NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are releasing new images of the sun on Thursday morning, bringing humans closer to our host star than ever before. The photos are the first captured by Solar Orbiter, which was released earlier this year. After its launch on February 9, Solar Orbiter …
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The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a distant star covering the shadows of the “bat wing” in space. The bright light from the star is hitting a debris disk surrounding the star, casting wide shadows that we can see thanks to Hubble. The wings even “flutter” as a …
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NASA needs a lot of money if it hopes to accomplish a manned mission to the Moon by 2024, but lawmakers are not giving up. A proposed budget for NASA requested nearly $ 5 billion, but was approved for just over $ 1.5 billion, making the return of the Moon …
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An invisible object appears to be interacting with other objects along the edge of our solar system, and researchers don’t know exactly what it is. Theories of “planet nine” have been proposed, but others believe it may be a small black hole. The researchers plan to scan the skies for …
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Seen here in the pre-dawn skies over the California desert, Comet NEOWISE is about to become a … [+] instead, the post-sunset object, making it the most spectacular comet in Earth’s skies in 13 years. Dbot3000 / Wikimedia Commons Occasionally, large icy objects pass through the inner Solar System. C …
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