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Nine Days in Deep Space End Tomorrow | Plus NASA's Unexpected Moon Finding
Astronomy Daily: Space News UpdatesApril 09, 202600:15:42

Nine Days in Deep Space End Tomorrow | Plus NASA's Unexpected Moon Finding

Day Nine of Artemis II and the crew is almost home. We have the full splashdown countdown — heat shield, parachutes, USS John P. Murtha, weather window and all. Plus the science story nobody saw coming: micrometeorite impact flashes spotted by the crew during the lunar flyby, met with literal screams of delight from NASA scientists.
Also today: a brand new class of stars has been discovered — meet Gandalf and Moon-Sized, two bizarre white dwarf merger remnants that have just broken the stellar rulebook. Mars's surface was probably never going to support life. Four planets are parading through April skies. And we end with the story of four astronauts taking selfies from 252,000 miles away on their iPhones.
CHAPTERS
• 00:00 — Cold Open
• 01:30 — Artemis II: One Sleep to Splashdown
• 05:00 — Micrometeorite Bombshell: Screams of Delight
• 08:30 — New Class of Stars: Gandalf & Moon-Sized
• 12:00 — Mars Was Never Going to Be Home
• 15:00 — Planet Parade: 4 Planets in April Skies
• 17:30 — Shot on iPhone, 252,000 Miles Away
• 20:30 — Outro
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