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Posted - 8 years 9 months ago
Freebie Link share a great video of the annular solar eclipse took place over South America and Africa.
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Posted - 8 years 9 months ago
A link between the amount of material that can be seen spewing out of a black hole, and the brightness of the black hole itself has been identified for the first time. Michael Parker from Cambridge University was studying distant galaxies to learn about a poorly understood phenomenon of black holes when he stumbled across this unique feature around the active galactic nuclei AGN IRAS 132243809. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 9 months ago
Anybody who longs to see an alien world up close got an exciting gift last year. In August, researchers reported the discovery of a potentially habitable, Earth-sized planet orbiting the Suns closest stellar neighbour Proxima Centauri, a mere 1.3 parsecs, or 4.22 light years, away. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 9 months ago
At the heart of our galaxy, a vast black hole is devouring matter from the dust clouds that surround it. Little by little, expanses of interstellar material are being swallowed up by this voracious galactic carnivore that, in the process, has reached a mass that is 4m times that of our sun. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 9 months ago
Freebie Link Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water. The discovery sets a new record for greatest number of habitable-zone planets found around a single star outside our solar system. All of these seven planets could have liquid water key to life as we know it under the right atmospheric conditions, but the chances are highest with the three in the habitable zone.
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Posted - 8 years 9 months ago
SpaceX has launched the first private rocket from the same historic site that saw some of NASA's greatest space missions, then landed a booster nearby in a resounding success. The California-based company's Falcon 9 rocket launched a robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station today (Feb. 19) at 9:39 a.m. EST (1439 GMT) from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center the same pad that once hosted Apollo moon missions and space shuttle launches. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 9 months ago
Churchill ponders the conditions that make for a habitable world, and on considering the vast number of stars perhaps circled by alien planets, comes to the conclusion that the answer to the essays title question, Are We Alone in the Universe?, was surely a resounding no. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 9 months ago
A new dataset released by the Carnegie Institution for Science and MIT includes around 61,000 measurements of 1,600 nearby stars. The information, which was collected by Hawaiis W.M. Keck Observatory over the course of two decades, is being released in an effort to crowdsource the search for additional planets. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 10 months ago
Tim Peake, the first British astronaut to stay on the International Space Station (ISS), is heading back to space. In a surprise announcement during an event at the Science Museum, Peake revealed he would return to the ISS with the European Space Agency. The British astronaut only returned from orbit in June 2016. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 10 months ago
The commercial space industry pushes a particular brand of optimism. Its urge to inspire manifests as soaring soundtracks to three-minute mission-promo videos, press releases with words like humanity, and slick graphics of spacecraft that dont exist yet but could any day now. In the particular case of asteroid mining, business leaders are selling a future in which materials plucked from space rocks make up for Earths shortfalls and support a thriving civilization. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 10 months ago
NASAs Juno Spacecraft is currently orbiting Jupiter, taking some spectacular images as it studies the gas giants atmosphere. The spacecraft is making its next close pass to the planet on February 2nd, and the agency is asking the public to help it figure out where to point one of its cameras next. Juno will approach Jupiters North Pole and will swing south, ending the flyby below the South Pole and will take pictures using JunoCam, a visible-light camera. NASA noted that the spacecraft is limited by the amount of onboard data storage is has onboard, so it has to be picky with what it takes pictures of. The mission planners have opened up a voting system for the public to help select what pictures they will take, and will open up voting during upcoming flybys as well. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 10 months ago
On Saturday, SpaceX triumphantly returned to flight after an accident last September. The company launched 10 Iridium satellites into an orbit 625km above the Earth's surface, and, as a bonus, SpaceX also demonstrated its increasing mastery of rocket landings by bringing the first stage booster back to a drone ship off the California coast. SpaceX has now successfully landed seven rockets back on Earth. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 10 months ago
Astronomers studying a binary star system about 1,800 light years from the Sun say they are increasingly confident that the two stars will merge into a luminous red nova in about five years. At its brightest, the spectacular explosion produced by this nova could reach an apparent magnitude of about 2.0, akin to a bright star in the night sky, making it visible even from most urban areas. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 11 months ago
On December 30, the White House quietly released its Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy, a 25-page document outlining the United States plans in the event that a giant asteroid is found to be on a collision course with Earth. Among the priorities outlined by the strategy are improving Near-Earth Object (NEO) detection, developing methods for deflecting asteroids, and developing interagency emergency procedures in the event of an NEO impact. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 11 months ago
Asteroids are some of the last unexplored territories in the solar system. To help fill in some of the blanks, NASA just announced two upcoming missions that will visit new types of asteroids in the 2030s. Launching in 2023, the Psyche spacecraft will fly into the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to explore an asteroid quite unlike the balls of mud, ice, and rock we've studied before; "16 Psyche" is a giant hunk of metal. Measuring 130 miles in diameter, it's thought to be made of iron and nickel. 16 Psyche may be the leftover core of a protoplanetan infant world as large as Mars. Violent collisions are thought to have blasted away its rocky outer layers, leaving behind an asteroid very similar to Earth's own metallic core.
