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SAMSUNG 170W 2.1ch Soundbar with Wireless Subwoofer

Samsung soundbar and subwoofer down to just $99 for Cyber Monday

One area you shouldn't overlook when building a home theater is audio, and we can help with that, with this Cyber Monday soundbar deal.
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This Roku Ultra Cyber Monday deal brings a 15% discount today

Looking for a Roku Ultra Cyber Monday deal? Then we have just the thing for you -- a deal to save $15 on a Roku Ultra streaming box.
A woman working out wearing Powerbeats Pros.

Save $100 on the Powerbeats Pro earbuds with this Cyber Monday deal

For wireless earbuds that are perfect workout companions, you should avail Amazon's Powerbeats Pro Cyber Monday deal, which brings their price down by $100.
Roku Streambar Pro.

This Roku soundbar Black Friday deal brings a $50 price cut

Why choose between a soundbar and a streaming box when you could have both with this Roku Soundbar Black Friday deal?
iPhone 11 Pro.

Best gifts for iPhone lovers

With the holiday season approaching, if you know someone who is wild about their iPhone, we have suggestions for a selection of gift accessories and extras.
Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system.

How to watch NASA launch its DART anti-asteroid spacecraft tonight

NASA is about to launch a spacecraft with a daring mission: To crash into an asteroid to test our planetary defense options. Here's how to watch the launch.
The Prawn Nebula is a massive stellar nursery located in the constellation Scorpius, about 6,000 light years from Earth. Though the nebula stretches 250 light-years and covers a space four times the size of the full moon, it emits light primarily in wavelengths the human eye cannot detect, making it extremely faint to earthbound viewers. Hubble’s gaze, however, shows a small section of the nebula here in both visible and invisible infrared light, capturing dazzling detail of the nebula’s structure, including bright areas of glowing gas.

Hubble captures an image of the stunning star-forming Prawn Nebula

When you look to the stars, you might expect to see a planet, a star, or even the ISS, but this week's Hubble image shows something rather unexpected: A Prawn.
Artist's impression of ESA's Solar Orbiter

Solar Orbiter to perform its riskiest flyby before heading to the sun

This week, the Solar Orbiter will perform its riskiest flyby, dipping through the ring of space debris that surrounds Earth before whipping away toward the sun.
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Hellishly hot planet orbits so close to its star that a year lasts a few days

A group of astronomers from the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, India has discovered a scorching new exoplanet where a year lasts just a few days.
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, to take this selfie at the “Quela” drilling location in the “Murray Buttes” area on lower Mount Sharp between Sept. 17 and 18, 2016.

Curiosity investigates how to keep Mars explorers safe from radiation

NASA's Curiosity rover is armed with a radiation detector and is performing experiments into how to protect astronauts from dangerous radiation on Mars.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has completed its annual grand tour of the outer Solar System for 2021. This is the realm of the giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — extending as far as 30 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. Unlike the rocky terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars that huddle close to the Sun’s warmth, these far-flung worlds are mostly composed of chilly gaseous soups of hydrogen, helium, ammonia, and methane around a packed, intensely hot, compact core. Note: The planets are not shown to scale in this image.

Go on a ‘Grand Tour’ of the outer solar system with these Hubble images

Each year Hubble snaps images of the outer planets of our solar system -- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune -- to see how they are changing over time.
The fourth launch by rocket startup Astra on Saturday, November 20 succeeded in making it to orbit for the first time.

Rocket startup Astra makes it to orbit on 4th attempt

The rocket startup Astra has finally made it to orbit with its Rocket 3, successfully reaching orbit on its fourth attempt.
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter pictured arriving at the International Space Station on Aug. 12, 2021. Cygnus will depart from the space station on Nov. 20, 2021.

Why NASA is dropping three probes through Earth’s atmosphere today

A supply craft returning from the ISS today will perform one final scientific investigation using a set of probes to collect data on heat shielding.
The Hubble Space Telescope is currently in safe mode once again after an instrument issue.

Hubble engineers have a plan to get instruments running again following error

Engineers are working toward fixing the Hubble Space Telescope, which was put into safe mode following an error last month.
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See Ingenuity hovering over the surface of Mars as captured by Perseverance

A new video from NASA shows the plucky little Mars helicopter Ingenuity in action, as captured by the Perseverance rover.
Illustration of TIC 172900988b, a planet orbiting two stars.

Astronomers use new method to discover planet orbiting two stars

Astronomers have discovered an unusual planet which orbits two stars with a new detection technique using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite telescope.
The Snowman Nebula is an emission nebula that resides in the constellation Puppis in the southern sky, about 6,000 light-years away from Earth. Emission nebulae are diffuse clouds of gas that have become so charged by the energy of nearby massive stars that they glow with their own light. The radiation from these massive stars strips electrons from the nebula’s hydrogen atoms in a process called ionization. As the energized electrons revert from their higher-energy state to a lower-energy state, they emit energy in the form of light, causing the nebula’s gas to glow.

Hubble gets in the festive mood with an image of the Snowman Nebula

With the holidays approaching, the Hubble Space Telescope is getting into the festive mood with this week's image of the Snowman Nebula.
The Hubble Space Telescope is currently in safe mode once again after an instrument issue.

