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New episode: 60 Million Stars Captured, Cosmic Fog Cleared, and Earth's Oldest Impact Crater Revealed - spacenutspodcast.com/podcast/astron… via @Beamly

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A: More than 60 million — captured in just 26 hours using Euclid's 600-megapixel visible-light camera.

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Q: How many stars are in Euclid's new image of the Milky Way's galactic bulge?

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DID YOU KNOW? — Hydrothermal Life Hydrothermal vents on Earth support entire ecosystems with no sunlight whatsoever — bacteria, tube worms, crabs and shrimp all powered by chemical energy. Of around 200 known impact craters on Earth, about 70 show evidence of hydrothermal systems. Only 8 show clear evidence of microbial colonisation — but Chicxulub's new 8-million-year timeline dramatically extends the window in which life could have established itself.

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DID YOU KNOW? — Euclid & Roman Euclid took just one day out of its six-year primary mission to photograph the Milky Way's heart — the only time it has ever paused its main cosmological survey. The image it captured covers exactly the same region of sky that NASA's Roman Space Telescope will repeatedly scan for exoplanets using gravitational microlensing. The two telescopes will work as partners across time.

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A: The oceanic pole of inaccessibility — the most remote spot on Earth, more than 2,600 km from the nearest land, in the South Pacific.

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Q: What is 'Point Nemo', the planned splashdown target for the ISS?

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DID YOU KNOW? — The ISS The International Space Station is the largest human-made structure ever assembled in orbit, weighing approximately 450,000 kilograms. It costs NASA nearly $3 billion USD per year to operate and maintain. When it re-enters Earth's atmosphere around 2030–31, it will be the largest spacecraft ever deliberately deorbited.

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New episode: How Impact Craters Could Have Reversed Venus’s Rotation—The Surprising Science - spacenutspodcast.com/podcast/space-… via @Beamly

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A: Nearly 200 kilometres (124 miles) in diameter — buried beneath the Gulf of Mexico off the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

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Q: How large is the Chicxulub crater left by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?

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DID YOU KNOW? — 3I/ATLAS 3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever confirmed passing through our solar system. The first was 'Oumuamua in 2017, the second was comet 2I/Borisov in 2019. JWST has now determined 3I/ATLAS likely formed 10–12 billion years ago — making it potentially the oldest object humanity has ever chemically characterised.

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Lithium — planets are rich in it; stars aren't. TOI-5882's unusual lithium spike placed it in the 98th percentile of similar stars.

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Q: What element gave scientists their key clue that star TOI-5882 devoured a planet?

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NASA's next great observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, has arrived at Kennedy Space Center! This massive telescope, nicknamed 'The Chariot', is now undergoing final preparations for its launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

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New episode: Ancient Comet Shatters Time Records, Mars' Life Signs Intensify, and the ISS Faces Controversial Farewell - spacenutspodcast.com/podcast/astron… via @Beamly

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China's mysterious Shenlong space plane has released an unknown object into orbit during its 4th mission. This latest release was detected by New Zealand's Kiwi Space Radar, adding to the mystery of Shenlong's previous deployments.

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NASA, Boeing committed to Starliner-1 launch despite unclear timeline – Spaceflight Now spaceflightnow.com/2026/06/23/nas…

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DID YOU KNOW: SpaceX's new Starfall capsule can carry up to 1,000 kilograms of cargo back from orbit — roughly 30 times more than the current generation of commercial reentry capsules like Varda's W-series vehicles. But Starfall has no onboard deorbit engine at all. Instead of firing thrusters to slow down, it relies entirely on the launch vehicle or an external kick stage to push it into a reentry trajectory. After that, cold-gas nitrogen thrusters and three parachutes take it the rest of the way down.