After more than six months of long-distance troubleshooting—Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth, and any signal takes more than 22.5 hours to travel from our planet to the spacecraft—mission personnel have finally coaxed Voyager 1 to gather and send home data with all its remaining science instruments, according to a NASA statement.
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Nova: ‘New star’ will appear in the night sky after stellar explosion | CNN
The star system, located 3,000 light-years from Earth and typically too dim to be seen with the naked eye, is expected to reach a level of brightness similar to that of Polaris, or the North Star.
Rural hospitals are particularly vulnerable to ransomware, report finds | CyberScoop
The threat facing U.S. health care systems is no longer theoretical, with several important health care providers getting hit by ransomware attacks in recent months.