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The launch wasn't a secret - it launched from the Cape on an Atlas V-501 on May 17th 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-299.
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Watch Live: NASA's Artemis moon rocket counts down to launch
The space agency has been trying for months to send its giant moon rocket on its first test flight. The goal is to send a crew capsule, with no astronauts on board, around the moon and back.
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TIL the term "flying saucer" was never meant to be a description of a UFO's appearance by the person who first used "saucer" to describe UFOs.
In 1947, the man who described a UFOs with the word "saucer" never meant that what he saw looked like a flying saucer. When a reporter asked him to describe how the UFOs moved, he stated they "flew erratic, like a saucer if you skip it across the water". The reporter used the term "flying saucer", and from that point on, people began regularly describing UFOs as "flying saucers".
In 1947, the man who described a UFOs with the word "saucer" never meant that what he saw looked like a flying saucer. When a reporter asked him to describe how the UFOs moved, he stated they "flew erratic, like a saucer if you skip it across the water". The reporter used the term "flying saucer", and from that point on, people began regularly describing UFOs as "flying saucers".
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Fifty years later, remastered images reveal Apollo 17 in stunning clarity
"Come toward me, baby! Looks like it’s moving... Don’t run over me!"
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Super interesting how the cloud is nearly exactly the same size/shape as the lake under it. It makes perfect sense, but it's still interesting.
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Jupiter's moon count jumps to 92, most in solar system
Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a record-breaking 92. That's more than any other planet in our solar system. Saturn, the one-time leader, comes in a close second with 83 confirmed moons. The Jupiter moons were added recently to a list kept by...
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in July 2017, during a thunderstorm, a cloud camera at the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii took a stunning photo of two types of lightning.
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if you want to read a bit more:
Upper-atmospheric lightning - Wikipedia
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We are all going to die..., eventually. 
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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a pretty neat planetary viewing!
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World’s first artificial meteor shower getting ready for launch
The celestial light show was due to take place in 2020 but a malfunction in one of the satellites meant it had to be delayed.