northAsa has asked American universities to come up with new technologies to help the space agency conduct a sustainable exploration of the moon. Selected applicants will receive up to $ 2 million (£ 1.5 million) from the recently launched Lunar Surface Technology Research (Lustr) opportunity to rapidly develop technology in …
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White dwarf stars have been doing some weird stuff lately. There was one that was thrown through the Milky Way half-burned, and now it was discovered that a white dwarf that turned into a supernova emitted a monstrous and mysterious UV flash. This is not your typical supernova. Whatever it …
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The dispatch of an observatory to space is usually done by rocket. You stuff the spacecraft into a payload bay, launch it into space, and then deploy it into orbit around Earth. For NASA’s ASTHROS observatory, the space agency has devised a completely different strategy to bring its hardware to …
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Virgin Galactic has revealed the interior of its central space plane, showing a cabin with new custom seats and a “space mirror” on a virtual tour of what its passengers can expect to experience on flights to the edge of space. For $ 250,000 per ticket, passengers who signed up …
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Earlier today (July 28, 2020), the near-Earth asteroid 2020 OY4 had an extremely close, but safe, encounter with our planet, reaching a minimum distance from Earth of approximately 26,000 miles (42,000 km), less than 11 % of the average distance from the moon. We managed to capture his image as …
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