by rmil2k | Jan 23, 2024 | News
This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This nebula, known as N79, is a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionised, captured here by...
by rmil2k | Jan 23, 2024 | News
Virgin Galactic’s sixth commercial spaceflight may be just around the corner.The launch window for the crewed suborbital mission, known as Galactic 06, opens on Jan. 26. And, to help remind us of this fact and build up interest in the flight, Virgin Galactic...
by rmil2k | Jan 23, 2024 | News
Back to Article List Mars was once a much wetter world, with abundant water flowing across its surface. What happened to all that water? The Viking orbiters captured global imagery of Mars, from which this mosaic was produced. Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS Mars has always...
by rmil2k | Jan 23, 2024 | News
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx delivered its precious cargo to Earth on September 24th, 2023. The sample from asteroid Bennu is contained inside the spacecraft’s sampling head, and it’s in safe hands at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Two stubborn fasteners delayed the...
by rmil2k | Jan 22, 2024 | News
Science & Exploration 18/01/2024 3353 views 13 likes ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt from Sweden blasted into space tonight from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, at 21:49 GMT (22:49 CET, 16:49 local time). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Axiom...
