Why outer space matters in a post-pandemic world
With all of the immense challenges we face on Earth this year, space can feel like an afterthought.
Space Exploration
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Hubble sees a cosmic flapping 'Bat Shadow'
Sometimes nicknames turn out to be closer to reality than you might imagine.
Astronomy
Jun 25, 2020
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Gemini gets lucky and takes a deep dive into Jupiter's clouds
Researchers using a technique known as "lucky imaging" with the Gemini North telescope on Hawaii's Maunakea have collected some of the highest resolution images of Jupiter ever obtained from the ground. These images are part ...
Astronomy
May 8, 2020
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NASA images show fall in China pollution over virus shutdown
NASA satellite images show a dramatic fall in pollution over China that is "partly related" to the economic slowdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, the space agency said.
Environment
Mar 2, 2020
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A real-life deluminator for spotting exoplanets by reflected starlight
Perhaps you remember the opening scene of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" that took place on Privet Drive. A bearded man pulled a mysterious device, called a deluminator, from his dark robe and one by one the lights ...
Astronomy
Dec 19, 2019
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New NASA-funded CubeSat poised to take Earth's temperature from space
All of a sudden, a tiny NASA-funded satellite, one of many passengers aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, shot into the sky on a mission to prove its new technology could change the way we measure Earth, and eventually, ...
Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2019
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Spitzer spots a starry region bursting with bubbles
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are inflated by wind and radiation from young, massive stars. Each bubble is filled with hundreds to thousands of ...
Astronomy
Sep 30, 2019
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The visible spectrum of C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), the first confirmed interstellar comet
Shortly before dawn on September 13th, Julia de León, Miquel Serra-Ricart, Javier Licandro, all members of IAC's solar system Group, and Carlos Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, from the Complutense University of Madrid, obtained ...
Astronomy
Sep 16, 2019
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Saturn's rings shine in Hubble's latest portrait
Saturn is so beautiful that astronomers cannot resist using the Hubble Space Telescope to take yearly snapshots of the ringed world when it is at its closest distance to Earth.
Astronomy
Sep 12, 2019
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India locates missing Moon lander
Indian space scientists were desperately trying Tuesday to establish communication with their broken Moon lander, having located the probe that went silent moments before it was due to make a historic soft landing.
Space Exploration
Sep 10, 2019
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