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An Amateur Astronomer Seemingly Spotted a New Asteroid. It Turned Out to Be a Tesla in Space
The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...
New York Post29d
ISS astronauts celebrate New Year’s 16 times: ‘We have our own ball, but it doesn’t drop’
NASA Despite the ISS’s speedy 90-minute orbit around the Earth — as it travels ... Pettit pulled out an orange ball and let it go in the weightlessness of space. “We have our own ball, ...
New Scientist9d
Weird icy balls in space could be a totally new kind of star
In 2021, Takashi Shimonishi at Niigata University in Japan and his colleagues spotted what appeared to be two icy balls of gas in roughly the same patch of sky, but separated by a large enough ...
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Earth and Space
It includes all of space, and all the matter and energy ... than a star and is either a small ball of rock e.g., the Earth or a large ball of gas e.g. Jupiter An easy mnemonic to remember the ...