocculent-spiral-ngc-2841-in-ursa.html) _2026-08-20 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ Flocculent Spiral NGC 2841 in Ursa Major | Hubble Space Telescope Star formation is one of the most important processes shaping the Universe. It plays a pivotal role in the evolution of galaxies and it is also in the earliest stages of star formation that planetary systems first appear. Yet there is still much that astronomers do not understand, such as how do the properties of stellar nurseries… ## [Private Chinese firm lands Zhuque-3 reusable rocket on its legs for first time](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/private-chinese-firm-lands-zhuque-3.html) _2026-08-20 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ Private Chinese firm lands Zhuque-3 reusable rocket on its legs for first time China successfully achieved its first-ever land-based recovery of a commercial first-stage booster after it launched the Zhuque-3 Y2 rocket into orbit on Wednesday morning, Aug. 19, 2026. Landing a rocket upright on its legs is incredibly difficult, a move previously mastered by only a few groups like Elon Musk's… ## [Europe’s summer of wildfires is just a taste of what’s to come](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/europes-summer-of-wildfires-is-just-a-taste-of-whats-to-come/) _2026-08-20 · Scientific American_ The area of Europe affected by wildfires is due to triple, a new study finds ## [Orbital data centers could transform our night sky forever](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/orbital-data-centers-could-transform-our-night-sky-forever/) _2026-08-20 · Scientific American_ Without drastic interventions, data centers in space could disrupt scientific observations and fragile ecosystems by adding almost innumerable new "stars" to the heavens above ## [Artemis Mission Patches](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-1304/) _2026-08-20 · NASA Image of the Day_ A NASA jacket containing Artemis I and II mission patches, along with other NASA patches hangs on the back of a chair on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, inside Firing Room 1 of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a terminal countdown simulation for the Artemis III mission. ## [Your 24/7 AI Media Buyer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HvXDtPnFKVjP) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Finds placement, geo, and funnel leaks and proposes fixes you approve ## [The California Nebula: NGC 1499 in Perseus | Kitt Peak National Observatory](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/the-california-nebula-ngc-1499-in.html) _2026-08-20 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ The California Nebula: NGC 1499 in Perseus | Kitt Peak National Observatory This "stately" nebula resides about a thousand light years away towards the outer (Orion) arm of our galaxy. The glowing portion of the nebula is around 100 light years in extent. However, this entire region is filled with galactic gas and it is a place where many massive and luminous stars have formed. This family of… ## [Life’s ‘last universal common ancestor’ may predate life itself](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lifes-last-universal-common-ancestor-may-predate-life-itself/) _2026-08-20 · Scientific American_ A groundbreaking study hints at a hazy boundary between "life" and "non-life," as well as two distinct origins of biology on Earth ## [China’s Chang’e 7 moonshot will seek water ice at the lunar south pole](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinas-change-7-moonshot-will-seek-water-ice-at-the-lunar-south-pole/) _2026-08-20 · Scientific American_ The country's latest mission, Chang'e 7, will be the first ever to land directly at the moon's south pole. Whatever it finds there could radically reshape a new space race ## [Should you be taking testosterone?](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/should-you-be-taking-testosterone/) _2026-08-20 · Scientific American_ Testosterone is a longtime favorite of the bodybuilding crowd, but now the hormone is being touted for perimenopause, "looks maxxing," and more ## [Rescue Mission Is Called Off For NASA's Aging Swift Space Telescope](https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/19/2213259/rescue-mission-is-called-off-for-nasas-aging-swift-space-telescope?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-20 · BeauHD · Slashdot: Science_ NASA has called off a $30 million mission to rescue its aging Swift space telescope after Katalyst Space's Link spacecraft developed persistent control and positioning problems. The Associated Press reports: Katalyst said Link will not attempt to capture Swift and boost it to a higher orbit because of problems with controlling the spacecraft. NASA said this means the telescope will plunge through… ## [Does the Milky Way's central black hole rotate? This star could tell us | ESO](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/does-milky-way-central-black-hole.html) _2026-08-20 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ Does the Milky Way's central black hole rotate? This star could tell us | ESO Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy, the Milky Way, orbiting Sagittarius A\*, the black hole at its center. The star, named S301, was detected with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) and it reaches speeds of more than 8% the speed of light. It comes… ## [China Landspace Reusable Rocket Mission Recap: Launch & First Stage Landing](https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2026/08/china-landspace-reusable-rocket-mission.html) _2026-08-19 · Dwayne Lawrence - Friends of NASA | Executive Director, Editor-in-Chief and Founder · Friends of NASA_ China Landspace Reusable Rocket Mission Recap: Launch & First Stage Landing 🚀China achieved its first recovery of a rocket's first stage on land after launching and recovering part of the Zhuque-3 reusable rocket on Wednesday morning, Aug. 19, 2026. The Landspace Zhuque-3 (ZQ-3) Y2 rocket blasted off at 07:35 (Beijing Time) from the Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Pilot Zone in northwest… ## [NASA calls off rescue mission for its falling Swift space telescope](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-calls-off-rescue-mission-for-its-falling-swift-space-telescope/) _2026-08-19 · Scientific American_ The space agency's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which studied cataclysmic cosmic explosions, is expected to burn up in Earth's atmosphere later this year ## [Moderna and Merck announce ‘landmark’ trial showing mRNA therapy significantly cuts odds of recurrent skin cancer](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/moderna-and-merck-announce-landmark-trial-showing-mrna-therapy-significantly-cuts-odds-of-recurrent-skin-cancer/) _2026-08-19 · Scientific American_ The combined drug works by nudging the body's own immune system to make proteins that attack and destroy melanoma cells ## [Moderna, Merck Say mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning](https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/19/1725205/moderna-merck-say-mrna-vaccine-prevents-melanoma-from-returning?