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An artistic conception of the Milky Way, estimated to contain 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) stars. Credit: NASA/JPL. Why don’t numbers end? – Reyhane, age 7, Tehran, Iran Here’s a game: Ask a friend to give you any number and you’ll return one that’s bigger....
When I heard about this I felt an amused twinge of envy. Over the last year I have been using an unimpressive 4G broadband service and at best get 20 Mbps, NASA’s Psyche mission has STILL been getting 23 Mbps at 225 million km away! It’s all thanks to the...
Week in images: 22-26 April 2024 Discover our week through the lens Source link
Shaping an ambitious and steady space agenda for Europe requires not only diplomatic aplomb but also a firm grounding in science and engineering. Indeed, those attributes are must-haves in working with the 22 member states of the European Space Agency...
The beautiful spiral galaxy Messier 83, which our Milky Way may resemble. Credit: ESO. Astronomy was the basis of many key beliefs for the ancient Egyptians. They used skywatching to fix the dates of religious festivals, to predict the annual flooding of the...
During the Space Race, scientists in both the United States and the Soviet Union investigated the concept of ion propulsion. Like many early Space Age proposals, the concept was originally explored by luminaries like Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Hermann Oberth –...
Science & Exploration 27/04/2024 722 views 9 likes The first images captured by the innovative mission were presented at the 7th workshop of the Einstein Probe consortium in Beijing. They illustrate the satellite’s full potential and show that its novel...
Russia vetoed a United Nations resolution that was aimed at preventing a nuclear arms race in space.The resolution was sponsored by the United States and Japan and called upon all nations to never deploy nuclear weapons in outer space. The resolution comes on...
The colors of the Cave | Astronomy Magazine false product the-colors-of-the-cave https://www.astronomy.com/picture-of-the-day/photo/the-colors-of-the-cave/ The colors of the Cave | Astronomy Magazine Steve Leonard, taken from Markham, Ontario The Cave Nebula...
Any event in the cosmos generates gravitational waves, the bigger the event, the more disturbance. Events where black holes and neutron stars collide can send out waves detectable here on Earth. It is possible that there can be an event in visible light when...