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A 36-year sweep of orbital debris has found the solar threshold where Earth's upper atmosphere starts pulling space junk down faster, just as mega-constellations crowd low orbit
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Michael Collins, dubbed by the press "the loneliest man in history" while orbiting the far side of the Moon for roughly forty-seven minutes at a time, gently corrected the description " he said he felt isolated, but never lonely
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In 1995, NASA's Galileo spacecraft sent a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere that kept transmitting for just 58 minutes as it fell, returning the first direct readings from inside the giant planet before rising heat and pressure silenced it for good
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When a Soviet rover went silent on the Moon in 1971, scientists assumed it was gone for good " but nearly forty years later, the reflector strapped to its back answered a laser pulse from Earth as if no time had passed at all
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The Arecibo message " humanity's most famous deliberate radio message to another civilization " was aimed at a star cluster about 25, 000 light-years away in 1974, meaning even an immediate reply would not reach Earth until around 52, 000 CE
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Voyager 1s famous Pale Blue Dot photograph was nearly never taken " Carl Sagan pushed NASA to turn the camera back toward Earth after the planetary mission was over, while engineers worried the Suns glare could damage the optics
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SPHEREx more than doubled the confirmed population of heavily reddened quasars at cosmic noon " and the new sample may catch supermassive black holes as they begin clearing the dust around them
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Evidence of ancient life has just been found buried inside an asteroid crater " and the discovery suggests the warm lakes created by major impacts may have been some of the original cradles of life on Earth
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Many astronauts describe a quiet realization when they look down at Earth from orbit " that the borders and political lines we treat as permanent are invisible from above
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Scientists think they may have found the remains of an entire galaxy that the Milky Way absorbed billions of years ago " 20 unusual stars hiding inside our own galactic disk, possibly the leftovers of a small galaxy our own home swallowed when it was still young
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