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-19 · BeauHD · Slashdot: Science_ Moderna and Merck say their personalized mRNA melanoma vaccine significantly reduced both cancer recurrence and spread in a late-stage trial. The treatment could reach patients as soon as next year if regulators approve it. Reuters reports: Moderna developed the vaccine with Merck and tested it together with immunotherapy drug Keytruda, a widely used treatment for melanoma. \[...\] This is the first… ## [Some microbes could survive on the moon—that’s a big problem for NASA](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/some-microbes-could-survive-on-the-moon-thats-a-big-problem-for-nasa/) _2026-08-19 · Scientific American_ Five common microorganisms found on Earth could survive at the lunar south pole, a new study finds, presenting a contamination risk for future human missions ## [Ancient Milky Way Merger](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/stsci-01kz4n4d8g9ak26cf28hd5nt5n-d2d764/) _2026-08-19 · NASA Image of the Day_ About 12 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy known as LKH collided with a young Milky Way and merged with it. This artist’s concept portrays that collision. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope uncovered definitive evidence of this collision by studying globular star clusters. ## [Babies Born Under Sugar Rationing Grew Into Adults With Lower Cancer Risk](https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/19/0534224/babies-born-under-sugar-rationing-grew-into-adults-with-lower-cancer-risk?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-19 · BeauHD · Slashdot: Science_ A study of more than 64,000 people born around the end of Britain's postwar sugar rationing found that those exposed to less sugar during their first 1,000 days had lower rates of five cancers decades later, including roughly 69% lower liver cancer risk and 36% lower breast cancer risk. They also "showed signs of slower biological aging" and "continued to consume less sugar and had healthier diets… ## [NASA's B777 Gets New Coat of Paint](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2026e407303/) _2026-08-18 · NASA Image of the Day_ NASA's Boeing 777 returns to the agency's Langley Research Center after receiving a new paint scheme. ## [Colorful Collage of Tarantula Nebula](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/30dor-crop/) _2026-08-17 · NASA Image of the Day_ Like a collage made of layered sheets of colored cellophane, a vibrant new image layers observations of a famous star-forming nebula from NASA space telescopes. The resulting cosmic “craft” reveals new details about the star formation region known as 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula. ## [Science Release: Hubble solves merger mystery from Milky Way’s early years](https://esahubble.org/news/heic2611/) _2026-08-17 · ESAHubble News_ Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its current size in part by consuming smaller galaxies. Now, new data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way galaxy in the earliest phases of its evolution. This finding extends our knowledge of our galaxy’s history 1.8 billion years farther back in time than before. ## [China's Moon-landing Plans And Why the US Is So Worried](https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/16/231206/chinas-moon-landing-plans-and-why-the-us-is-so-worried?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-16 · EditorDavid · Slashdot: Science_ "We are in a 21st century space race," U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has said. And this week CNN noted a competition that for decades loomed in the background of geopolitics "is now roaring to the forefront," with China "demonstrating rapid advances in space technology" while the U.S. is "ratcheting up rhetoric about a looming battle for control of the cosmos." It's the fact that China plans to build a… ## [SpaceX Launches Two Falcon 9 Rockets just 38 Minutes Apart](https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/16/0647207/spacex-launches-two-falcon-9-rockets-just-38-minutes-apart?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-16 · EditorDavid · Slashdot: Science_ An anonymous reader shares this report from Space.com: On Saturday evening (Aug. 15), SpaceX set another mark, for the shortest time between orbital flights: It launched two Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart, besting its old mark - set on Aug. 31, 2024 with two Starlink missions - by 27 minutes. The first liftoff, from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, occurred Saturday at 9:12… ## [Copper's Surprising Melting Behavior Provides Insights for Future Fusion Power Plant Design](https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/16/0227237/coppers-surprising-melting-behavior-provides-insights-for-future-fusion-power-plant-design?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-16 · EditorDavid · Slashdot: Science_ Phys.org reports: Future fusion power plants aim to recreate the heart of a star here on Earth to power our future energy needs. While the core fusion plasma will burn at hundreds of millions of degrees, the surrounding structural components must handle sudden, punishing heat loads that rival the extreme temperatures faced by spacecraft upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere. Copper and its alloys… ## [Astronomers Discover a New Kind of Cosmic Object: a Black Hole 'Star'](https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/14/2224234/astronomers-discover-a-new-kind-of-cosmic-object-a-black-hole-star?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-15 · BeauHD · Slashdot: Science_ Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope say they may have found a new class of object: a "black hole star," in which a black hole is wrapped in dense gas and radiates in ways that resemble an enormous star. The Guardian reports: The international team made the breakthrough after focusing their attention on a mysterious red spot in images of the early universe captured by Nasa's James Webb…