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Nasdaq Rally Amid Tech Frenzy: Markets Brush Off Shutdown Fears in Late September 2025

Nasdaq Rally Amid Tech Frenzy: Markets Brush Off Shutdown Fears in Late September 2025

Key Facts: Market Performance Overview On Monday Sept. 29, U.S. stocks closed solidly higher, with the Nasdaq Composite up ~0.48% to 22,591.15 and the S&P 500 +0.26% reuters.com reuters.com. Tech shares drove the rally: investors continued “to buy heavyweight technology stocks” reuters.com. The Dow Jones rose ~0.15% on the session reuters.com. Futures for Tuesday’s open were essentially flat, as traders awaited the government funding deadline and key data (Tuesday’s consumer confidence and JOLTS report) tipranks.com. Major Nasdaq stocks played a starring role. Nvidia shares led chip stocks, rising about 2% investopedia.com (continuing a recent record run on AI demand). Apple
30 September 2025
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Cosmic Showcase: What’s Up in the Sky on Sept 28–29, 2025

Cosmic Showcase: What’s Up in the Sky on Sept 28–29, 2025

Meteor Showers and Fireballs This weekend’s meteor activity will be modest. No major shower peaks on Sept 28–29. The Orionids (parent comet Halley) have just started but are weak – current rates are well under 1 meteor/hour and won’t peak until Oct. 23 amsmeteors.org. The only notable shower is the Southern Taurids (from comet 2P/Encke), active Sept 23–Nov 12 with a broad radiant. AMS predicts a Southern Taurid rate of about 3/hour around local midnight (the radiant in Pisces, best near 1 a.m.) amsmeteors.org. All other named showers (epsilon Geminids, sextantids, etc.) are producing <1/hr amsmeteors.org amsmeteors.org. Thus most meteors will be
28 September 2025
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Cosmic Sky Show: Northern Lights, Shooting Stars & Space Spectacles Dazzle Sept. 26–27, 2025

Cosmic Sky Show: Northern Lights, Shooting Stars & Space Spectacles Dazzle Sept. 26–27, 2025

Key Facts Space Weather Outlook: Auroras & Solar Storms After a geomagnetically active equinox week, Earth’s magnetosphere is settling down for now. A few days ago, skywatchers as far south as Alberta were treated to vibrant auroral shapes (one even looked like a green “shark’s fin” cutting through the stars) thanks to a high-speed solar wind stream spaceweather.com. As of Friday, Sept. 26, that solar wind has slackened, and NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center forecasts quiet geomagnetic conditions in the near term earthsky.org. Any auroras tonight will likely be confined to the high Arctic latitudes – think northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland,
26 September 2025
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Mars Life Clue, Deadly Heat & Tech Breakthroughs – Science News Roundup (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Mars Life Clue, Deadly Heat & Tech Breakthroughs – Science News Roundup (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Sources Medicine & Health: UC San Diego Health (press release via ScienceDaily) sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com; ScienceDaily (Sep 16) sciencedaily.com; SciTechDaily scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com.Space & Astronomy: Imperial College London (press release via ScienceDaily) sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com; Symmetry Magazine (Fermilab/SLAC) symmetrymagazine.org symmetrymagazine.org; Sci.News sci.news sci.news.Climate & Environment: The Guardian theguardian.com theguardian.com; UNC Chapel Hill (press release via SciTechDaily) scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com; Florida Atlantic University (press release via SciTechDaily) scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com.Physics: Symmetry Magazine symmetrymagazine.org symmetrymagazine.org; Sci.News sci.news.Technology: University of Florida (press release via SciTechDaily) scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com.Other: Sci.News sci.news sci.news; Sci.News sci.news.
17 September 2025
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Rare Meteor Shower, Auroras & Planetary Spectacles: Skywatch Alert (Sept 17–18, 2025)

Rare Meteor Shower, Auroras & Planetary Spectacles: Skywatch Alert (Sept 17–18, 2025)

