We all know and love our moon. It has been a constant companion of the earth for billions of years, the mainstay of the sky. But he is not our only ally. Now and then, a few months or years before returning to space – a small object is temporarily …
Read More »NASA invented and patented a quick, inexpensive way to reach the moon
The moon is both amazingly close to Earth and cosmicly far away: after the end of the space race, it is extraordinarily expensive and really hard to get there. The journey got a little easier, however, thanks to the newly published NASA discovery. The agency’s patent does not cover a …
Read More »We just found the fastest star in the Milky Way, traveling at 8% the speed of light
We found the fastest known star in the Milky Way. In the extreme environment at the center of our galaxy is a newly discovered star named S4714 around the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A *. On its orbital journey, S4714 reaches a speed of about 8 percent of the speed …
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