All posts tagged "Space"
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14SpaceBlue Ghost Lunar Lander Heads to the Moon – Sky & Telescope
A Falcon 9 rocket launches with Blue Ghost NASA / Frank Michaux A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket headed skyward early this morning,...
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9SpaceThe risks of ‘space junk’ are clear: what goes up, might well come back down on top of you | Patrick Schröder
Last month, people in a small village in Kenya looked to the sky and saw a red glowing ring slowly descending. The...
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How It Started, How It’s Going: Johnson Space Center Edition
If you ask Johnson Space Center employees why they work for NASA, many will tell you it was always their dream. For...
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James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: ‘This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem’
Astronomers may have “saved cosmology” by gathering the largest sample yet of some of the most ancient galaxies ever seen, the so-called...
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What’s next for the 2 private landers SpaceX just launched toward the moon?
Two newly launched private moon landers have long roads ahead of them. Early on Tuesday morning (Jan. 15), a SpaceX Falcon 9...
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Grab Your Binoculars for Comet ATLAS’s Brief Sunset Show – Sky & Telescope
Clouds thwarted Petr Horálek’s attempt to see Comet ATLAS on Jan. 14th, so he drove from Slovakia to Hungary over 400 kilometers...
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Industrial Project Threatens Dark Chilean Skies – Sky & Telescope
The dark skies above the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory, home to the Very Large Telescope, yield breathtaking views so clear and...
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40SpaceSpaceX launches two lunar landers to the moon | Technology
Two privately built lunar landers were speeding towards the moon on Wednesday after space start-ups from Texas and Japan split the cost...
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19SpaceSeeing stars: meet the amateur astronomers – in pictures
They may stare into space from shonky-looking booths, but these citizen scientists have helped discover comets, dangerous asteroids and more Continue reading…...
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NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas
This shimmering cosmic curtain shows interstellar gas and dust that has been heated by the flashbulb explosion of a long-ago supernova. The...
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Liftoff! NASA Sends Science, Tech to Moon on Firefly, SpaceX Flight
A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on its way to our nearest celestial neighbor aboard a commercial spacecraft,...
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Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping
Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for...
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Galaxy-mapping Satellite Ends Science Operations – Sky & Telescope
During its 10.5-year mission Gaia has not produced a single image – but instead one of the most amazing maps of our...
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7Space‘We’re very fortunate’: stargazers to see almost all planets in the night sky at the same time | Astronomy
Stargazers are being treated to a rare “planet parade” this month, with most of the planets visible in the night sky at...
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Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument Poster
While Roman will operate alongside other space telescopes like Hubble, WFI’s capabilities are pushing the boundaries of what is possible. Roman’s WFI...
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An ancient 3-star system gave this ‘blue lurker’ star a turbo boost, scientists find
If you gaze at the night sky on a clear night, especially from a remote corner of Earth, you’ll see a vast...
