by rmil2k | Oct 3, 2023 | News
Light trails from the Bluewalker 3 craft streak across the sky over Kitt Peak National Observatory in this composite photo. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/IAU/SKAO/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks The night sky is changing with the stunning growth in commercial satellites — and one of the...
by rmil2k | Oct 3, 2023 | News
The ongoing saga of the New Horizons mission—will it get truncated and its science team disbanded?—may have some resolution. Dr. Nicky Fox, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters announced last Friday that mission operations...
by rmil2k | Oct 2, 2023 | News
Science & Exploration 02/10/2023 22220 views 105 likes New images of the Orion Nebula from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have been included in ESA’s ESASky application, which has a user-friendly interface to visualise and download astronomical data....
by rmil2k | Oct 2, 2023 | News
Europe’s next launch will send a trio of CubeSats to Earth’s orbit that mimic birds flying in formation.The endeavor, dubbed Advanced Nanosatellite Systems for Earth-observation Research, or ANSER, consists of three shoebox-sized satellites that will monitor...
by rmil2k | Oct 2, 2023 | News
During an annular solar eclipse, the Moon appears too small to completely cover the Sun. This shot of the Oct. 3, 2005, eclipse shows prominences at the Sun’s edge. Credit: Stefan Seip – www.photomeeting.de An annular eclipse of the Sun on Oct. 14 is the big...
