Magnificent NGC 253, the Silver Coin Galaxy in Sculptor. Image: Warren Keller/Telescope Live. Amateur astronomers just love the challenge of checking out those horizon-hugging southern constellations and seeking the deep-sky
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NASA Launches Mission to Study Earth’s Magnetic Shield
NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission launched at 2:13 p.m. EDT atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force
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New Neil Armstrong Prize to honor achievements in space
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NASA Scientist Finds Predicted Companion Star to Betelgeuse
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Ocean Planet Genomics: Deep-sea DNA Study Reveals Global Connectivity Of Earth’s Marine Life
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The gruesome palette of these galaxies is owed to a mix of mid-infrared light from the James Webb Space Telescope, and visible and ultraviolet light from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Messier 103 in Cassiopeia is an impressive open cluster that gives a good view through a small- to medium-aperture telescope. Image: David Wills. Messier 103 (NGC 581) is Cassiopeia’s second
IC 10 is a dwarf irregular galaxy that’s a member of our Local Group. Intense star formation here leads to its ‘starburst’ classification. Image: Leonardo Orazi. Galaxies are everywhere, including
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) imaged on 3 October from Tivoli Farm, Namibia, southern Africa. The comet, exhibiting a 10° long tail, was only a few degrees up in the pre-dawn
Agency 09/10/2024 19777 views 56 likes In 2023, ESA published more than 400 vacancies in engineering, science and business and administration and more positions continue to be published as we
Nowhere on Earth can we fully replicate the conditions on Mars. Special facilities can re-create certain elements with enough fidelity to test specific scenarios, but each is limited, leading to
On Saturday, Jan. 20, communications were reestablished between Ingenuity and NASA’s Perseverance rover. The Ingenuity team has determined the helicopter is power-positive and is sitting vertically on the surface. Next
On Jan. 18, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter executed its 72nd flight at the Red Planet. The flight was designed as a quick pop-up vertical flight to check out the helicopter’s
Flight 72 Expected flight date: 01/18/2024 Horizontal flight distance: 0 meters Expected flight time: 32.08 seconds Flight altitude: 12 meters Heading: NA Max flight speed: 0 m/s Goal of flight: Pop-up Flight – Localization Airfield:
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