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  • When The Soviet Union Collapsed, A Cosmonaut Was Left Stranded In Space

    On May 18, 1991, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev departed Earth for the Soviet space station Mir. While he was up there, the country that had sent him ceased to exist, making Krikalev – for a few months at least – the “last Soviet citizen”.

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  • Amateur Astronomer Films the Moment Jupiter Is Hit by a Space Rock

    An amateur astronomer has captured the moment a space rock collided with Jupiter. The debris struck the gas giant, which is the solar system’s largest planet, at 6:39 pm EDT on Monday, creating a flash of light at its surface.

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  • Astronomers discover new ‘fossil galaxy’ buried deep within the Milky Way

    Source: Phys.org Scientists working with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys’ Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) have discovered a “fossil galaxy” hidden in the depths of our own Milky Way. This result, published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, may shake up our understanding of how the Milky Way

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  • Watch Cassie the bipedal robot run a 5K

    And it did so on its own without a tether.

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