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Posted - 8 years 4 months ago
An eclipse is the serendipitous alignment of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun. Around every 18 months or so, the Moon passes directly between the Earth and the Sun on its orbit around our planet. Its a relatively rare occurrence because the Moon doesnt orbit in the same plane as the Earth and Sun. But when the three bodies line up just right, the Moon covers up the disc of the Sun, and those in the direct path of the Moons shadow called the path of totality will see the Sun go dark. Freebie Link
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The GhanaSat-1Ghanas first satellitebuilt by a Ghanaian engineering team at All Nations University, was delivered to NASAs International Space Station in June on a SpaceX rocket that took off from pad 39a at Kennedy Space Center, a NASA spokesperson confirmed. The GhanaSat-1 deployed into orbit from the Center in July, and is now operational, according to project manager Richard Damoah, a Ghanaian professor and assistant research scientist at NASA. Freebie Link
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China has used the Sunway TaihuLight, the world's most powerful supercomputer, to simulate "the birth and early expansion of the Universe" using 10 trillion digital particles. The work has reportedly been completed by the National Supercomputer Centre in Wuxi, and involved computer scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. The supercomputer used 10 million CPU cores to create the universe known as N-body simulation and involved breaking the universe's mass down into particles. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 4 months ago
A group of scientists is taking to the skies to chase the shadow of the moon during the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21 from the unique vantage point of two retrofitted WB-57F jet planes. Amir Caspi, a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and his team will soar 50,000 feet over Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee in jets outfitted with high-tech telescopes. At this altitude, the telescopes mounted on the noses of the planes will be able to capture a clear view of the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere, or the corona; they may also capture thermal images of Mercury, a planet typically obscured by the bright glare from the sun. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 4 months ago
This is Mars 2030, a VR experience of the Red Planet produced by Fusion Media Group in partnership with NASA and MITs AeroAstro Lab. Mars 2030 allows you to wander around 15 square miles of Martian landscape. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 4 months ago
The Moon has more water than previously thought, and its deep below the lunar surface. A new study suggests that water is widespread beyond the poles, where it was already known to exist, although scientists dont know exactly how much water is there. The discovery has consequences for future missions to the Moon. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 4 months ago
A team of astronomers has potentially discovered the first known moon beyond the Solar System. If confirmed, the "exomoon" is likely to be about the size and mass of Neptune, and circles a planet the size of Jupiter but with 10 times the mass. The signal was detected by Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope; astronomers now plan to carry out follow-up observations with Hubble in October. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 4 months ago
We are very excited to announce Solar Eclipse by Redshift - observe and marvel at the upcoming August 2017 solar eclipse using our brand new app! Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 4 months ago
Steps forward in the search for life beyond Earth can be as simple as sending a balloon into the sky. In one of the most unique and extensive eclipse observation campaigns ever attempted, NASA is collaborating with student teams across the U.S. to do just that. A larger initiative, NASA's Eclipse Balloon Project, led by Angela Des Jardins of Montana State University, is sending more than 50 high-altitude balloons launched by student teams across the U.S. to livestream aerial footage of the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse from the edge of space to NASAs website. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 4 months ago
Up to half the matter in our Milky Way may come from distant galaxies up to one million light years away, making us 'extragalactic immigrants', according to astrophysicists from Northwestern University. The research, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, could completely transform our understanding of how galaxies formed after the Big Bang. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 4 months ago
Fistful of Stars is a five minute-long virtual reality experience that takes the viewer on a tour through the vast star-forming region known as the Orion Nebula. Its hauntingly beautiful images, accompanied by The Hubble Cantatawhich includes a 30 piece ensemble, a 100 person choir, and two singers from the Metropolitan Operagives the film a 2001 feel without the murderous robots. Its a combination of science and magical realism, director Eliza McNitt told Gizmodo. We wanted to give users the feeling as if they were a star floating on stellar winds through the Orion Nebula. That could take billions of years but we wanted to give you the experience of that spectacular journey through five minutes. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 4 months ago
The Android version of our brand new app Solar Eclipse has just gone live on Google Play Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 4 months ago
Great news! Redshift Pro will be available for the price of the standard version (9,99 , 8.99 US$, 8.99 ) from now until Sunday. The In-App purchase (upgrade from Standard to Pro) will be reduced as well (5,49 , 4.99 US$, 4.99 ).
