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Artemis 2 mission launches four astronauts toward Moon
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Four astronauts are heading to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. The crew launched at 18:35 local time from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard the Orion capsule atop the Space Launch System. The mission builds on Artemis 1 and sets milestones for women and non-white astronauts.
The Entertainment Software Association released its annual Essential Facts survey on June 3, showing that 67 percent of Americans play video games. Notably, 32 percent of those aged 81 to 90 participate weekly.
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A vast valley on Mars offers new evidence that the planet once held large bodies of water. Shalbatana Vallis stretches about 1,300 kilometers near the equator and shows signs of powerful groundwater floods from billions of years ago.
Astronomers have revealed that the famous Pleiades star cluster, known as the 'Seven Sisters,' is merely the core of a much larger stellar complex containing thousands of related stars. Using data from NASA's TESS and ESA's Gaia telescopes, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill expanded the cluster's known size by a factor of 20. This finding offers new insights into star formation and the Milky Way's structure.
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The Sentinel-1D earth observation satellite launched from the spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. It lifted off shortly after 10 p.m. aboard an Ariane 6 rocket and will replace an older Sentinel in the Copernicus program. The launch was broadcast from ESA's control center in Darmstadt.