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25 Feb 2021, 20:50 UTC
Two NASA astronauts are getting their tools and spacesuits ready for Sunday’s spacewalk to ready the International Space Station for new solar arrays. Meanwhile, the rest of the Expedition 64 crew focused on a variety of space research on Thursday.
Crew Examines Worms, Explores Space Manufacturing During Spacewalk Preps
25 Feb 2021, 20:50 UTC
Two NASA astronauts are getting their tools and spacesuits ready for Sunday’s spacewalk to ready the International Space Station for new solar arrays. Meanwhile, the rest of the Expedition 64 crew focused on a variety of space research on Thursday.
Sky and Telescope
25 Feb 2021, 16:37 UTC
Scientists may have discovered a clue to how massive stars form in the Orion Nebula and a stellar birthplace.
A Map of a Stellar Explosion
25 Feb 2021, 16:37 UTC
Scientists may have discovered a clue to how massive stars form in the Orion Nebula and a stellar birthplace.
Universe Today
24 Feb 2021, 20:37 UTC
Binary star systems are everywhere. They make up a huge percentage of all known solar systems: from what we can tell, about half of all Sun-like stars have a binary partner. But we haven’t really had a chance to study them in detail yet. That’s about to change. Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft, a research team has just compiled a gigantic new catalog of nearby binary star systems, and it shows that at least 1.3 million of them exist within 3000 light-years of Eart
Our Part of the Galaxy is Packed with Binary Stars
24 Feb 2021, 20:37 UTC
Binary star systems are everywhere. They make up a huge percentage of all known solar systems: from what we can tell, about half of all Sun-like stars have a binary partner. But we haven’t really had a chance to study them in detail yet. That’s about to change. Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft, a research team has just compiled a gigantic new catalog of nearby binary star systems, and it shows that at least 1.3 million of them exist within 3000 light-years of Eart
Scientific American
23 Feb 2021, 20:00 UTC
The NASA spacecraft has also snapped more shots of its surroundings and listened to a Martian wind gust.
Mars Video Reveals Perseverance Rover's Daring Touchdown
23 Feb 2021, 20:00 UTC
The NASA spacecraft has also snapped more shots of its surroundings and listened to a Martian wind gust.
Bad Astronomy
23 Feb 2021, 14:00 UTC
Using one of the largest optical light telescopes in the world, astronomers have identified one of the rarest beasts in the Universe: An extremely distant type of galaxy called a BL Lac object, a galaxy's supermassive black hole spewing out a beam of energy so powerful it dwarfs the light of the entire galaxy it comes from.
Staring down the throat of an ancient, *extremely* distant black hole
23 Feb 2021, 14:00 UTC
Using one of the largest optical light telescopes in the world, astronomers have identified one of the rarest beasts in the Universe: An extremely distant type of galaxy called a BL Lac object, a galaxy's supermassive black hole spewing out a beam of energy so powerful it dwarfs the light of the entire galaxy it comes from.
SciTech Daily
23 Feb 2021, 11:10 UTC
A team of scientists has detected the presence of a high-energy neutrino — a particularly elusive particle — in the wake of a star’s destruction as it is consumed by a black hole. This discovery sheds new light on the origins of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays — the highest energy particles in the Universe.
Ghost Particle From Star Shredded by Black Hole Reveals Cosmic Particle Accelerator
23 Feb 2021, 11:10 UTC
A team of scientists has detected the presence of a high-energy neutrino — a particularly elusive particle — in the wake of a star’s destruction as it is consumed by a black hole. This discovery sheds new light on the origins of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays — the highest energy particles in the Universe.
Lights in the Dark
22 Feb 2021, 21:45 UTC
On February 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars, becoming the fifth robotic rover to do so and the third operational exploration robot currently on the planet’s surface. Today during a press conference NASA released stunning high-definition video from Perseverance’s entry, descent, and landing (EDL) sequence to the anticipation and excitement of scientists and space enthusiasts alike. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out below…guaranteed it’s something you’ve never seen before!
This Is What It’s Like To Land on Mars
22 Feb 2021, 21:45 UTC
On February 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars, becoming the fifth robotic rover to do so and the third operational exploration robot currently on the planet’s surface. Today during a press conference NASA released stunning high-definition video from Perseverance’s entry, descent, and landing (EDL) sequence to the anticipation and excitement of scientists and space enthusiasts alike. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out below…guaranteed it’s something you’ve never seen before!
Universe Today
22 Feb 2021, 14:09 UTC
Origin stories are a focus of many astronomical studies. Planetary formation, solar system formation, and even galaxy formation have long been studied in order to understand how the universe came to be where it is today. Now, a team of scientists from the Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (LAGER) consortium have found an extremely early “protogalaxy” that was formed approximately 750 million years after the big bang. Studying it can provide insights into that early type of galaxy formation and everything that comes after.
Protogalaxy Cluster Found When the Cosmic Fog Was Starting to Clear, When the Universe Was Just 750 Million Years Old
22 Feb 2021, 14:09 UTC
Origin stories are a focus of many astronomical studies. Planetary formation, solar system formation, and even galaxy formation have long been studied in order to understand how the universe came to be where it is today. Now, a team of scientists from the Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (LAGER) consortium have found an extremely early “protogalaxy” that was formed approximately 750 million years after the big bang. Studying it can provide insights into that early type of galaxy formation and everything that comes after.
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