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For 21 years, millions of volunteers let UC Berkeley use their home computers to search the sky for alien signals, producing 12 billion detections — after a decade of filtering, scientists narrowed them to roughly 100 targets worth a second look.
Space shuttle Endeavour weighed roughly 170,000 pounds, yet its final 12-mile journey through Los Angeles took 68 hours at no more than 2 mph—crews repeatedly stopped to trim trees and squeeze its 78-foot wingspan past obstacles with inches to spare.
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launched today, nine months ahead of its official deadline after surviving three cancellation proposals and a fourth major funding threat — the observatory that nearly didn’t exist is now bound for an orbit 1 million miles from Earth.
In 1932, a Bell Labs engineer trying to track down a mysterious source of static disrupting transatlantic phone calls found a hiss that repeated every twenty-three hours and fifty-six minutes, the exact length of a sidereal day, and traced it to the center of the Milky Way, accidentally inventing radio astronomy
