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Science & Discovery
A Galaxy's Beating Heart: Simulation Shows Its Central Star Cluster and Stellar Disk Grow Up Together
A new hydrodynamical simulation called SMUGGLE-Ring finds that a Milky Way-mass galaxy's nuclear star cluster and surrounding nuclear stellar disk are built by the same bar-driven gas inflow, not by separate, unrelated processes.
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Commercial
SpaceX Unveils $100 Billion 'Starbase Louisiana,' Aiming to Build the Biggest Launch Site on Earth
SpaceX and Louisiana officials announced a $100 billion Gulf Coast spaceport with ten launch pads and, per Elon Musk, more than 30 Starship flights a day once built out.
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Stargazing
Sunspot AR4513 Fires an M7 Flare as NOAA Posts a G2 Storm Watch Days Before the Lunar Eclipse
A sprawling, magnetically tangled sunspot let loose an M7 flare and a run of CMEs, prompting a G2 storm watch whose aurora timing may or may not line up with this week's partial lunar eclipse.
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Missions
TESS Spots a Four-Star System Where One Binary Eclipses the Other
TESS data reveal TIC 433545934, a compact four-star system where one close binary pair periodically eclipses the stars of its companion pair — the first confirmed system of its kind.
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NASA & Agencies
Trump to Award Artemis II Crew the Congressional Space Medal of Honor
Four astronauts who flew farther from Earth than any humans since Apollo will join a list of roughly 30 recipients that includes Neil Armstrong and Alan Shepard.
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Stargazing
Comet 220P/McNaught Erupts Again, Glowing Green Over Two Continents
A faint periodic comet has now blown up twice in 2026, brightening thousands-fold and turning into a binocular-visible green fuzzball that astronomers still can't fully explain.
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Missions
NASA's Fort Sumner Balloon Campaign Puts Rover Landing-Site Cameras to the Test
NASA's second Fort Sumner balloon flight of 2026 carried a real-time imaging camera to 126,000 feet, prototyping technology that could help future landers pick safer touchdown spots on the Moon and Mars.
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Science & Discovery
Why Black Holes Keep Shredding the Same Stars — and Why the Flares Keep Fading
A Syracuse-led study explains why some stars survive repeated brushes with a supermassive black hole while their flares dim each time: they were already spinning fast before capture.
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Military Space
Space Force Honor Guard Debuts Its First Original Ceremonial Uniform
Seven years after standing up, the Space Force Honor Guard has traded its borrowed Air Force dress for a uniform of its own, unveiled publicly at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington, D.C.
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Missions
China Scrubs Chang'e-7 Launch Hours Before Liftoff, Citing Storm and Sun Angles
China postponed the Chang'e-7 lunar south pole mission just hours before its Long March 5 was due to fly, blaming Tropical Storm Narra and a narrow sun-angle window over Shackleton Crater — with the next opportunity at least a month, possibly a year, away.
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Science & Discovery
JWST Rules Out a Thick Atmosphere on Habitable-Zone World TRAPPIST-1 f
Five clean JWST transits of TRAPPIST-1 f show no starspot contamination and rule out a thick hydrogen/helium atmosphere, sharpening the hunt for air on the seven-planet system's outer habitable-zone world.
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Stargazing
This Week's Sky: Venus Closes In on Spica as Jupiter Climbs the Dawn
From August 22-26, 2026, watch the waxing gibbous Moon slide past the Teapot and into Capricornus while Venus edges toward Spica and Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn stack up in the morning sky.
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