Two NASA astronauts, a Japanese space veteran and Russia’s only female cosmonaut, flew to Kennedy Space Center on Saturday to prepare for launch Wednesday during a flight to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. Their Falcon 9 rocket rolled atop historic Platform 39A before dawn Saturday and spun vertically just after …
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Two NASA astronauts, a Japanese space veteran and Russia’s only female cosmonaut, flew to Kennedy Space Center on Saturday to prepare for launch Wednesday during a flight to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. Their Falcon 9 rocket rolled atop historic Platform 39A before dawn Saturday and spun vertically just after …
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The scientists used spectroscopic observations of quasar ultraviolet light to detect and map the Magellanic Corona, a diffuse halo of hot, supercharged gas surrounding the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds. Depicted in purple, the corona extends more than 100,000 light-years out from the main mass of stars, gas and dust that make up the Magellanic …
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The scientists used spectroscopic observations of quasar ultraviolet light to detect and map the Magellanic Corona, a diffuse halo of hot, supercharged gas surrounding the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds. Depicted in purple, the corona extends more than 100,000 light-years from the main mass of stars, gas and dust that make up the Magellanic Clouds, …
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Enlarge / United Launch Alliance moves its Atlas V booster into the Vertical Integration Facility adjacent to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday, August 26. United Launch Alliance Hurricane Ian cut a devastating swath across Florida this week, and its core passed directly over Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral …
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A strange shield of supercharged gas protects dwarf galaxies from being torn apart by the Milky Way’s gravitational pull, 30 years of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal. For years, astronomers have struggled to explain why the Big and Small Magellanic Cloudstwo tiny galaxies orbiting Milky Wayform again stars. The two dwarfs galaxies have …
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President Biden applauds the unveiling of the first-ever color image of James Webb Astronomers have made a sparkling discovery in what was the first-ever color image released by the new James Webb Space Super Telescope. The image, presented to the world in July by US President Joe Biden, shows an incredibly deep view of the …
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In the past eight years ago, a modified Boeing 747 made hundreds of flights on a single mission: to carry a 19-tonne, 2.5-meter telescope known as the Sofia, or Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy . Flying a telescope on a jumbo jet offered a way to scan the sky at wavelengths that could not be …
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NASA and SpaceX agreed last week on an unfunded study to investigate the feasibility of boosting the Hubble Space Telescope, which is at risk of falling out of orbit within the next decade, into a higher orbit. SpaceX approached NASA earlier this year about the potential use of one of its Dragon spacecraft to move …
NASA and SpaceX agreed last week on an unfunded study to investigate the feasibility of boosting the Hubble Space Telescope, which is at risk of falling out of orbit within the next decade, into a higher orbit. SpaceX approached NASA earlier this year about the potential use of one of its Dragon spacecraft to move …
