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Posted - 9 years 2 months ago
For the second year in succession, this months full moon is eclipsed. A year ago Britain enjoyed the whole of a dramatic total eclipse, but this time we must be content with a less spectacular penumbral one which is already underway at moonrise (and sunset) on 16 September. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
After years of construction and months of rigorous testing, NASA's asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft is ready to take off from Cape Canaveral this Thursday, September 8th at 7pm ET. After it leaves the atmosphere on an Atlas V rocket, the spacecraft will take two years to reach its destination, a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. Upon arrival in 2018, OSIRIS will begin an multi-year mission of mapping the 1,650-foot asteroid and bringing home a scoop of carbon-rich space rocks, which researchers believe may hold 4.5 billion-year-old leftovers from the beginning of the solar system and some of the basic building blocks of life. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
In a final twist to a love story of galactic proportions, the long-missing Philae lander has been found by its companion satellite, Rosetta. Images from the Rosetta probe show the tiny lander wedged between some rocks on the icy comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The discovery comes barely a month after the Philae lander tweeted a heartbreaking final farewell to the world. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
NEWS The final release date for the brand new Android version of the Redshift Planetarium app on the Google Play store is September 14th!
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
NASAs Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiters north pole, taken during the spacecrafts first flyby of the planet with its instruments switched on. The images show storm systems and weather activity unlike anything previously seen on any of our solar systems gas-giant planets. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
NASA's Juno mission successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter today. The time of closest approach with the gas-giant world was 6:44 a.m. PDT (9:44 a.m. EDT, 13:44 UTC) when Juno passed about 2,600 miles (4,200 kilometers) above Jupiter's swirling clouds. At the time, Juno was traveling at 130,000 mph (208,000 kilometers per hour) with respect to the planet. This flyby was the closest Juno will get to Jupiter during its prime mission. "Early post-flyby telemetry indicates that everything worked as planned and Juno is firing on all cylinders," said Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
Six scientists have completed a year-long simulation of a Mars mission, during which they lived in a dome in near-isolation. The group lived in the dome on a Mauna Loa mountain in Hawaii and were only allowed to go outside if wearing spacesuits. On Sunday the simulation ended and the scientists emerged. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
A potentially Earth-like planet has been discovered orbiting a star located right next door to the sun. Should humanity try to send a probe there as soon as possible? The newly discovered planet, known as Proxima b, orbits the star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun. Proxima Centauri is about 4.22 light-years or 25 trillion miles (40 trillion kilometers) from Earth. That's a daunting distance. But an initiative announced earlier this year aims to send superfast miniature probes to Proxima Centauri, on a journey that would take about 20 years. With the discovery of Proxima b, the founders of that initiative are even more eager to get going. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
This Saturday at 5:51 a.m. PDT, (8:51 a.m. EDT, 12:51 UTC) NASA's Juno spacecraft will get closer to the cloud tops of Jupiter than at any other time during its prime mission. At the moment of closest approach, Juno will be about 2,500 miles (4,200 kilometers) above Jupiter's swirling clouds and traveling at 130,000 mph (208,000 kilometers per hour) with respect to the planet. There are 35 more close flybys of Jupiter scheduled during its prime mission (scheduled to end in February of 2018). The Aug. 27 flyby will be the first time Juno will have its entire suite of science instruments activated and looking at the giant planet as the spacecraft zooms past. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
SpaceX plans to lease one building and construct a newer second building at Port Canaveral, just two miles from where it launches its Falcon 9 rockets from the Cape Canaveral space pad, port chief John Murray tells Flordia Today. The company plans on leasing the former 52,000 square foot Spacehab building, which used to belong to the aerospace company now called Astrotech Corporation. The new building will be constructed nearby. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
On Aug. 21, 2016, contact was reestablished with one of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories, known as the STEREO-B spacecraft, after communications were lost on Oct. 1, 2014. Over 22 months, the STEREO team has worked to attempt contact with the spacecraft. Most recently, they have attempted a monthly recovery operation using NASA's Deep Space Network, or DSN, which tracks and communicates with missions throughout space. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
Due to pervasive light pollution glare from excessive, misaimed and unshielded night lighting 80% of Europe and North America no longer experiences real darkness. For anyone living near a major metropolis, a satellite image of the Milky Way seems abstract we understand it to be a document of something true, but our understanding is purely theoretical. In 1994, after a predawn earthquake cut power to most of Los Angeles, the Griffith Observatory received phone calls from spooked residents asking about the strange sky. What those callers were seeing were stars. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
NASA launches a new public access portal aptly named the NASA-Funded Research Results portal on Freebie Link It reflects the agencys ongoing commitment to providing broad public access to science data.
