NASA
NASA reminds us that the equinox is when the Sun crosses the equator, day and night aren't exactly equal, and your hemisphere determines whether you're celebrating or complaining.
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NASA's latest APOD features an analemma - a year-long figure-8 of the Sun - over Scotland's Callanish Stones, proving the Sun is just as indecisive as the rest of us.
NASA
NASA's XRISM observatory watched a neutron star steal a giant blue star's wind and turn it into X-ray flares, proving even cosmic objects can't resist a free meal.
The Verge
NASA, UCSD, and the National Weather Service built an AI that uses earthquake satellites to predict flash floods - because apparently we needed a side hustle for seismology.
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spots a fresh 728-foot-wide crater on the Moon, the largest newly formed one ever found, because even the Moon needs a little Botox.
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While the rest of North America swelters, Nunavut's tundra is already putting on its autumn show - and NASA's Landsat 9 caught the whole thing on camera.
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Djibouti signs the Artemis Accords, becoming the 72nd country to agree that space should probably have some rules.
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NASA adds Relativity Space's Terran R to its launch services contract, expanding its arsenal of rockets for future missions.
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Anak Krakatau throws a 24-hour hissy fit, grounding nearly 3,000 flights and dusting Jakarta with ash - because who needs air travel when you have volcanic theatrics?
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NASA confirms Vasquez Rocks are still pretty, still tilting at 50 degrees, and still the go-to backdrop for alien worlds.
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Satellite images show Mount Michael's persistent lava lake glowing through the Antarctic winter, because even volcanoes can't resist a little attention.
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NASA's APOD shows the Pelican Nebula in glorious, 25-hour-exposure detail, but warns that in a few million years, it will look like something else entirely. Change is the only constant, even in space.
ScienceDaily
Puerto Rico went from zero drought to 44% extreme in three months, prompting state and federal emergencies, water rationing, and a very busy NASA.
Ars Technica
Rockets are blowing up, not launching, or finally launching on time - plus a NASA telescope that got to space without drama.
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NASA's live coverage of a Russian cargo ship delivering three tons of supplies to the ISS - because even astronauts need their space snacks.
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Curiosity finds new kinds of holes in the ground, gets distracted by shiny rocks, and dodges a dust storm that couldn't commit.
ScienceDaily
September's night sky features a dazzling Venus, a Harvest Moon with Saturn and Neptune, the equinox, and the Moon as a guide to the Milky Way's center - plus a teapot-shaped asterism.
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NASA's NCAS program gives community college students a shot at aerospace careers - one former bartender and a mom are already proof it works.
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Saturn's south pole has grown a new 10-sided atmospheric wave, because one giant polygon wasn't enough - now scientists get to watch it develop in real time.
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A giant iceberg from Greenland's Petermann Glacier survives a scrape with Joe Island, proving that even glaciers have better luck than your last Tinder date.
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