Hubble turns on one instrument, others remain in safe mode

Engineers at NASA are continuing work to fix the troubled Hubble Space Telescope, which is experiencing problems for the second time this year.
This artist’s impression shows a compact black hole 11 times as massive as the Sun and the five-solar-mass star orbiting it. The two objects are located in NGC 1850, a cluster of thousands of stars roughly 160 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a Milky Way neighbour. The distortion of the star’s shape is due to the strong gravitational force exerted by the black hole.

Small, sneaky black hole discovered outside our galaxy using new method

A new detection method has been used to discover a small black hole outside the Milky Way, paving the way for discovery of hidden black holes within our galaxy.
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NASA video shows you what it’s like to plunge through Venus’ atmosphere

NASA has shown what the upcoming DAVINCI mission to Venus will be facing with the release of a video visualization of the probe plunging through the atmosphere.
Cleopatra’s Eye, or NGC 1535, is a planetary nebula in the constellation Eridanus. This nebula has an unusual structure that is similar to the better-known NGC 2392, with an outer region and a brighter inner center.

Gaze into the Cleopatra’s Eye nebula, captured by Hubble

A Hubble image recently released by NASA shows a striking blue planetary nebula located in the constellation of Eridanus.
Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system.

NASA gears up to launch a spacecraft that will crash into an asteroid

Most space missions don't intend to crash their spacecraft. But that's just what NASA has in mind for its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission.
The James Webb Space Telescope is unboxed in the cleanroom at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

See the mighty James Webb Space Telescope being unboxed in a cleanroom

A video from the European Space Agency (ESA) shows the James Webb Space Telescope being unboxed from its shipping container and unpacked ahead of its launch.
Illustration of Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander with a depiction of NASA’s Polar Resources Ice-Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) attached to the spacecraft on the surface of the Moon.

NASA is sending a lander to drill for ice on the moon’s south pole

NASA has chosen the landing site for a new lunar explorer. A robotic lander will be sent to the moon's south pole in an area near to the Shackleton crater.
NASA SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), left, Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency), and Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough of NASA participate in the Space Olympics onboard the International Space Station.

How to watch Crew-2 return to Earth from the ISS on Monday

Four astronauts will be returning from the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on Monday, and we've got details on how to watch.
N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of stars of different ages. One of its most distinctive features, however, is the dark, starry gap called a “superbubble,” visible in this Hubble Space Telescope image in the upper central region.

Hubble spots a ‘superbubble’ in a beautiful emission nebula

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of the beautiful and mysterious nebula N44, which has a hole hundreds of light-years wide in its center.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image using its navigation camera. This camera is mounted in the helicopter's fuselage and pointed directly downward to track the ground during flight. This image was acquired on Oct. 24, 2021 (Sol 241 of the Perseverance rover mission) at the local mean solar time of 12:34:15.

Mars helicopter Ingenuity is reuniting with Perseverance rover

Mars helicopter Ingenuity is gearing up for its 15th flight this weekend, beginning a journey that will take it back to its landing location.
Hubble's view of dazzling globular cluster NGC 6397

Astronomers want to build an epic $11B space telescope to replace Hubble

It's the most exciting time of year for astronomers, with the release of the Astro2020 report which lays out plans for the next decade of astronomy.
The Hubble Space Telescope is currently in safe mode once again after an instrument issue.

Hubble Space Telescope is in trouble again, for the second time this year

The beloved Space Telescope has experienced an issue which caused it to switch to safe mode, meaning its science instruments are not currently collecting data.
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Researchers come up with method for cleaning up space debris using magnets

Researchers have found a way to maneuver metallic, non-magnetic pieces of debris by using spinning magnets.
NASA Astronaut Megan McArthur dons a Microsoft HoloLens, a mixed reality (or augmented reality) headset, which allows her to see both the spacearound her as well as digital displays in her field of view.

Space Station astronauts use AR headset to upgrade particle physics hardware

ISS Astronaut Megan McArthur used a HoloLens headset to perform a hardware replacement on a highly complex piece of equipment: The station's Cold Atom Lab.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope celebrates Halloween this year with a striking observation of the carbon star CW Leonis, which resembles a baleful orange eye glaring from behind a shroud of smoke.

Hubble captures creepy carbon star CW Leonis peering out from a screen of smoke

To celebrate Halloween, this week's image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the star CW Leonis, a creepy eye gazing out from a screen of smoke.
Jupiter's banded appearance is created by the cloud-forming weather layer. This composite image shows views of Jupiter in infrared and visible light taken by the Gemini North telescope and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft peers deep into the atmosphere of Jupiter

Researchers using NASA's Juno probe have peered beneath Jupiter's cloud tops to create the most detailed 3D understanding of its atmosphere to date.
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope imaged this cloud of gas and dust. The colors represent different wavelengths of infrared light and can reveal such features as places where radiation from stars had heated the surrounding material. Any resemblance to Godzilla is purely imaginary.

Spitzer Space Telescope spots ‘rampaging space monster’

Just in time for Halloween, NASA astronomers have spotted an outline in the shape of Godzilla, seen in an image from the Spitzer Space Telescope.