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First Detailed Image of a Star Outside Our Galaxy Is Out of This World (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 […]
Russian Soyuz rocket launches supplies to ISS on 90th Progress cargo spacecraft (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) A Russian cargo spacecraft launched toward the space station on Thursday morning (Nov. 21). A Soyuz rocket launched the uncrewed Progress 90 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Thursday from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at7:22 […]
Star imaged in detail outside the Milky Way for the 1st time (image, video) (Image Credit: Space.com) Astronomers have captured a “zoomed-in” image of a star outside the Milky Way for the first time. The team brought the vast red supergiant star designated WOH G64 into focus using the Very Large Telescope […]
What’s next for SpaceX’s Starship after its successful 6th test flight? (Image Credit: Space.com) The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built now has six test flights under its belt — and it’s just getting started. SpaceX launched its 400-foot-tall (122-meter-tall) Starship megarocket for the sixth time ever on Tuesday (Nov. 19), […]
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 […]
