Normal day as a space reporter, just watching a video of a spacecraft flying through our sun and looking out at the Milky Way 🤯
(from the WISPR camera on the Parker Solar Probe)
Normal day as a space reporter, just watching a video of a spacecraft flying through our sun and looking out at the Milky Way 🤯
(from the WISPR camera on the Parker Solar Probe)
NASA test drove suitcase-sized rovers as part of a technology demonstration called Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Exploration (CADRE). The autonomous robots aren’t much bigger than a child’s remote-control car, but they will soon fly to the moon and map its surface. Live Science has more, including photos: https://flip.it/EGGozH
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For over two decades, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory — humanity's most powerful telescope of its kind — has provided astronomers with a better understanding of the structure and evolution of the universe. But stringent spending caps could force NASA to shut it down. Futurism has more: https://flip.it/OaulLn
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Thirty years after the first exoplanets were discovered, hundreds of additional exoplanets have been identified within the “habitable zone,” a place where liquid water and maybe even life may exist. The MIT Press Reader asks, could a self-sustaining starship carry humans to distant worlds? https://flip.it/0q093h
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On March 28, Earth was hit by a powerful solar flare that caused a radio blackout over the Pacific Ocean. Live Science has more on the explosion that came “on the heels of a double X-class flare that occurred Monday [March 25], triggering the most powerful geomagnetic storm on our planet in six years.” https://flip.it/Qcz25T
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People are selling chunks of SpaceX's exploded Starship on eBay.
Futurism reports that recovered ceramic heat shield tiles are being offered for thousands of dollars.
The Event Horizon Telescope has unveiled how Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, looks like in polarised light, which tells us a lot about the magnetic field around this monster.
The lines overlaid on the image below mark the orientation of the polarisation, from which astronomers can work out the structure of the magnetic field around the black hole.
More details: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2406/
📷 EHT Collaboration
Don’t miss your chance to see the cryovolcanic "devil comet."
@popsci has the details on Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which won’t be visible again until 2097.
Turns out you can do more than be a spectator during the total solar eclipse that will pass across much of North America on April 8. You can be a contributor to NASA research, too. The agency is asking people who live in the path of totality to partake in the SunSketcher program that aims to better understand the sun’s shape. More from Popular Science: https://flip.it/IYlozE
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Cosmic explosion will be visible to the naked eye in once-in-a-lifetime stargazing event.
NBC News reports: "The event, known as a nova, will be so bright that a 'new' star will seem to appear in the night sky temporarily, visible to the naked eye."
Are you planning a trip to see the solar eclipse on April 8? You may be on your way to becoming an umbraphile, a name for die-hard eclipse-chasers meaning “shadow lover.” Read about some of the most prolific eclipse chasers from USA Today, and find out where to go for the best chance to see the astronomical event.
Thomas P. Stafford, who took part in four space missions, has died at 93. Stafford retired as an Air Force three-star general and remained the agency’s go-to guy for independent advice on everything from human Mars missions to safety issues. “The most impressive sight, I think, that really changed your view of things is when you first see Earth,” Stafford once said about the view from lunar orbit. AP has more: https://flip.it/YMDk_Z
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Total solar eclipses, like the upcoming one slated for April 8, have fascinated and terrified people for centuries. But the events have more purposes than providing amusement or panic. Live Science tells us how total solar eclipses help researchers date mysterious events from ancient history. https://flip.it/.aWO-M
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What is the universe made out of? How should we define death? Where did dogs come from? Seventeen astounding scientific mysteries that researchers can’t yet solve, from Vox.com.
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"SpaceX came close to completing an hourlong test flight of its mega rocket on its third try Thursday, but the spacecraft was lost as it descended back to Earth."
AP reports: https://flip.it/Sc0xvu
"NASA is reaching across more than 15 billion miles to rescue its malfunctioning Voyager 1 probe — but this hallowed interstellar mission can’t live forever."
Scientific American reports: "After months of stress and unsuccessful answers they have managed to decode at least a portion of the spacecraft’s gobbledygook, allowing them to (maybe) find a way to see what it has been trying to say."
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SpaceX launches its massive Starship rocket in key third test flight.
@nbcnews reports: "The event is being closely watched because the nearly 400-foot-tall booster, known as Starship, is expected to play an important part in NASA’s return-to-the-moon program."
Japan's first commercial rocket explodes shortly after liftoff.
Space.com reports: "The 18-meter-long, four-stage Kairos solid rocket lifted off from Space Port Kii in Kushimoto, western Japan."
April’s total solar eclipse in North America is a month away. Here’s why it’s worth the watch and how to stay safe.
AP reports: "An estimated 44 million people live inside the 115-mile-wide (185-kilometer-wide) path of totality stretching from Mazatlán, Mexico to Newfoundland."
"Mars may be around 140 million miles away from Earth, but the red planet is influencing our deep oceans by helping drive 'giant whirlpools,' according to new research."
CNN reports on the research from Nature Communications journal: "The two planets affect each other through a phenomenon called 'resonance,' which is when two orbiting bodies apply a gravitational push and pull on each other — sometimes described as a kind of harmonization between distant planets."
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