This app-enabled telescope comes with the usual Celestron quality and is a handy £50 off on Wex Photo Video with a discount for US-based astronomers, too.
In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of researchers led by Monash University in Australia have verified the existence of a rare hexagonal structure of diamond called lonsdaleite, within ...
Launches: Last West Coast Delta IV launch September 24 The final United Launch Alliance Delta IV heavy-lift vehicle lifting off from California will take flight at 2:53 p.m. PT (21:53 UTC) on September 24, 2022, from Vandenberg Space Force ...
NASA Artemis I got another launch date for its most-awaited flight, which would take place by Tuesday next week, September 27, but there are speculations on yet another delay for the mission. It is because of weather issues that may ...
NASA's DART spacecraft will crash into the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26 at 7:14 p.m. EDT. Here's how the day will unfold.
Queens is getting its very first planetarium as part of a larger real-estate development in Astoria, according to Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris. Outer space is hurtling towards the outer boroughs. In just four years’ time, Senate Deputy Leader ...
The advanced NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured another stunning image. This time, JWST took a high-definition photo of Neptune’s rings. (Photo : Wikimedia Commons)NASA James Webb Captures HD Neptune Ring Photo—Definitely Better Than Voyager 2’s 1989 Image The international ...
Zodiacal light, or "false dawn," is a phenomenon that occurs when sunlight is scattered by interplanetary dust.
Commercial sales of the Spinnaker drag sail may start as soon as 2023.
Usually associated with bad news, hearing the phrase “loss of signal” will be a reason to celebrate for the team behind NASA’s DART spacecraft scheduled to run smack into an asteroid on Monday. Most NASA spacecraft last years or ...
The Fermi bubbles are massive structures extending from the Milky Way, reaching 50,000 light-years in length.
The weather may force a rethink in the next day or so.
TAMPA, Fla. — U.K.-based Avanti Communications is seeking more partnerships to grow its footprint after securing its first major deal to use another regional satellite operator’s capacity. Avanti announced a five-year partnership with Turkey’s Turksat Sept. 13 that pools ...
The Archytas Dome region of the lunar surface is the target area for the EXPLORE Lunar Data Challenges 2022. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/EXPLORE/Jacobs University Lunar enthusiasts of all ages are challenged to help identify features on the moon that ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Stargazers across the globe will get a great view of Jupiter come Monday night, weather permitting. The solar system’s largest planet will be unusually close to the Earth on Monday, astronomers said. It marks the ...
Artist’s impression of Ariel on its way to Lagrange Point 2 (L2). Here, the spacecraft is shielded from the Sun and has a clear view of the whole sky. Credit: ESA/STFC RAL Space/UCL/Europlanet-Science Office Details of the orbits of ...
PARIS — NASA has revised and expanded a set of objectives it will use to guide its architecture for lunar and Mars exploration after receiving volumes of feedback from commercial and international partners. The agency released the revised list ...
Starlink should have received nearly $900 million in grants, SpaceX charges, saying the funding ruling was 'grossly unfair.'
Artist’s conception of Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in China. Credit: Jingchuan Yu Fast Radio Bursts – A Puzzling and Deepening Mystery An international team of scientists reveals an evolving, magnetized environment and surprising source location for deep-space ...
The findings could help researchers predict dangerous space weather.
The SS Warrimoo, plying the waters of the Pacific. (Credit: Confederation Marine Modellers / Public domain) “Be good and you will be lonesome,” Mark Twain wrote under a photograph of himself. The author sits on a folding chair, his ...
In its first few months of operation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is already proving that it was well worth the wait! To date, it has provided astronomers with the most detailed and precise images of the cosmos, ...
Europlanet Media Centre A panning-view of Jupiter’s upper atmospheric temperatures, 1000 kilometers above the cloud tops. Jupiter is shown on top of a visible image for context. In this snapshot, the auroral region (near the northern pole, in yellow/white) ...
The Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket sits on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 25, 2022. Credit: NASA NASA announced Thursday that the cryogenic fueling test this week at Kennedy Space ...
Sagittarius A* (Sag A) is usually a pretty quiet object, as supermassive black holes go. It’s not wildly active, like the object at the heart of M87, for example. But, every once in a while, there’s a little action ...
More than 200 million people were killed in the 20th century due to war and acts of genocide. Many of these conflicts were rooted in ethnic, national, religious, political, or other forms of identity-group conflict. The 21st century is ...
Hilton will partner with Voyager Space to design living quarters for astronauts on its Starlab commercial space station, the companies announced Tuesday. The hotel giant will work with the private space technology firm to develop communal areas, hospitality suites, ...
Astronomers use the brightness of a type of exploding star known as a supernova type IA (seen here as bright blue dot to the left of a remote spiral galaxy) to determine the age and expansion rate of the ...
ESA has chosen Harmony, to move to the next phase, Phase-A, of development as the tenth Earth Explorer mission. Harmony is envisaged as a mission with two satellites that orbit in formation with one of the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites ...
After completing the NROL-91 mission, ULA will start vacating SLC-6 and consolidate operations at SLC-3 WASHINGTON — A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch a National Reconnaissance Office mission Sept. 24 from Space Launch ...
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DALL-E is spooky good. Not so many years ago, it was easy to conclude that AI technologies would never generate anything of a quality approaching human artistic composition or writing. Now, the generative model programs that power DALL-E 2 ...
Infrared image of the northern hemisphere of Jupiter as seen by JIRAM. Credit: Nature Astronomy (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-022-01774-0 A team of space scientists affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S., working with a colleague from Italy and another from ...
The bubbly will fly on Axiom crewed missions beginning in 2023.
Sketch map of the SDGSAT-1 satellite. /CMG China has started to provide free access to data globally from the Sustainable Development Science Satellite 1 (SDGSAT-1) for scientific research, according to the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Using data from the Gaia space telescope, a team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has shown that large parts of the Milky Way’s outer disk vibrate. The ripples are caused by a ...
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) successfully cast the LGM-35A Sentinel program’s first inert stage-one and stage-two solid rocket motor set this summer. The casting event demonstrated the maturity of Sentinel’s solid rocket motor design and validated manufacturing processes, advanced ...
Scientists want to use Webb to see the beginning of the universe. How is that possible?
We’ve tested a number of star projectors but the National Geographic Astro Planetarium is the first one we’ve had our hands on which is true to the selected time and date. Prior to the review, we assumed it would be ...
During missions on the International Space Station, astronauts’ bodies go through a wide array of changes due to lack of gravity – everything from vision to cardiovascular health to bone density is affected. Though astronauts exercise and take supplements ...