All posts tagged "Space"
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6SpaceStarwatch: Venus will be exceptionally bright in gathering twilight | Space
Often referred to as the evening star, Venus is absolutely radiant in the gathering twilight this week. It reaches a configuration known...
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23FeaturedWhy did the UK’s oldest space satellite end up thousands of miles from where it should have been?
BBC/Gerry Fletcher Artwork: The half-tonne Skynet-1A satellite was launched in November 1969 Someone moved the UK’s oldest satellite and there appears to...
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7SpaceGames to look forward to in 2025: Directive 8020 | Games
Supermassive’s games have always been cinematic, from the persuasive performances of slasher-horror Until Dawn to the chillier atmosphere of interactive ghost story...
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9Space‘Kiss and capture’: scientists offer new theory on how Pluto got its largest moon | Pluto
It sounds like one of Kipling’s Just So Stories but it is rooted in science: experts say they have a new theory...
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9SpaceNo telescope needed: how to navigate the Australian night sky in summer | Virginia Kilborn
It’s summer in Australia and that means many of us head out of the city and off to a remote camping site,...
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10SpaceMy 90,000 shots of the sun: Andrew McCarthy’s best photograph | Photography
I bought a telescope on a whim in 2017, thinking back fondly to when my dad used to show me Jupiter and...
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8SpaceBezos’s Blue Origin schedules, then delays first orbital launch | Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin announced it would launch its first orbital rocket “no earlier than Friday”, a pivotal moment in the commercial...
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7Space‘I think there is life there. Today’: the race to put a human on Mars – in pictures | Mars
Last September, Elon Musk used the social media platform he had bought for £35bn to remind the world that he had bigger...
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15SpaceCountry diary: The northern lights have reached us, down in the valley | Astronomy
It’s a calm, clear evening at last after two days of relentless wind and rain. When my son phones to tell me...
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NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble’s Discovery of a New Universe
In commemoration of Edwin Hubble’s discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago,...
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50 Years Ago: Preparing the Final Saturn Rocket for Flight
With the historic first international space docking mission only six months away, preparations on the ground for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP)...
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Langley’s Propeller Research Tunnel – NASA
Elton W. Miller, chief of aerodynamics at what is now NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, stands in the entrance cone...
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NASA Solar Observatory Sees Coronal Loops Flicker Before Big Flares
For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares — intense bursts of light on the Sun that can...
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7SpaceStarwatch: Mars at its brightest, closest to Earth and in conjunction with moon | Mars
It’s all about Mars this week. The planet is at its closest approach to Earth for the next two years and will...
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NASA Seeks Proposals for Space Biology and Physical Sciences Research
The Physical Sciences program is divided into two key goals: Foundations and Quantum Leaps. Foundations focuses on understanding the behavior of fluids,...
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The 7 best total solar eclipses of the next 10 years
Eclipse-watchers have plenty to look forward to in the next decade. Over the next ten years, Earth will experience seven total solar...