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Posted - 8 years 4 months ago
When astronomers discovered a strange pattern of light near a distant star called KIC 8462852 back in October, it was like nothing anyone had observed before. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 4 months ago
Freebie Link share a great photo of a prominence at the edge of the sun, a splendid view of solar plasma as it churned and streamed over less than one day (June 25-26, 2017). The charged particles of plasma were being manipulated by strong magnetic forces.
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Posted - 8 years 5 months ago
Virgin Galactic is resuming powered tests of its spaceplane after a tragic accident with its test vehicle SpaceShipTwo resulted in the death of co-pilot Michael Alsbury in 2014. The news comes via Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson, who shared the news speaking to Bloomberg. After current glide-only tests wrap up, powered tests will begin at a pace of one every three weeks, reaching higher altitudes until eventually climbing to the edge of space by November or December of this year. If all goes well, Branson himself is set to be among the first tourists to space in 2018 around mid-year, and then by the end of 2018 he hopes to begin offering full commercial flights for paying passengers. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 5 months ago
Pathfinder landed on Mars on July 4, 1997, carrying Sojourner, the first rover to explore the Red Planet. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 5 months ago
Happy aphelion! Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 5 months ago
SpaceX will look to continue its high launch cadence later on Sunday with its third mission in just nine days, and fourth in a month. For the launch, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will attempt to deliver the Intelsat 35e communications satellite to geostationary transfer orbit. The launch window opens at 7:36pm ET (00:36am UK) and spans 58 minutes. The primary concern is weather, with just a 40 percent chance of favorable conditions at launch time. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 5 months ago
It might seem an unfathomably large distance, but in the scale of the Universe, 24 light years is a mere stones throw. Now, two supermassive black holeshave been spotted circling each other at this distance, marking a closer pairing than ever seen before. A black hole binary system consists of two black holes orbiting each other, driven by their respective gravitational pulls. For the first time, astronomers have been able to make out both objects in this kind of system, using a collection of telescopes called the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 5 months ago
Mars, at least as far as we know, is a planet populated entirely by robots. Our efforts to make them more autonomous and explore the rocky surface on their own have been successful. In turn, these bots can teach us more about our closest neighbour in the Solar System. Software installed upon the Curiosity Rover, which helps to control its laser, has made it more efficient at self-selecting rocks and objects to study. The system, called Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS), has allowed the robot to pick and examine rocks on its own correctly 93 per cent of the time. It is able to work in a precision pointing mode and a rock selecting mode. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 5 months ago
Ten potentially habitable worlds have been announced today by Nasa. They are part of a group of 219 exoplanets revealed by the space agency in its eighth Kepler planet catalogue. The ten planets are Earth-sized and in the habitable zone of their stars. This means they are at just the right distance for liquid water to exist on their surfaces. Just under half of these are orbiting G dwarf stars stars the same size as our Sun. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 5 months ago
Back in October 2015 astronomers announced they had detected a strange signal that stood a remote chance of being a vast extraterrestrial construction - dubbed the alien megastructure. It was discovered using Nasas Kepler Space Telescope, which was designed to look for the slight drop in light caused when a planet passes in front of its star. In this case, the telescope gave astronomers much more than they bargained for. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 6 months ago
When searching for alien life, astronomers often look to individual exoplanets, but the stars they orbit are equally important. Now, astronomers have found traces of chemicals that make up the basic ingredients needed for life in early Sun-like stars, suggesting the building blocks of life on Earth could have originated from our own star. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 6 months ago
We know there are frozen bodies of water in Mars, that may have had the potential to be liquid oceans at some point. Now, geographers from the Northern Illinois University have estimated just how much water could have filled those oceans by studying the planets topography. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 6 months ago
The first close-up observations from Nasas Juno spacecraft have captured towering clouds, swirling cyclones and dramatic flows of ammonia that drive giant weather systems on the largest planet in the solar system. The $1.1bn probe swung into orbit around Jupiter in July last year on a mission to peer through the thick clouds that shroud the planet and learn how the alien world, and ultimately all of the planets in the solar system, formed around the nascent sun 4.5bn years ago. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 6 months ago
Two NASA astronauts switched their spacesuits to battery power this morning at 7:20 a.m., EDT aboard the International Space Station to begin a spacewalk planned to last about 2.5 hours. Expedition 51 Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer will replace a critical computer relay box.