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth. The mission will help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will travel to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and bring a sample back to Earth for intensive study. Launch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 8 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
The last time we had an outburst, that is a meteor shower with more meteors than usual, was in 2009. This years Perseid meteor shower is peaking at the moment! Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
We have some great news for you all - as per popular demand, we have developed a brand new Android version of the Redshift Planetarium app which is due to launch on Wednesday September 7th! Keep your eyes open for more updates closer to the date.
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Posted - 9 years 3 months ago
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found deep, steep-sided canyons on Saturn's moon Titan that are flooded with liquid hydrocarbons. The finding represents the first direct evidence of the presence of liquid-filled channels on Titan, as well as the first observation of canyons hundreds of meters deep. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 4 months ago
SpaceX appears to have taken a significant step forward with the development of a key component of its Mars mission architecture. According to multiple reports, during the Small Satellite Conference Tuesday in Logan, Utah, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said the company has shipped a Raptor engine to its test site in MacGregor, Texas. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 4 months ago
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's private spaceflight company, SpaceX, is another step closer to making its Falcon 9 rockets fully reusable. On July 28, the company released this video of its first test firing of a used Falcon 9 rocket stage, one that already launched and landed during a mission in May. The burn lasted for about 2 minutes and 30 seconds, and a brief description of the video said the test was "full duration." Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 4 months ago
NASA estimates that SpaceX is spending on the order of $300 million on its Red Dragon Mars lander mission, a down payment on the companys long-term ambitions for human Mars missions. At a meeting of the NASA Advisory Councils technology committee in Cleveland July 26, Jim Reuter, deputy associate administrator for programs in NASAs space technology mission directorate, provided an overview of NASAs agreement with SpaceX, announced in April, to support that companys plans for an uncrewed Mars landing mission that could launch as soon as May 2018. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 4 months ago
Jupiter's famous red spot may actually provide the energy that heats the planet's upper atmosphere to incredibly high temperatures claims a new study. As the largest planet in our Solar System, Jupiter is five times further away from the Sun than Earth and yet its temperatures are similar to those found above our home planet. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 4 months ago
After almost two years of extreme highs and devastating lows, the Philae lander bids its final farewell tomorrow. At 10am BST on July 27, the Electrical Support System Processor Unit (ESS) on Rosetta will be switched off. The ESS is used to communicate between Rosetta and its lander. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 4 months ago
Astronomers used NASAs Hubble Space Telescope to conduct the first atmospheric study of Earth-sized exoplanets and found evidence to suggest that two could be habitable. The planets have astronomers excited because atmospheric analysis revealed that theyre likely to be rocky worlds, the type of planet necessary to host life as we know it. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 4 months ago
Scientists unearth two rocky planets in 'habitable zone' of their star Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 4 months ago
The American space agency's new Juno mission to Jupiter has returned its first imagery since going into orbit around the gas giant last week. The picture shows a sunlit portion of the planet, together with three of its big moons - Io, Europa and Ganymede. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 4 months ago
A NASA camera on board the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a rare lunar transit across the face of a sunlit Earth. The images, which feature a fully lit far side of the moon, were captured between July 4 at 11:50 pm ET and July 5 at 3:18 am ET. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 5 months ago
A three-member multinational crew have arrived on the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 5 months ago
From the last gasp of a failed satellite comes a brief glimpse of galaxies far, far away. Before it broke in March, one month after launch, Japans Hitomi X-ray satellite managed to gaze at the Perseus galaxy cluster one of the Universe's most massive objects, 250 million light-years from Earth. And researchers discovered that superheated gas at the cluster's heart flows much more placidly than expected. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 5 months ago
NASAs Juno spacecraft has successfully entered Jupiters orbit, bringing it closer to the planet than any probe has come so far. The vehicle reached the gas giants north pole this evening, and NASA received confirmation that the vehicle had turned on its main engine at 11:18PM ET. The engine burned for 35 minutes, helping to slow the spacecraft down enough so that it was captured by Jupiters gravitational pull. NASA confirmed that the burn was successful at around 11:53PM ET and that Juno was in its intended 53-day orbit. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 5 months ago
The countdown to the destruction of the European Space Agencys Rosetta spacecraft has begun. The probe, which has been orbiting around a comet since the end of 2014, will make a controlled descent and crash into its rocky companion on September 30th. The spacecrafts destruction will mark the end of the Rosetta mission, which has spanned the last 12 years. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 5 months ago
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Posted - 9 years 5 months ago
Today, NASA test-fired its Solid Rocket Booster engine, part of the rocket that NASA hopes will one day take humans to Mars. This marks the last test of the booster before its first scheduled flight in 2018, and probably our only chance to see these massive rockets fire while staying on the ground. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 5 months ago
Freebie Link wants to soar beyond suborbital space, and Jeff Bezos has now announced that the company has broken ground on a new facility in Florida. There, Blue Origin will manufacture, process, integrate and test its orbital launch vehicle, which Bezos has previously referred to unofficially as "Very Big Brother."
