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For the next week or so, if you happen to be outside during the overnight hours and happen to catch a glimpse of a bright and colorful “shooting star” you might very well have just caught sight of a Taurid meteor. This annual meteor display shows up like clockwork every year between the middle of […]
Sometimes, the best things come in threes. The system V404 Cygni is an old favorite with astronomers. The binary contains a 9-solar-mass black hole that’s slurping gas from a star slightly less massive than the Sun. Astronomically speaking, only a hair’s breath separates the pair: 0.14 astronomical unit, or less than half Mercury’s average distance […]
We will start the month with a look at one of the night sky’s mythical creatures: Pegasus, the winged horse. According to Greek myth, Pegasus was ridden by the hero Perseus in his quest to save the beautiful Andromeda from the dreaded sea monster Cetus. The constellation is one of 48 listed by Ptolemy in […]
Rocket Lab plans to launch a hush-hush mission early Monday morning (Nov. 4), and you can watch the action live. The mission, for a “confidential commercial customer,” is set to lift off atop an Electron vehicle from Rocket Lab‘s New Zealand site on Monday at 5:30 a.m. EST (0930 GMT). Rocket Lab will webcast the […]
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This image is from the occultation of Saturn, September 17 2024. I used a Celestron 5SE, ASI294MC, and a 2x barlow on Saturn. Got a UV/IR cut filter shortly after so it could have been sharper but I’m happy with the result. submitted by /u/Correct_Presence_936 [comments] Source link
Paramount+’s “Star Trek: Lower Decks” has been an unmitigated success as a riotous take on the lives of the unsung junior members of the crew of the USS Cerritos, and now with its fifth and final season airing on the streaming platform it’s time to explore alternate means of enjoying Boimler, Mariner, Tendi, Rutherford, and […]
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For six decades, Boeing has been among the marquee names in human spaceflight. The company helped build Nasa’s mighty Saturn V rockets that put man on the moon; it was a key contractor during the space shuttle era and international space station operations; and its engines are powering the agency’s next leap for the stars, […]
China’s Shenzhou 18 crew are ready to return home after more than six months in space. Astronauts Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu have been living aboard the Tiangong space station since April 25 this year, but are set to return to Earth on Sunday (Nov. 3) after completing their mission. The trio greeted […]