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Posted - 8 years 11 months ago
New Horizons continues to deliver the goods. Having sent back all of the data collected during its Pluto flyby in 2015, the spacecraft is still speeding along at a velocity of 14.32 kilometers per second relative to the Sun. That has allowed it to travel almost halfway between Pluto and its next target, a small Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69. By last Sunday, in fact, it had come to within two years of its flyby dateJanuary 1, 2019. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 11 months ago
The best observatory in the world is arguably divided among three sites in northern ChileLa Silla, Paranal, and Chajnantor. Each location in the high, arid Atacama desert offers excellent dark and clear skies for the European Southern Observatory's suite of telescopes. At 2,635 meters in elevation Paranal boasts the best instruments, with four 8.2-meter telescopes combining to make up the Very Large Telescope. Such an observatory also fulfills another, more human purpose. Outside of our light-polluted cities (and even countrysides in developed countries), the dark skies above the Atacama offer perspective on Earth's minuscule corner of the observable Universe. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 11 months ago
Happy new year and our best wishes for 2017!
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Posted - 8 years 11 months ago
Water ice has been found on the dwarf planet Ceres, data from Nasa's Dawn spacecraft has revealed. The discovery of the ice makes Ceres the third planetary body to have the substance within our solar system, after the Moon and Mercury. Freebie Link
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Posted - 8 years 11 months ago
We have some exciting news. We have an update for our iOS app going live tomorrow! The standard version will get some new features and the opportunity to update from Redshift to Redshift Pro with an In App Purchase. These are the new Redshift features (update 3.0):... - Lunar/planetary gazetteers - 3D-model of the Milky Way galaxy - Extended Todays Sky panel (visibility of space stations, events in the sky and weather tonight) - Notification about todays events at startup - Dictionary of Astronomy - In-App Purchase Upgrade to Redshift Pro Redshift Pro will also be updated and will then be available in the same 10 languages as Redshift standard (update 1.1) - Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese localisations - Access to the GAIA DR1 online catalog of 1.1 billion stars - 3D-area of stars from the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 catalogs in the Milky Way galaxy
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Posted - 9 years 1 day ago
This movie, based on images taken by ESAs Mars Express, highlights Mawrth Vallis, a 600 km-long, 2 km-deep outflow channel at the boundary of the southern highlands and the northern lowlands of Mars. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 1 day ago
John Glenn, former astronaut and US senator for almost quarter of a century, has died in Ohio aged 95. Glenn became a national hero in 1962 when he became the first American to orbit the Earth, one year after the Soviet Union had sent their own man into orbit, Yuri Gagarin. Glenn was the third US astronaut in space and the first American in orbit, circling the Earth three times. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 4 days ago
Hyperion, one of Saturn's small moons, orbits the planet in such a chaotic manner that it's impossible to predict. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 1 week ago
An uncrewed Russian spacecraft meant to resupply the International Space Station has been lost. Roscosmos, Russias space agency, says that communication with the spacecraft ended 382 seconds into the flight. The third stage of the Soyuz rocket, which helps propel the cargo ship to its final orbit, reportedly shut down earlier than planned according to NASAs live broadcast of the mission. The Progress MS-04 spacecraft never made it into proper orbit without that full third stage burn. Instead, gravity took hold and it burned up in the Earths atmosphere sometime in the hours after the 9:51AM ET launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Reports of explosions and fireballs in the sky of Tuva, Russia around the same time. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 1 week ago
NASA offers live HD Earth viewing from the International Space Station - go full screen, sit back, watch and enjoy our home planet. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 2 weeks ago
International Astronomical Union formally approves 227 star names Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 2 weeks ago
A cauliflower-shaped structure on Mars has some researchers scratching their heads and others wondering if it could have been created by martian microbes. The Spirit rover discovered pieces of a mineral called opaline silica on Mars in 2007 in the Gusev crater. The silica is commonly seen in nodular masses that look like cauliflower sprouting out of the ground. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 3 weeks ago
The most spectacular supermoon since 1948 will light up the sky, appearing 14 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter than usual. The event on Monday November 14 - described as "undeniably beautiful" by American space agency Nasa - is the result of the moon coming closer to Earth than it has done for 69 years. Nothing will match it until the moon makes a similar approach on November 25 2034.... At 11.23am UK time on Monday, the gap between the Earth and the moon will close to its shortest point, known as "perigee" - a distance of 221,525 miles (356,510 km). Sky watchers in the UK will have to wait a little longer before the full moon emerges in all its glory shortly before 5pm.
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Posted - 9 years 1 month ago
Executive producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer previously worked together on Apollo 13, A Brilliant Mind, and From Earth to the Moon. We caught up with them to chat about why Mars captured their attention, and how it felt to make a documentary about the future instead of the past.
