Saturday, July 3, 2021

Canadian UFO sightings are up — but are aliens or COVID-19 to blame? - National | Globalnews.ca

On a Friday evening in 2007, Lee and his wife had just returned home for the weekend. After bringing their bags inside, Lee went out to his deck in rural southern New Brunswick for a smoke.

"I was going to go back in and grab my keys, and I go to turn around and I see this thing coming out of the wood line, straight up," he said.

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UFO sighting over Indonesian volcano did come from space - but what is alien?

Or was it perhaps a stray meteor from the annual Eta Aqaurid shower, which peaked on May 28 this year?

After encountering the incredible image online, Mr Waring shared it to his blog, UFOSightinggsDaily.com, where he shared his bizarre interpretation of the phenomenon.

Publisher: Express.co.uk
Date: 2021-07-03T14:00:00 01:00
Author: Sebastian Kettley
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Space station astronauts welcome civilian space travel as billionaires prepare

As two billionaires prepare for launch this month on milestone space flights, professional astronauts aboard the International Space Station said Friday they fully support commercialization and look forward to a rapidly expanding civilian presence on the high frontier.

Both companies plan commercial operations flying wealthy space tourists, government and private-sector researchers and experiments that can take advantage of the few minutes of weightlessness the flights will offer.

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Branson aims to make space trip on July 11, ahead of Bezos | Reuters

It would also mean that Branson would travel beyond Earth's atmosphere ahead of Bezos, the founder of rival space tourism venture Blue Origin.

Reuters reported last month that Branson was considering a show-stealing mission just days ahead of Bezos' planned trip.

Publisher: Reuters
Date: 2021-07-02T01:00:42Z
Author: Eric Johnson
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The Deep Space Atomic Clock just passed its first test | Science News

An atomic clock that could transform deep-space travel has successfully completed its first test run in space.

NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock, which launched on a satellite in June 2019, outperformed all other clocks in space during its first year in orbit around Earth.

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Publisher: Science News
Date: 2021-06-30T15:00:00 00:00
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How rockets work: A complete guide | Space

Rockets are our species' best way of escaping the atmosphere of Earth and reaching space. But the process behind getting these machines to work is far from simple. Here's what you need to know about getting a rocket into space.

Writers and inventors have dreamt of exploring the universe beyond Earth for centuries, but the real challenges of traveling into space only became clear in the 19th century.

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Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2021-06-30T19:51:50 00:00
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Clemson alum Vanessa Wyche tapped to lead NASA Space Center in Houston

Clemson University alumna Vanessa Wyche is officially the director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, according to a release from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The South Carolina native is the first Black woman to lead a NASA Space Center, according to the agency. She has worked at NASA since 1989. Wyche's main goal will be launching Artemis I, the first manned mission to the moon in decades.

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What does space travel do to our cells? | UNSW Newsroom

UNSW Sydney scientists are exploring the effects of microgravity – the condition where people or objects seem to be weightless – on mammalian cells.

UNSW medical researcher Associate Professor Kate Poole and her team are set to investigate how our cells sense changes in gravity as we travel out of the Earth's atmosphere, thanks to a two-year research grant from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

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Date: 2021-07-01T08:53:00 10:00
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Space Perspective to offer balloon rides to space - Axios

Space Perspective wants to take paying customers on flights into the upper atmosphere, 20 miles above the planet, and the company is ready to start selling tickets.

Why it matters: The company is stepping into an increasingly crowded market, with multiple space tourism companies — like Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin — expected to stage their first commercial flights with passengers this year.

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Publisher: Axios
Date: 2021-06-29T17:17:19.955919Z
Author: Miriam Kramer
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The SpaceX Rocket Ship Will Have the Best Bathroom in Space | Travel + Leisure

You know those restaurants where half of the reason to visit is to spend some time in the gorgeous bathroom? Turns out space may be the same thing.

An astronaut set to board the first civilian space flight aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship revealed that the rocket's toilet will be housed in a glass cupola at its tip.

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The Donlon Report: US economy shows positive signs; Billionaires race to space | NewsNation Now

Taco Bell is bringing back a "fan favorite" taco amid the NBA Finals — and even giving them away for free, if one team manages to stage a second-half comeback.

In many parts of the country where they're legal — and probably in many places where they're not — the sounds of fireworks and firecrackers have been heralding the Fourth of July holiday for weeks.

