India's Chandrayaan-3 is still on track for an Aug 23 landing.
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Just now: "There are no countries in Africa that start with the letter "K".
The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" sound."
I've been working remotely for 10 years, and I love it. Online interaction with my co-workers is good enough for me.
If successful, India will be the fourth country to land on the Moon besides the US, the USSR, and China.
(China has had rovers on the Moon since 2013)
Pavel Chekhov's gun?
"It could be a close shave, because 70% of our scenarios predict that the world will exceed the 1.5°C mark in the next five years."
The Euclid telescope, just launched today, will be able to observe galaxies out to 10 billion light-years. Here's the largest map I could find (1 billion light years) that includes the Milky Way, Laniakea, the Shapley supercluster, the Perseus–Pisces supercluster, and the South Pole Wall.
https://irfu.cea.fr/Projets/COAST/southpolewall-graphics.html
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Two big announcements about neutrinos and gravitational waves on the same day
(media.kbin.social)
Hello to the SLIM moon mission and the Aditya solar mission.
OSIRIS-REx delivered its asteroid sample and has been re-tasked as OSIRIS-APEx to study the asteroid Apophis.
(Credit Olaf Frohn)