NASA marked its annual Day of Remembrance – and 55 years since the Apollo 1 tragedy on Thursday. Each January, the agency pauses to honor members of NASA who died while “furthering the cause of exploration and discovery.” US COMMITS TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION THROUGH 2030 Those honored include the crews of Apollo 1 …
Researchers in Australia said they located a “spooky” item about 4,000 light-years away that mysteriously becomes one of the brightest objects in the sky for about one minute every 20 minutes, according to a report. Dr. Natasha Hurley-Walker, an astrophysicist from Australia’s Curtin University, International Center for Radio Astronomy Research said observing its odd bursts …
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The James Webb Space Telescope arrived at its observation point on Monday afternoon. In a blog post, NASA said that the $10 billion observatory fired its rocket thrusters for nearly five minutes to complete the final postlaunch course correction to Webb’s trajectory. JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE TEAM ANNOUNCES DEPLOYMENT OF ALL MIRRORS “This mid-course correction …
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Scientists have theorized that COVID-19 lockdowns may have helped decrease the amount of lightning produced in the atmosphere in the year 2020, according to a recent study. A study presented at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) analyzed atmospheric factors that may have contributed to reductions of 10-20%, depending on how lightning …
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A man was found dead in his Maryland home this week with more than 100 venomous and non-venomous snakes, authorities said. The man, whose name was not immediately released, was found dead Wednesday by deputies in his house in Pomfret, about 30 miles south of Washington D.C. – after a neighbor saw him lying on …
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The James Webb Space Telescope hit another milestone this week and NASA announced that the $10 billion observatory’s 18 hexagonal mirror segments and its secondary mirror have been fully deployed. “Just in from the @NASAWebb team: All 18 primary mirror segments and the secondary mirror are now fully deployed!” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson wrote in …
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The undersea volcano near the island nation of Tonga erupted on Saturday with an explosive force that was more than 600 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, according to scientists and reports. James Garvin, the chief scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told NPR that they came up “with …
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Astronomers are tracking a large and “potentially hazardous” asteroid that is set to make a relatively close pass by the Earth on Tuesday. The asteroid, called 7482 (1994 PC1), is expected to fly by our planet around 4:51 p.m., at about five times the distance from the Earth to the Moon. “Near-Earth #asteroid 1994 PC1 …
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has run into another snag on its mission to find evidence of ancient microbial life. In continuing to collect Martian rock and regolith samples, which will eventually return to Earth, the rover encountered a “new challenge.” STUDY NIXES MARS LIFE IN METEORITE FOUND IN ANTARCTICA “Seems some pebble-sized debris is obstructing …
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What is a new moon? What is the modern definition of a new moon? This video explains why this happens and how often. The next full moon, known as the “wolf moon,” will occur on the evening of Monday, Jan. 17. According to a NASA blog, the moon will appear opposite the sun in Earth-based …
NASA plans two missions to Venus NASA aims for two new missions to Venus to learn more about the ‘lost habitable’ world; former NASA astronaut Tom Jones provides insight on ‘CAVUTO Live.’ NASA announced this week that citizen scientists had spotted a Jupiter-like exoplanet in data from its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). In a …
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A 4 billion-year-old meteorite from Mars that caused a splash here on Earth decades ago contains no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life after all, scientists reported Thursday. In 1996, a NASA-led team announced that organic compounds in the rock appeared to have been left by living creatures. Other scientists were skeptical and researchers chipped …
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Astronomers have captured the death of a red supergiant star for the first time. The real-time discovery was published Jan. 6 in Astrophysical Journal and led by researchers at Northwestern University and the University of California, Berkeley. JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE IS FULLY DEPLOYED According to a press release from Northwestern, the team observed the …
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Nature reserve workers in the U.K. have discovered the fossilized remains of a sea creature that existed some 180 million years ago during the Jurassic Period. Workers found the 32-foot skeleton of the ichthyosaur – known colloquially as a “sea dragon” – in the Rutland Water Nature Reserve near Leicester. A man poses next to …
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NASA announced Saturday that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been fully deployed. “#NASAWebb is fully deployed! With the successful deployment & latching of our last mirror wing, that’s: 50 major deployments, complete. 178 pins, released. 20+ years of work, realized,” the agency tweeted. “Next to #UnfoldTheUniverse: traveling out to our orbital destination of …
China has recommitted itself to completing its orbiting space station by the end of the year and says it is planning more than 40 launches for 2022, putting it roughly level with the United States. Launches would include those of two Shenzhou crewed missions, two Tianzhou cargo spacecraft and the station’s additional two modules, the …