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Publisher: NewsNation Now
Date: 2021-07-03T00:46:26 00:00
Author: Joe Donlon
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NASA's Perseverance rover is taking its own wheel for Mars drives | Space

NASA's Perseverance rover is picking up the pace on Mars thanks to technology that helps the robot avoid running into trouble on its otherworldly drives.

That technology, called AutoNav, is a navigation system that maps terrain and plans routes without the rover needing to rely as heavily on guidance from Earth.

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Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2021-07-03T12:00:11 00:00
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On its first try, China's Zhurong rover hit a Mars milestone that took NASA decades | Space

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights .

Rebecca Allen , Swinburne Space Office Project Coordinator | Manager Swinburne Astronomy Productions, Swinburne University of Technology

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Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2021-07-01T11:14:16 00:00
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NASA's Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover 'Takes the Wheel' – NASA's Mars Exploration Program

The agency’s newest rover is trekking across the Martian landscape using a newly enhanced auto-navigation system.

But increasingly, the rover will take charge of the drive by itself, using a powerful auto-navigation system.

“We have a capability called ‘thinking while driving,’” said Vandi Verma, a senior engineer, rover planner, and driver at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “The rover is thinking about the autonomous drive while its wheels are turning.

Publisher: NASA's Mars Exploration Program
Date: 2021-07-01 19:27:58 UTC
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'Lakes' under Mars' south pole: A muddy picture?

In a new paper published in the American Geophysical Union's Geophysical Research Letters , lead author and graduate student Aditya Khuller of Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration with Jeffrey Plaut of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), describe finding dozens

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Mars methane mystery may be starting to clear up | Space

Since landing inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater in 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover has repeatedly detected methane — a background level of less than 0.5 parts per billion (ppb) molecules of air, with some puzzling surges up to 20 ppb.

Those measurements, made with the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) instrument in Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) chemistry lab, are intriguing to astrobiologists, because methane is a possible biosignature gas .

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Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2021-07-01T11:10:50 00:00
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5 Stories: A selfie from China's Mars rover, new research on how to reverse gray hair and other

PBS NewsHour's "5 STORIES" serves up the most interesting stories from around the world that you may have missed.

New footage released this week gives a glimpse of what China's Zhurong rover has been up to on Mars.

Publisher: PBS NewsHour
Date: 2021-07-02T14:45:49-04:00
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Sols 3167-3169: Holiday, Soliday, and Preparing To Drill! – NASA's Mars Exploration Program

On Sol 3165 Curiosity carried out a short bump to better position the rover for drilling. The bump went well and we were excited to dive straight into planning today. This plan will cover four days on Earth to account for the Independence Day holiday in the U.S.

The plan starts by taking a 360-degree Mastcam mosaic, which will be helpful for documenting this location, identifying future targets, and looking for changes during the course of the drill campaign.

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Author: Lauren Edgar
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Amazing New Images Show Auroras on Mars

A probe sent by the United Arab Emirates to study the Martian atmosphere has caught an exceedingly elusive event on camera, Space.com reports : a nightside aurora on Mars.

Before the Hope orbiter's formal science mission even began, one of its scientific instruments caught the aurora, which is a notoriously fleeting phenomenon that has proved to be very difficult to study.

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‘Blackhole’ case: High Court sets aside subpoena on Soon Koh to testify as witness

KUCHING (July 3): The High Court here has set aside DAP Sarawak chairman Chong Chieng Jen's subpoena on former state's second finance minister Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh to testify as witness in the 'Blackhole' case, as the evidence would have been irrelevant to what has been pleaded by the litigants

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Chong to call Soon Koh to testify in ‘blackhole’ case

KUCHING (July 2): State DAP chairman Chong Chieng Jen who is representing himself as lawyer in the ‘blackhole’ case said he would call former Second Finance Minister Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh to testify as a witness.

Chong, the Stampin MP and Kota Sentosa assemblyman, in a press statement yesterday said he was left with no choice but to subpoena Wong since the plaintiffs – the state government and State Financial Authority (SFA) – and CMS Berhad had managed to strike out Chong’s subpoena on Public Works

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Researchers confirm the detection of a collision between a black hole and a neutron star -
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Date: 2021-06-30T09:52:07 00:00
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The Bear Is Back? Russia's Return to Southeast Asia – The Diplomat

Russian President Vladimir Putin with Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong at the Russia-ASEAN Summit, Nov. 14, 2018.

After a long absence of nearly 30 years, Russia is more involved in Southeast Asia than it has been since the Cold War ended. While the punditry is obsessed with China's influence in the region, it's worth reviewing recent Russian activities.

