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A new field of tektites in Brazil

Tektites are natural glasses formed by the high-energy impact of large meteorites against Earth’s surface. Recently, a team of researchers found a new strewn field of them in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Because of the location of the find, the tektites have been named geraisites. The discovery was described in an article published in the


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Feb. 24, 1968: Discovery of pulsars is announced

In July 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a “bit of scruff” in the radio data she was receiving at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. Together with her Ph.D. advisor Antony Hewish, she zeroed in and followed up on the strange signal. On Feb. 24, 1968, the pair (together with three additional co-authors) published in the


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The Sky Today on Tuesday, February 24: Chase the Coma galaxy cluster

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column.  February 23: The Moon occults some Pleiads First Quarter Moon occurs at 7:28 A.M. EST. The Moon then reaches perigee, the closest point to Earth in its orbit, at 6:14 P.M. EST. At that time, our satellite will be 229,991 miles (370,135


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Rocket Lab to launch Australian scramjet on first hypersonic flight

Mission highlight: ‘That’s Not A Knife’ Rocket Lab is targeting Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 3:00 p.m. EST for the launch of its HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) rocket from Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, according to Next Spaceflight.  The suborbital mission, dubbed “That’s Not A Knife,” will carry DART AE


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Artemis 2 launch delayed again

In the latest delay for the Artemis 2 mission, NASA announced on Saturday that it will roll the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) as soon as Feb. 24, pushing the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 to April at the earliest. Just a day


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