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Posted - 8 years 6 months ago
On Friday, 19 May, Tabbys star began to dim, carrying on a history of mysterious dips in brightness. Astronomers are scrambling to point as many telescopes as possible at the star, which is 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, to decipher its strange signal. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 6 months ago
Our Universe could be one of an infinite number of Universes, and, in its early stages, might have collided with one of these other worlds, according to a recent discovery. A mysterious cold spot in the Universe is not caused by a massive void, according to a recent paper. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 6 months ago
The nascent off-Earth manufacturing industry is getting set to take its next big steps. Made In Space, the California-based company that owns and operates the commercial 3D printer aboard the International Space Station (ISS), is developing new technology, called Archinaut, that's designed to enable the assembly of large structures in the final frontier. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 6 months ago
Expedition 51 Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA concluded the 200th ISS spacewalk at 1:21 p.m. EDT. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 7 months ago
Researchers have formed the clearest picture yet of massive explosions that controlled the creation of galaxies, including our own, and continue to influence star formation today. The findings confirm a long-held theory about the after-effects of these spectacular explosions called supernovae, and how they slow down the formation process. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 7 months ago
The record-shattering mission of the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane is finally over. After circling Earth for an unprecedented 718 days, the X-37B touched down Sunday (May 7) at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida the first landing at the SLF since the final space shuttle mission came back to Earth in July 2011. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 7 months ago
Amazing imagery from Cassini Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 7 months ago
Adam Makarenko wants to change the way we look at space so he creates miniature exoplanets in his living room in Toronto, Canada. Makarenko, 43, has been creating models since 2006 and began building exoplanets in 2016. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 7 months ago
A newly discovered exoplanet is causing excitement among astronomers as it has the potential to give us the best opportunity ever to find alien life. The 'super-Earth', which is around 1.4 times the size of Earth but seven times its mass, is rocky, temperate and orbits a quiet star in our galactic neighbourhood. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 7 months ago
The first sighting of a halo of hydrogen wafting around the Milky Way has been revealed today. It was thought our galaxy had this kind of halo of diffuse gas, based on what we knew about other galaxies, but it had never been directly observed until now. Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are made up of a central bulge surrounded by a disk and spiral arms, but these only make up a tiny part of its mass. It is thought the bulk of the missing mass is made up of dark matter, which does not interact with light so cannot be seen. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 7 months ago
Two veteran NASA missions are providing new details about icy, ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, further heightening the scientific interest of these and other "ocean worlds" in our solar system and beyond. The findings are presented in papers published Thursday by researchers with NASAs Cassini mission to Saturn and Hubble Space Telescope. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 7 months ago
Later today, Nasa will be making an announcement about the presence of oceans in our Solar System. While little detail has been given, Nasa has said the mysterious news comes from data gathered by the Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble space telescope. The full announcement will be made at 19:00 BST (14:00 EDT). Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 8 months ago
Most scientific papers on the discovery of new galaxies are notable because they find something out of the ordinary. Now, a new galaxy has been discovered which is special because it is so average. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 8 months ago