Key Facts Below is your full skywatching guide for the nights of September 17–18, 2025, with details on each phenomenon and tips for viewing. Clear skies! Meteor Showers: Slow Shooting Stars of September Chi Cygnids – a Rare 5-Year Meteor Shower: The headline event is the chi Cygnid meteor shower, a newly confirmed minor shower that appears to produce enhanced activity roughly every five years earthsky.org foxweather.com. First noticed after an outburst in 2015, the Chi Cygnids have shown bumps in meteor counts in 2010, 2015, 2020, and now 2025 earthsky.org. NASA/SETI astronomer Peter Jenniskens and colleagues detected increased meteors
17 September 2025
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Rocket Launch Frenzy, Solar Surprises & Space Race Showdowns: 48 Hours of Space News (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Rocket Launch Frenzy, Solar Surprises & Space Race Showdowns: 48 Hours of Space News (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Rapid-Fire Rocket Launches and Satellite Deployments SpaceX’s Starlink blitz: SpaceX continued its high-frequency launch campaign, highlighting how routine orbital deployment has become. On Wednesday, Sept. 17, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into a polar low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California spaceflightnow.com. Liftoff occurred at 8:43 am PDT (15:43 UTC), and about eight minutes later the veteran booster (B1088 on its 10th flight) landed on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com. This “Starlink Group 17-12” mission was SpaceX’s 83rd Starlink launch of 2025, pushing the year’s Starlink satellite tally above 2,000 deployed so
17 September 2025
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Tech Shockwaves: Slimmest iPhone, TikTok’s Lifeline & Space Glitches – Major Tech News (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Tech Shockwaves: Slimmest iPhone, TikTok’s Lifeline & Space Glitches – Major Tech News (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Key Facts Consumer Electronics: Slim Phones and Smart Glasses Apple’s Thinnest iPhone Yet: Apple’s fall product event introduced the iPhone Air, a dramatically slimmed-down iPhone that Apple billed as its biggest design shake-up in eight years reuters.com reuters.com. At just 5.6 mm thick, the iPhone Air is thinner than even its rival Samsung’s 5.8 mm Galaxy S25 Edge reuters.com. Inside the razor-thin chassis, Apple managed to fit its latest A19 Pro processor and claimed “all-day” battery life reuters.com reuters.com. The device carries a single rear camera (a trade-off to achieve the ultra-thin design) and uses an eSIM-only approach – something analysts warned
17 September 2025
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Starlink Blitz, Spy Satellite Surprises & Space Station Boost: Space News Roundup (Sept 5–6, 2025)

Starlink Blitz, Spy Satellite Surprises & Space Station Boost: Space News Roundup (Sept 5–6, 2025)

Key Facts Government & Agency Developments NASA, ISS and International Partners NASA kept busy on multiple fronts. On Sept. 5, NASA announced it will broadcast the launch and docking of Roscosmos’s Progress 93 cargo ship next week, as the Russian freighter carries ~3 tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station nasa.gov. This Progress launch (scheduled for Sept. 11 from Baikonur) and its six-month stay at the ISS come as NASA also tests new ways to maintain the station’s orbit. Notably, a SpaceX Dragon CRS-33 cargo vehicle performed the first-ever reboost of the ISS using its own engines on
6 September 2025
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Global Science Highlights (5–6 September 2025): Breakthroughs, Records, and New Frontiers

Global Science Highlights (5–6 September 2025): Breakthroughs, Records, and New Frontiers

Key Facts Summary Health & Medicine WHO Lifts Global Emergency Status for Mpox (Sept 5, Geneva): The World Health Organization declared that the multi-country mpox outbreak is no longer a global emergency, just over a year after it was designated as one. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the decision on 5 September, citing a sustained drop in cases and deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other affected African nations statnews.com. “This decision is based on sustained declines in cases and deaths… in the DRC and other affected countries,” Tedros noted, while emphasizing continued caution statnews.com. He
6 September 2025
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SpaceX Soars, Google Pays Billions, and More: Tech Bombshells of Sept 5–6, 2025

SpaceX Soars, Google Pays Billions, and More: Tech Bombshells of Sept 5–6, 2025

Key Facts Consumer Electronics and Gadget Highlights (IFA 2025) Major consumer tech brands kicked off September with a flurry of product news at IFA 2025 in Berlin – Europe’s biggest electronics expo which opened on Sept 5. Samsung grabbed headlines by unveiling its Galaxy S25 FE smartphone alongside a new Galaxy Tab S11. The Fan Edition phone and tablet are thinner and lighter than prior models, making only modest spec upgrades but coming at more affordable prices to broaden Samsung’s flagship lineup theverge.com theverge.com. Samsung’s push for value-oriented premium devices follows the strategy it used with earlier FE models to win
6 September 2025
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Spectacular “Blood Moon” Eclipse: Everything to Know About September 2025’s Full Moon

Spectacular ‘Blood Moon’ Eclipse Set to Dazzle the World in September 2025

A Rare Celestial Event on September 7, 2025 On the night of September 7, 2025, skywatchers around much of the world will witness a spectacular full Moon eclipse. In astronomical terms, it’s a total lunar eclipse, meaning the Moon will pass completely through Earth’s dark inner shadow (the umbra). This alignment of Sun, Earth, and Moon can only happen during a full Moon, and it’s relatively rare – typically a few times per year at most. “People should be excited to view the total lunar eclipse… because it doesn’t happen all that often,” says Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer at the
2 September 2025
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Streaming Frenzy: September 2025 Premieres on Netflix, Disney+, Max & More to Binge ASAP

Streaming Frenzy: September 2025 Premieres on Netflix, Disney+, Max & More to Binge ASAP

Key Facts Netflix: Blockbusters, Boxers & Black Rabbit Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in Wednesday Season 2, Part 2 – one of Netflix’s marquee September releases. Netflix is kicking off the fall TV season in style, delivering both highly anticipated originals and big-name licensed titles this month thewrap.com thewrap.com. The streamer’s marquee release is Wednesday – Season 2, Part 2, which lands Sept. 3. The goth-supernatural comedy’s mid-season finale left fans on a cliffhanger, and Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams returns to Nevermore Academy for an “abundance” of twists in the concluding episodes netflix.com netflix.com. In fact, Netflix even threw a mock “graveyard
1 September 2025
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