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Astronomers Take Remarkably Zoomed-In Image of Red Supergiant Star (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) 160,000 light-years away, a star 2,000 times the mass of the Sun is dying. Now, that star has been imaged as never before—extremely up-close—revealing details of the star’s activity and surrounding structure. The recent image of the star was snapped […]
Space camera films footage of giant Starship rocket launching to space (Image Credit: Mashable) You know you live in the space age when solar storms knock out farmers’ GPS-reliant tractors and a camera in Earth’s lofty orbit films a rocket launching through the atmosphere. This camera attached to the International Space Station […]
Space Force adjusts timeline as Vulcan’s national security launches slip to 2025 (Image Credit: Space News) Join our newsletter to get the latest military space newsevery Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is bracing for delays in launching key national security payloads aboard United Launch […]
Supermassive black holes bent the laws of physics to grow to monstrous sizes (Image Credit: Space.com) Scientists have found evidence that black holes that existed less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang may have defied the laws of physics to grow to monstrous sizes. The discovery could solve one of […]
Did NASA’s Perseverance rover really find organics on Mars? These scientists aren’t so sure (Image Credit: Space.com) The quest to find life beyond our planet has captivated humanity for decades, driving missions that continue to push deeper into the solar system. Last summer, NASA’s Perseverance rover made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars […]
NASA’s Curiosity rover captures 360-degree view of Mars — and finds strange sulfur stones (Image Credit: Space.com) For twelve years, we’ve watched Curiosity crawl its way over the rocky surface of Mars, decoding mysteries of the Red Planet and broadcasting back home pictures and data from the strange Martian environment. The Mars […]
Watch Russian Progress cargo spacecraft launch to the ISS on Nov. 21 (Image Credit: Space.com) A Russian cargo spacecraft will launch toward the space station on Thursday morning (Nov. 21), and you can watch it live. A Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch the uncrewed Progress 90 spacecraft to the International Space […]
Expert Warns That Elon Musk May Gut NASA (Image Credit: futurism-com) Now that president-elect Donald Trump has solidified his bromance with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the role of NASA could start to look dramatically different. Trump has put Musk in charge of a so-called “Department of Government Efficiency,” where the mercurial CEO has […]
‘Superhighways’ connecting the cosmic web could unlock secrets about dark matter (Image Credit: Space.com) Giant filaments crisscross the universe, connecting galaxy clusters like superhighways between cities. Their shape and structure encode vital information about the contents and history of the universe. But due to their complex shapes, they are stubbornly difficult to […]
Solar Orbiter spacecraft captures sharpest views yet of sun’s surface (images) (Image Credit: Space.com) The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution images of the sun’s surface to date, providing fresh views of our well-studied star. On Wednesday (Nov. 20), the European Space Agency (ESA) shared four new images the […]
