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      "url": "https://atalk.tv/2026/08/nasa-roman-telescope-august-30-launch-target/",
      "title": "NASA’s Roman Telescope Is in Commissioning — Ground Stations Are Ready for the Data Surge",
      "summary": "NASA says the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched successfully on August 30 and separated from its Falcon Heavy upper stage; on September 25, the agency said the ground network that will receive Roman’s high-volume science data is ready for operations expected to begin by early 2027.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-17T00:30:00Z",
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      "url": "https://atalk.tv/2026/08/august-12-total-solar-eclipse-nasa-science-after-event/",
      "title": "The August 12 Total Solar Eclipse Is Over — What NASA Was Studying Along the Path",
      "summary": "NASA’s August 14 imagery documents totality over Spain, while the agency’s eclipse science plan explains how a high-altitude jet and scientific balloons were used to observe the solar corona and atmospheric changes.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-17T05:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-08-17T05:00:00Z",
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      "title": "How a NASA Citizen-Science Project Is Using Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning to Identify Rare Clouds",
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      "date_published": "2026-08-16T17:30:00-07:00",
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      "title": "NASA Researchers Use AI to Spot Solar Active Regions Before They Become Visible",
      "summary": "A COFFIES research model looks for subtle acoustic and magnetic precursors on the Sun, offering a potential earlier warning signal for space-weather forecasting — but NASA says it is not yet operational.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-16T16:55:00Z",
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