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Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Weapon Tier List | Game Rant

Insomniac Games has built a reputation for creating some of the most outrageous weapons in all of gaming. Therefore, it shouldn't come as a surprise to see that the studio has gone all out with the PS5 exclusive, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart .

Featuring a host of 22 different weapons, each contributes to a unique roster that's unlike any other arsenal found in any other franchise. Not all of the guns in Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart are instant Hall of Famers, though, as some stand out more than others.

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Date: 2021-07-02T21:18:32Z
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NASA Hubble Space Telescope Needs Riskier Fix As Safe Mode Issue Could Last Longer Than Expected
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Publisher: Tech Times
Date: 2021-07-01T13:28:11-04:00
Author: Griffin Davis
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NASA's NEO Hunting Space Telescope Could Search For Dangerous Asteroids and Other Hazardous
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Date: 2021-07-01T01:20:00-04:00
Author: Joseph Henry
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Crossrail 2 'ready to be restarted when time is right', London's mayor promises | News | Building

Sadiq Khan said he was confident the project will be built out at some point in the future. He added: "Given TfL's current financial position, there is no viable funding package for the scheme at this time and so I am not in a position to confirm when work on seeking consent can restart.

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Date: 2021-07-03 11:18:27.934
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Friday, July 2, 2021

Space miners may use rockets to harvest the moon's water ice (video) | Space

Three companies — Masten Space Systems, Lunar Outpost and Honeybee Robotics — are developing a new system that would use rockets to mine water ice on the moon .

Water ice is thought to be abundant in the moon's polar regions, especially on the permanently shadowed floors of some craters.

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Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2021-07-02T11:08:28 00:00
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July 2021 Astrology Includes Leo Season & A Full Buck Moon

We've officially entered the latter half of 2021, which makes it a great time to check in with yourself and set some positive intentions for next six months.

Last month, we bid adieu to spring's eclipse season, survived another Mercury retrograde period , and ushered in the summer — which made for a rocky but rousing cosmic journey.

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The July 2021 New Moon Will Affect These Zodiac Signs The Most

This energy will call on the collective to investigate our habitual patterns as they relate to our closest partnerships. More specifically, we could be challenged to take a long, hard look in the mirror and make amends with ourselves.

You're usually the first to indulge in luxury, Taurus, and this new moon will heighten your sense of self-care.

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S.Korea's Moon and North's Kim exchanged letters ahead of Biden summit -newspaper | 1330 & 101.5

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in exchanged letters exploring prospects for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ahead of his own meeting in May with U.S. President Joe Biden, the South's JoongAng Ilbo newspaper said on Friday.

Moon had hoped to use the meeting with Biden as a chance to revive stalled talks with Kim and urge Washington to handle the issue with more urgency.

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Every Sailor Moon Weapon, Ranked by Emotional Carnage

Moon Prism Power Syndication! Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal: The Movie joins Netflix this week, so in honor of what's shaping up to be a proper Sailor Moon summer , let's take a closer look at one of the most quintessential parts of the magical-girl genre: weaponry.

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Publisher: Vulture
Date: 2021-07-02T20:00:03.277Z
Author: Devon Sherer
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Northern State University Josh Moon athletics Wisconsin Green Bay

Northern State University Director of Athletics Josh Moon is a finalist for the same job at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

"In his 10 years at Northern State University, Josh Moon has done a tremendous job as Athletic Director, and his skills and experience make him an excellent choice as a finalist for the position at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

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Author: Scott Waltman
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Smallest, densest white dwarf ever discovered packs the sun's mass into a moon-size stellar

Astronomers may have discovered the smallest and heaviest white dwarf star ever seen, a smoldering ember about the size of our moon but 450,000 times more massive than Earth, a new study finds.

White dwarfs are usually about the size of Earth and are the cool, dim cores of dead stars that are left behind after average-size stars have exhausted their fuel and shed their outer layers. Our sun will one day become a white dwarf, as will about 97% of all stars.

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Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2021-07-01T19:22:15 00:00
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Under a Strawberry Moon - Farmville | Farmville

The area witnessed a Strawberry Moon as the first full moon of the summer and the last supermoon of 2021. This photo submitted by Nancy Clayton Moorefield of the moon over an American flag on Lake Gaston reminds us that the Fourth of July weekend is coming up as well.

Construction has begun in the area where Longwood's Joan Perry Brock Center will soon rise. The new 3,000-seat arena for... read more

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Date: 2021-07-01T08:53:26 00:00
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