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Planets are thought to form within disks of dust and gas encircling newborn stars. But this cloudy environment tends to shield developing planets from view, preventing astronomers from observing their formation directly. Now, through a stroke of good luck, a still-forming planet has been detected early in its birth process, thanks to what may have […]
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Left: An image of the star WOH G64 taken with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer in Chile. Right: An artist’s impression of the star ESO/K. Ohnaka et al., L. Calçada Astronomers have taken the first detailed picture of a star in another galaxy, more than 160,000 light years away. The giant star may be showing […]
SpaceX plans to launch 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast this morning (Nov. 21). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during a nearly four-hour window that opens at 11:07 a.m. EST (1607 GMT). SpaceX will webcast the […]
Hey all This may be obscure but i never thought to reference this on reddit. Is there a way to track the night sky going back years? In mid October to mid November sometime in 2014, i was hanging out of my window and witnessed what looked to be a supernova. It was still, white, […]
Talking about images… Mastcam is taking documentation images on the Big Oak Flat and Calaveras targets, and a target simply called “trough.” In addition, there are mosaics on “Basket Dome” and “Chilkoot,” amounting to quite a few images of this diverse and interesting terrain! More images will be taken by the navigation cameras for the […]
For twelve years, we’ve watched Curiosity crawl its way over the rocky surface of Mars, decoding mysteries of the Red Planet and broadcasting back home pictures and data from the strange Martian environment. The Mars rover, built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), has slowly scaled Mount Sharp since 2014. This mountain, officially monikered “Aeolis […]
NASA is working with U.S. industry to develop the human landing systems that will safely carry astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and back throughout the agency’s Artemis campaign. For Artemis III, the first crewed return to the lunar surface in over 50 years, NASA is working with SpaceX to develop […]
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