Tag: space
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Crew-6 Blasts Off To The International Space Station
Crew-6, the latest round of astronauts to leave Earth, are approaching the International Space Station. The crew of four departed from Kennedy Space Station early Thursday morning on a 25-hour trip to the space station.
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Researchers Study Why Black Holes Twinkle Randomly
Nobody is entirely sure why the brightness of black holes fluctuates. Researchers studied patterns from more than 5,000 black holes over five years using data from NASA’s ATLAS telescope in Hawaii.
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Ep. #515: OVER THE MOON w/ Leonard David
NASA’s Artemis mission to the Moon has run into problems. Leonard David has an update and we’ll explore the new space race and how the U.S. stacks up.
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Ep. #511: SPACE JUNKYARD w/ Dr. Brad Tucker
With space junk becoming even more of an issue and countries ramping up their activities in orbit, Congress is taking action to regulate it. Parts of old rockets are raining down on Earth at a seemingly increasing rate and with more satellites being launched, there’s concern the debris will only get worse. We’ll track it down with Dr. Brad Tucker and discuss the chances of serious damage.
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Dust Trail From Largest Comet Outburst Comes Back Around
It’s now visible from the Southern Hemisphere and is expected to be seen from the Northern Hemisphere in July and will look like a giant hourglass.
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Record Broken: Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the…
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NASA Details Its Plan For The End Of The International Space Station In 2031
NASA says it plans to plunge the vestiges of the International Space Station into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean known as Point Nemo in early 2031, after passing the baton to commercial space stations.
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The James Webb Space Telescope is fully deployed. So what’s next for the biggest observatory off Earth?
On Saturday (Jan. 8), the new observatory, the largest space telescope ever built, successfully unfolded its final primary mirror segment to cap what NASA has billed as one of its most complicated deployments in space ever.