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There's a new PBS documentary coming out called Once Upon a Time in Space. It centers on the International Space Station and the astronauts and cosmonauts who have lived for months orbiting Earth. This article interviews the filmmaker James Bluemel, as well as astronaut Michael Foale about the doc and, in Foale's case, what it was like living on both the ISS and Mir. submitted by /u/TubeTalkMedia |
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A team of Chinese astronomers using the Very Large Array (NSF VLA) recently detected a rare transient event taking place in a dwarf galaxy 3.4 billion light-years from Earth. The event, known as AT2019ijn, consisted of an intermediate-mass black hole tearing apart a star, which appeared to reveal the afterglow of a powerful jet. It…