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• Juice minisite

  | Tue, 05 Apr 2022 10:12:00 +0200
  

  Juice: Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer

  Juice: Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer

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• Webb detects extremely small main-belt asteroid

  | Mon, 06 Feb 2023 17:00:00 +0100
  

  A previously unknown 100–200-metre asteroid — roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum — has been detected by an international team of European astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Their project used data from the calibration of the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), in which the team serendipitously detected an interloping asteroid. The object is likely the smallest observed to date by Webb and may be an example of an object measuring under 1 kilometer in length within the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. More observations are needed to better characterize this object’s nature and properties.

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• Scientists created a weird new type of ice that is almost exactly as dense as water

  | Mon, 06 Feb 2023 21:00:40 +0000
  

  Researchers have created a never-before-seen form of ice with a disorganized structure and a density almost exactly that of liquid water.
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• SpaceX's 1st Falcon Heavy rocket launched Elon Musk's Tesla into space 5 years ago

  | Mon, 06 Feb 2023 20:00:24 +0000
  

  Five years ago today (Feb. 6), SpaceX's brawny Falcon Heavy rocket left Earth for the first time ever, sending a car into orbit around the sun.
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• Full Snow Moon, the smallest 'micromoon' of 2023, dazzles winter stargazers

  | Mon, 06 Feb 2023 20:00:04 +0000
  

  Stargazers across the world, as well as celebrants of China's Lantern Festival, hailed the arrival of the full snow moon in pictures.
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• Turkey earthquake prompts United Nations to activate emergency satellite mapping

  | Mon, 06 Feb 2023 19:41:53 +0000
  

  The United Nations Satellite Centre has activated its emergency mapping service following a devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria to provide imagery that aids in disaster relief.
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