About four billion years ago, Mars was warm. Water flowed in lakes and rivers under a nice thick blanket of atmosphere. But then something cataclysmic happened. Mars' insulating atmosphere all but disappeared. Exposed to the harsh elements of space, the red planet became the dry, frozen wasteland that it is today. Until now, this missing atmosphere had baffled scientists; was it lost in space, or did the Martian crust reabsorb it? New data from NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission is settling the debate. Bruce Jakowski and others on the MAVEN team have calculated that most of Mars' atmosphere blew away in the solar winds. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 8 months ago
The particles making up dark matter could be identified through gravitational waves, according to a recent study. The research, led by ina Arvanitaki at the Perimeter Institute and colleagues from Stanford and NYU, says the question about what the Universe is made of could be answered by using the Ligo detectors. These instruments were made famous last year when they saw gravitational waves for the first time, created by the merger of two black holes. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 8 months ago
Traditionally, rockets are one-use only - all the elements of the vehicle are discarded in getting a satellite payload into orbit. But SpaceX has become adept at landing its boosters safely back on Earth after a mission. Now, the firm is ready to put one of these "flight proven" vehicles on the launch pad again. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 8 months ago
The ExoMars mobile rover, tasked with recovering evidence of life on the Red Planet, will touch down in 2021 at one of two sites, scientists announced Wednesday. "After intense discussions, we have voted for the sites Oxia Planum and Mawrth Vallis," Frances Westhall, head of research at the Center for Molecular Biophysics in Orleans, France, told journalists. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 8 months ago
NASAS HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL Earth Observing-1 satellite mission was supposed to last just a year. It did that, and then survived 16 moreall the while testing NASAs riskiest, oddball ideas. Its been a proving ground for everything from multi- and hyperspectral imagers, to a self-piloting AI. But EO-1 is finally out of fuel, and at the end of the month the crafts operating team will close up shop. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 8 months ago
More than ten years ago, astronomers made a discovery that has puzzled them ever since supermassive black holes appeared to have popped up soon after the start of the Universe. It is thought to take billions of years for supermassive black holes to form, but at least 20 of them were spotted at the dawn of the Universe, just 800 million years after the Big Bang. A team of researchers from Dublin City University, Columbia University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Helsin...ki, have now used computer simulations to attempt to solve the mystery. The results, published today, say a black hole can grow quickly if the galaxy it is in stops forming stars.
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Posted - 8 years 9 months ago
Few things have so forcefully driven home the wonder, and fragility, of life as that iconic image of Earth set against the vast expanse of space. And so of course it appears among the 225 photos in Apollo VII XVII, the stunning photo book Dutch designer Simon Phillipson wrote with designers Floris Heyne, Joel Meter and Delano Steenmeijer. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 9 months ago
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's tiny moon, Pan, were taken on March 7, 2017, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The flyby had a close-approach distance of 24,572 kilometers (15,268 miles). These images are the closest images ever taken of Pan and will help to characterize its shape and geology. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 9 months ago
Astronomers have peered back more than 13 billion light years to find a huge mass of glowing stars the most distant galaxy ever found to contain cosmic dust. The discovery gives us a completely new look at when the very first stars were 'born' and could reveal more about how the Universe expanded. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 9 months ago
Speaking at the Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop conference in Washington, director of Nasas Planetary Science Division James Green said scientists from the space agency have proposed a plan to shield Mars from the Suns rays through an artificial magnetic field around the planet. Without a protective magnetic field, anyone living on the Red Planet would have to protect themselves from the harmful radiation from the Sun that we, on Earth, are shielded from. Green described the idea as involving a magnetic shield launched in a stable orbit between Mars and the Sun. It would be made of a large electric circuit powerful enough to generate an artificial magnetic field. Freebie Link
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