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How AI fixed the James Webb Space Telescope's blurry vision

Telescope has been suffering from blurry vision. But a team of Australian researchers created an AI algorithm that fixes the problem — a major relief for the scientific community, which hopes to use the instrument to search for exoplanets around stars in our Milky Way galaxy. The affected instrument is the Aperture Masking Interferometer (API), designed and built by a team of astronomers led by…
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Europe's powerful Ariane 6 rocket launches Sentinel-1D Earth-observation satellite to orbit (video)

Europe’s Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket took to the skies for the fourth time ever today (Nov. 4). An Ariane 6 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana today at 4:02 p.m. EST (2102 GMT; 6:02 p.m. local time in Kourou), carrying the Sentinel-1D Earth-observation satellite to low Earth orbit (LEO). The Ariane 6 deployed Sentinel-1D about 33.5 minutes after liftoff today as…
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Don't miss the biggest full moon of the year rise on Nov. 5 — Here's what to expect

The biggest full moon of 2025, a so-called supermoon, will rise on Wednesday, Nov. 5, lighting up the night sky with its dramatic glow. At 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 GMT), the moon will reach its closest point to the Earth for the year, known as perigee, at a distance of 221,726 miles (356,833 kilometers). Nine hours and 11 minutes prior to that, the moon will officially turn full. It will, in fact, be…
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Halloween stargazing 2025: The moon and Saturn light the night sky for trick-or-treaters

Based on the latest national forecast, skies will be mainly clear on Halloween night across about three-quarters of the contiguous (48) United States, as costumed kids arrive at the door looking for candy or some other Halloween treat. Temperatures will be mostly in the chilly 40’s across the northern tier states, 50’s for the central states and balmy 60’s across the south.
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