The laser system provides real-time positional data on the huge cloud of space debris above our heads in low Earth orbit.

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AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph a plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

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The supernova explosion, designated as SN 2018gv, is found in the spiral galaxy NGC 2525. According to NASA, Hubble began ...

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