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	Science Daily update ⋅ December 22, 2020
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	CNN 2020 is when private spaceflight just got started. In 2021 it will shoot for the stars CNN Austin, Texas (CNN Business) Despite the pandemic, 2020 was a landmark year for the commercial space industry. SpaceX became the first company ever to send humans to space aboard a privately owned spacecraft. The US government continued to work ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Watch the winter solstice 'Great Conjunction' of Jupiter and Saturn with these webcasts Space.com Jupiter and Saturn will align in the night sky today (Dec. 21) in an event astronomers call the "great conjunction," and you can watch it online with webcasts from The Virtual Telescope Project, Slooh and more. Tonight's great conjunction — also nicknamed the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com The Ursid meteor shower of 2020 is peaking now! Here's what to expect. Space.com We are only now coming down from the peak of the year for meteor enthusiasts: the Geminid meteor shower which reached a prolific maximum of 60 to 120 meteors per hour on the night of Dec. 13-14. But there is still one more meteor shower to consider ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com How to photograph the winter solstice 'great conjunction' of Jupiter and Saturn tonight Space.com Tonight, Jupiter and Saturn will look so close together in the night sky that they will appear as one bright "star." The pair come to a close conjunction once every 20 years, but tonight, the planets will be the closest they have been in the night sky in nearly 800 ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News SLS: Crucial test for Nasa's 'mega-rocket' BBC News image captionThe orange core stage was filled with more than 700,000 gallons of rocket propellant. The core of a giant Nasa rocket that will return astronauts to the Moon has undergone a crucial test. For the first time, engineers fully loaded a core stage of the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Scientists think they've spotted the farthest galaxy in the universe Space.com Astronomers have peered out into the vast expanse and spotted what they think is the farthest (and oldest) galaxy ever observed. The galaxy GN-z11 might not have a flashy name, but it appears to be the most distant and oldest galaxy ever detected, scientists ... Flag as irrelevant
	IndieWire A New Space Race Begins: Russia Aims to Beat Tom Cruise by Sending an Actor to Space in 2021 IndieWire One of the biggest films to be announced in 2020 was Tom Cruise and Doug Liman's $200 million space movie that will become the first Hollywood narrative feature to film scenes in space. The project will also make Cruise the first actor to travel to the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Skyrmions proposed as the basis for a completely new computer architecture Phys.Org The skyrmions are created in an ultra-high vacuum deposition chamber: Using sputter deposition technology, a team of Empa researchers has succeeded in producing distinguishable skyrmions within finely tuned, ultra-thin metal layers at room temperature. Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Major changes coming over the horizon for the global space industry Phys.Org The attention of the world has recently been captured by the return of Japan's Hayabusa-2 asteroid mission, the activities of Elon Musk's SpaceX venture, and China's Chang'e 5 moon landing, yet a quiet revolution is taking place in the global space industry. Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Red Bull skydivers recreate mysterious Marfa lights in dazzling video for winter solstice 2020 Space.com The 44-year-old Chmelecki jumped at an altitude of 15,000 feet (4.5 km) for a four-minute fall with other skydivers, lighting the sky with pyrotechnics carefully strapped to their boots. Flag as irrelevant
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