by rmil2k | Mar 3, 2023 | News
[ad_1] A collage of 10 images taken between Feb. 21 and March 2, 2023 showing the movements of Jupiter and Venus as they approach conjunction. (Image credit: Soumyadeep Mukherjee) Venus and Jupiter have put on quite a show for skywatchers in recent weeks.The two...
by rmil2k | Mar 3, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Since the 1930s, physicists and radio engineer Karl Jansky reported discovering a persistent radio source coming from the center of our galaxy. This source came to be known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), and by the 1970s, astronomers determined that it was a...
by rmil2k | Mar 2, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Ariane 5 parts are coming together in the launch vehicle integration building (BIL) at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana in preparation for the launch of ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice). In this picture, the rocket’s central core is being hoisted...
by rmil2k | Mar 2, 2023 | News
[ad_1] There’s something special about sunset launches.On Monday (Feb. 27), a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying the first batch of second-generation Starlink internet satellites to orbit.The milestone...
by rmil2k | Mar 2, 2023 | News
[ad_1] heic2302 — Photo Release 1 March 2023 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of rapid changes to the asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by a 545-kilogram spacecraft on 26 September 2022. The primary objective of the NASA...
