On Tuesday, September 29, the Russian State Space Corporation (Roscosmos) announced that astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) had found the source of a suspicious leak. The crew of the expedition – NASA astronaut and commander Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Evan Wagner – had been …
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It’s a good month for stargazing. First with a full harvest moon, then with a rare blue moon on Halloween, and now, it’s the red planet’s turn to steal the show. Mars will be closer to Earth than usual tonight, and will look bigger and brighter than it has for …
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Astronomers have obtained the highest resolution of infrared images near the Kerina Nebula, a thick cloud of dust and gas in which stars are actively forming. Gemini in Chile is incredible to see the newly obtained images obtained from the South Telescope. It’s also useful for understanding stellar nurseries and …
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File photo: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket pad 39A with the seventh batch of SpaceX broadband network satellites took off on April 22, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. Ritter / Joe Skipper (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX has won a 14 149 million (11 114.8 million) contract to …
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NASA’s Cygnus launch on the International Space Station this week could appear in most parts of the east coast, depending on weather conditions. The unmanned Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft will launch on Thursday from NASA’s Wall Laps flight facility in Virginia on one of the company’s entry rockets. The launch, …
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