Tag: space
Take a Look at The Largest And Most Detailed 3D Map of The Universe Ever Made
A ‘CT scan’ of the Universe across more than 5 billion light-years. (D. Schlegel/Berkeley Lab/DESI data The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), currently pointed skyward from its home in the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, is tasked with tracking the expansion of space,…
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Astronomers Capture Red Supergiant Star Exploding in Massive Supernova – For the Very First Time
An artist’s impression of a red supergiant star in the final year of its life emitting a tumultuous cloud of gas. This suggests at least some of these stars undergo significant internal changes before going supernova. Credit: W.M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko The death of a star is one of the…
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Mars looks like a delicious dessert in stunning spacecraft image
The red planet looks good enough to eat in this Trace Gas Orbiter image of a crater. ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a breathtaking new photo of a two-and-a-half-mile-wide ice-covered crater on Mars affectionately nicknamed “Red Velvet.”Spotted by Digitaltrends, the image was captured by the Trace…
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Inspiration4’s successful splashdown is just the beginning of private spaceflight for SpaceX
Just like that, they came back. The Inspiration4 crew made a triumphant splashdown on Saturday evening off the east coast of Florida, marking the close of the first completely private, all-civilian space mission. SpaceX’s Go Searcher recovery ship hauled the Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience, a little less than an…
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Aurora Propulsion Technologies closes €1.7M seed for spacecraft maneuvering and deorbiting tech
More spacecraft will be sent to orbit this year than ever before in human history, and the number of satellite launches is only anticipated to increase through the rest of the decade. Under these crowded conditions, being able to maneuver satellites in space and deorbit them when they reach the…
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Watch SpaceX launch the first all-civilian Inspiration4 mission to space live
[embedded content] After months of publicity, an NFT auction and even a Netflix docuseries, it’s finally here: the four-person crew of Inspiration4 will be heading to space today (weather permitting). What makes this launch different from any that came before it? None of the four people onboard are astronauts. The…
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