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A ‘giant’ rising in the desert: World’s largest telescope comes together (photo) (Image Credit: Space.com) Construction of the world’s largest telescope moves forward with progress of the structure’s dome and housing for the primary mirror. The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world’s largest visible- and infrared-light telescope […]
Sun unleashes surprise X-class solar flare triggering radio blackout over southern Africa (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) Aurora forecast (Image credit: Daisy Dobrijevic/Canva) Keep up to date with the latest northern lights news with our aurora forecast live blog. The sun appears to have woken from its slumber with an impulsive X-class solar […]
Are there hidden oceans inside the moons of Uranus? Their wobbles could tell us (Image Credit: Space.com) The chance of liquid oceans hiding beneath the surface of moons orbiting Uranus has enticed NASA to begin planning a new mission that will send a spacecraft to the ice giant. The mission is still […]
‘We live in a universe that is just right for us’: Study proposes a test for the Anthropic Principle (Image Credit: Phys.org) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Multiverse.png. Credit: Silver Spoon The Anthropic Principle—stating that the universe we live in is fine-tuned to host life—was first proposed by Brandon Carter in 1973. Since then, it has sparked […]
China is building on-orbit space situational awareness capabilities to navigate crowded orbits (Image Credit: Space News) Join our newsletter to get the latest military space newsevery Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. HELSINKI — China is developing a dependence on space-based space situational awareness as its space activities expand, according to […]
Supply chain woes in the defense industry: ‘Let’s not fool ourselves’ (Image Credit: Space News) Join our newsletter to get the latest military space newsevery Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — A critical challenge facing the U.S. defense industrial base came into sharp focus this weekend at the Reagain […]
Ancient cosmic collisions may have birthed the universe’s most monstrous galaxies (Image Credit: Space.com) Astronomers have discovered that large flows of cold gas created by collisions between galaxies in the early universe may have forged some of the most monstrous star systems. The formation of ancient gigantic galaxies that bulge like footballs […]
SpaceX launches 23 Starlink internet satellites from Florida (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX launched another batch of its broadband satellites from Florida early Sunday morning (Dec. 8). A Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 Starlink spacecraft, including 13 with direct-to-cell capabilities, from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday at 12:12 a.m. […]
Astronomers wonder if galaxies are falling into this giant black hole (Image Credit: Mashable) The Hubble Space Telescope captured some weird, unidentified stuff in the most detailed photos ever taken of the immediate space surrounding a quasar. Quasars, a shortening of the term “quasi-stellar objects,” are blindingly bright galaxy cores in the […]
SpaceX launches 23 Starlink internet satellites from Florida (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX launched another batch of its broadband satellites from Florida early Sunday morning (Dec. 8). A Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 Starlink spacecraft, including 13 with direct-to-cell capabilities, from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday at 12:12 a.m. EST […]
