(WIRED reached out to Cal Fire, but they were unable to comment for press time due to the ongoing wildfire in California.) Crews are still checking the area around the observatory, seeing as this group of wildfires, known as the SCU Lightning Complex, continues to blacken the region. As of …
Read More »A close-up view of comet NEOWISE, taken by Hubble on August 8th.Image: NASA, ESA, Q. Zhang (Caltech), and A. Pagan (STScI Comets do not always survive their stay in the inner solar system, but a new close-up image suggests that the comet NEOWISE – the brightest in decades – has …
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The loving spiral arms of the “flocculent” galaxy NGC 2775, 67 million light-years away in the … [+] constellation of cancer. ESA / Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team Recognition: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla) Are we bored by the Hubble spaceships? Ask any space fan what their favorite …
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / CNN) – Amid a pandemic, civil unrest and a divided US election season, we now have an asteroid zooming in on us. On the day before the presidential vote, no less. The celestial object known as 2018VP1 is projected to come close to Earth on Nov. …
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NASA has surpassed a ‘major milestone’ on its last mission to Mars, as the space agency was able to successfully attach the helicopter to the Perseverance rover, known as Ingenuity. The six lithium-ion batteries that support Ingenuity and were charged on August 7, NASA said in a statement. It took …
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