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Posted - 9 years 1 month ago
Just when you thought our planet had enough doomsday problems to grapple with, Saturn went ahead and changed colors on us. Specifically, Saturns north polea hexagonal vortex that Gizmodo claims could swallow our planet whole. While no one knows for certain how Saturns north pole came to be this way, scientists have been tracking its shifting hue thanks to the Cassini Imaging Team, a probe that has been circling the planet since 2004. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 1 month ago
If you step outside on November 14, you might notice the moon is looking bigger and brighter than usual. Bigger in fact, than it has appeared at any point in the last 68 years, say scientists. This month's supermoon, the penultimate of the year, will be the biggest so far of the 21st century. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 1 month ago
The director general of the European Space Agency, a German civil engineer named Johann-Dietrich Woerner, has for more than a year engaged in a charm offensive to unite the primary spacefaring nations. The goal? Creating a village on the Moon. Woerner has pressed his case for the Moon even as his agencys closest ally, NASA and President Obama, have pushed for a human Journey to Mars. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 1 month ago
After more than 20 years of construction, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is complete and, following in-depth testing, the largest-ever space telescope is expected to launch within two years, NASA officials announced. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 1 month ago
Happy Halloween! Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 1 month ago
The Starliner is one of two spacecraft in development in partnership with NASA's Commercial Crew Program that will enable astronauts to fly to the International Space Station on a new generation of spacecraft made in America and launching from Florida's Space Coast. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 1 month ago
It travelled half a billion kilometres across the solar system, deployed its parachute flawlessly and survived a scorching descent through the Martian atmosphere, but the European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed that its ExoMars lander was lost just one minute before it touched down on the surface of the red planet. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 1 month ago
The European Space Agency (Esa) is getting ready to put a probe on Mars. Its Schiaparelli robot will attempt the risky descent to the surface in the coming hours, after a 500 million km journey from Earth. The touchdown is regarded as a dress rehearsal for a much more important venture in four years' time when Esa will bid to place a very expensive rover on the planet. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 1 month ago
Chinas Shenzhou 11 manned spacecraft has successfully docked with the space lab, where two astronauts will now spend 30 days. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 1 month ago
China will launch a two-man space mission, Shenzhou 11, on Monday, officials with the space program said, taking the country closer to its ambition of setting up a permanent manned space station by 2022. After Monday's launch at 7:30 a.m. (2330 GMT) in the remote northwestern province of Gansu, the astronauts will dock with the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, where they will spend about a month. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 2 months ago
Great balls of fire! NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star. The plasma balls are zooming so fast through space it would take only 30 minutes for them to travel from Earth to the moon. This stellar "cannon fire" has continued once every 8.5 years for at least the past 400 years, astronomers estimate. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 2 months ago
NASA photos reveal only minor space centre damage from Hurricane Matthew Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 2 months ago
MCC is different from most recent Mars cameras in that it has a very wide field of view, designed so that it is capable of imaging all of Mars' disk when the spacecraft is near the apoapsis of its highly elliptical orbit. It doesn't take crisp high-resolution views of Mars; instead, MCC's value lies in its ability to capture beautifully colored, regional views of the planet that can serve as context images for other missions' more detailed but much more narrowly focused pictures. Its detector is 2048 pixels square, so its images have plenty of pixels for print publication. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 2 months ago
A star known by the unassuming name of KIC 8462852 in the constellation Cygnus has been raising eyebrows both in and outside of the scientific community for the past year. In 2015 a team of astronomers announced that the star underwent a series of very brief, non-periodic dimming events while it was being monitored by NASA's Kepler space telescope, and no one could quite figure out what caused them. A new study has deepened the mystery. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 2 months ago
Today's the day. The 12-year-long Rosetta mission will come to an end when the probe crashes into its companion comet, 67P. ESA has sent the final sequence of code to the spacecraft and it is expected to hit the comet shortly before midday today. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 2 months ago
Once Elon Musks SpaceX starts launching its Interplanetary Transport System (ITS) rockets to Mars, it will take 40 to 100 years to achieve a fully self-sustaining civilisation on the Red Planet, the entrepreneur has said. Speaking to the audience at the 67th International Astronautical Congress today, September 27, Musk estimated it would take this long to build a population of one million people. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 2 months ago
NASA will host a teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 26, to present new findings from images captured by the agencys Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiters icy moon, Europa. Astronomers will present results from a unique Europa observing campaign that resulted in surprising evidence of activity that may be related to the presence of a subsurface ocean on Europa. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 2 months ago
The first catalogue of more than a billion stars from ESAs Gaia satellite was published today the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date. On its way to assembling the most detailed 3D map ever made of our Milky Way galaxy, Gaia has pinned down the precise position on the sky and the brightness of 1142 million stars. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 2 months ago
Enjoy an introduction to the brand new Android app via these in-app screenshots
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Posted - 9 years 2 months ago
The brand new Android version of the Redshift Astronomy app is now available on Google Play! Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 2 months ago
The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the "Murray Buttes" region of lower Mount Sharp. The new images arguably rival photos taken in U.S. National Parks. Curiosity took the images with its Mast Camera (Mastcam) on Sept. 8. The rover team plans to assemble several large, color mosaics from the multitude of images taken at this location in the near future. Freebie Link
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