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Lunar Oasis: ESA Plans a Moon Base for Long-Term Science

Friday SpaceTime 20261030 Series 29 Episode 130 Europe’s plans for an OASIS on the Moon The European Space Agency is looking at developing its own moon base facility that would supply energy, communications, data handling and logistics on the lunar surface. Should you move to a n ...  Show more

Milky Way's Black Hole Secrets, Solar Flare Spectacles, and Mars Rover Discoveries

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 53 *Milky Way's mysterious black hole gas clouds finally explained Astronomers have discovered a massive binary star system near Sagittarius A* the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy.. *Two massive solar flares explode out fr ...  Show more

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