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Posted - 9 years 5 months ago
Chemicals found in Martian rocks suggest the Red Planet once had more oxygen in its atmosphere than it does now. Researchers found high levels of manganese oxides by using a laser-firing instrument on Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover. This higher oxygen level can be linked to a time when groundwater was present in the planet's Gale Crater where the rover is based, and it adds to other Curiosity findings such as evidence of ancient lakes revealing how Earth-like our neighbouring planet once was. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 5 months ago
Freebie Link is rolling out fresh imagery from the Landsat 8 satellite using new processing techniques for sharper images than ever before. "Satellite images are often cloudy, but not always over the same place, so we looked at millions of images and took the clearest pixels to stitch together this cloud-free and seamless image."
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Posted - 9 years 5 months ago
Pluto probably has a liquid ocean sandwiched between a rocky core and an icy shell. When NASAs New Horizons spacecraft flew by the tiny world in July 2015, it captured the sharpest-ever images of the planets surface. That close-up helped Noah Hammond of Brown University in Rhode Island and colleagues show that Pluto never formed a bizarre phase of ice that would solidify its ocean for good. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 5 months ago
Tonight we have both summer solstice and full moon. This hasn't happened together in 67 years. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 5 months ago
Discovery of 'baby' planets sheds light on planet and solar system formation Freebie Link
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British astronaut Tim Peake's six-month mission aboard the International Space Station has ended with a bumpy landing on the Kazakh steppe. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 5 months ago
Member states of the European Space Agency have reaffirmed their commitment to launch a rover to Mars in 2020. Meeting in Paris, delegations agreed to put the project, which has experienced serial delays, on to a fresh schedule. They also injected an immediate extra sum of 77m (59m), which will keep the ExoMars robot in development while a full and final solution to its financial problems is sought. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 5 months ago
Astronaut Tim Peake's stunning photos of the Earth interactive map Freebie Link
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Understanding how fire spreads in a microgravity environment is critical to the safety of astronauts who live and work in space. And while NASA has conducted studies aboard the space shuttle and International Space Station, risks to the crew have forced these experiments to be limited in size and scope. Fire safety will be a critical element as NASA progresses on the journey to Mars and begins to investigate deep space habitats for long duration missions. The Spacecraft Fire Experiment (Saffire) is a three-part experiment that will be conducted over the course of three flights of Orbital ATKs Cygnus vehicle to investigate large-scale flame spread and material flammability limits in long duration microgravity. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 5 months ago
Mars needs YOU! In the future, Mars will need all kinds of explorers, farmers, surveyors, teachers . . . but most of all YOU! Join Freebie Link on the Journey to Mars as they explore with robots and send humans there one day.
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Posted - 9 years 6 months ago
Milky Way no longer visible to one third of humanity, light pollution atlas shows Freebie Link
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Plan to Turn Asteroids Into Spaceships Could Spur Off-Earth Mining Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 6 months ago
Using the Freebie Link , astronomers found that universe is expanding 5-9% faster than expected.
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Posted - 9 years 6 months ago
Like a cosmic lava lamp, a large section of Plutos icy surface is being constantly renewed by a process called convection that replace older surface ices with fresher material. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 6 months ago
In 2016, Mars will appear brightest from May 18-June 3. Its closest approach to Earth is May 30. You don't need a telescope to see Mars. Just look to the South - Southeast at sunset, south at midnight, southwest in hours before dawn. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 6 months ago
A Russian rocket company has announced that it's working on a space taxi that'll shuttle crews from the ISS down to the moon. The plans were announced at an international conference on space exploration just outside Moscow and reported by Russia Today. The craft, provisionally named Ryvok, would be permanently docked on the ISS -- or its replacement -- transporting cargo and crews to the lunar surface. Each flight would be powered by fuel in an "accelerator block," brought up from Earth on the back of a Russian rocket. The report explains that it's likely to be the Angara A5, a heavy-lift vehicle that's intended to replace the trusty old Soyuz. Freebie Link
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Posted - 9 years 6 months ago
Freebie Link Solar System Things to Know This Week
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