[ad_1] The Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as M101, is a spiral galaxy just 21 million light years away. It’s a popular galaxy for photographs because it’s oriented to us face-on. This means you can see the bright whorled spirals and dark cloud regions, even in amateur...

[ad_1] Applications 31/05/2023 714 views 27 likes Registration is now open for ESA’s first-ever Earth Observation Commercialisation Forum. Taking place at ESA Headquarters in Paris from 30 to 31 October 2023, investors, institutions, entrepreneurs and companies of any...

[ad_1] China's latest crew of three astronauts is now aboard the country's Tiangong space station.The trio, the crew of the Shenzhou 16 mission, launched on a Long March 2F rocket from Jiuquan spaceport in the Gobi Desert at 9:31 p.m. EDT on May 29 (0131 GMT and 9:31...

[ad_1] Marcin Glowacki, Curtin University Astronomers have been working to better understand the galactic environments of fast radio bursts (FRBs) – intense, momentary bursts of energy occurring in mere milliseconds and with unknown cosmic origins. Now, a study of the...

[ad_1] With Virgin Orbit going through bankruptcy, other launch providers are purchasing various parts of the business. This week we learned that Stratolaunch’s bid to buy Virgin Orbit’s modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft has been approved by the U.S Bankruptcy...

[ad_1] A downward view of ESA’s rock-strewn recreation of the Red Planet, designed to put prototype planetary rovers through their paces.Officially part of the Planetary Robotics Laboratory at the Agency’s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, the...

[ad_1] NASA will hold a historic public meeting on UFOs this week and you can watch it all live online in a free webcast.The agency will hold a meeting of the "independent study group" it formed nearly a year ago in June 2022 in order to study data related to...

[ad_1] Back to Article List From the April 2023 issue Thanks to the effects of relativity, a light-speed traveler experiences less time passing than an observer on Earth. If a traveler could reach 99 percent the speed of light by accelerating at 32.2 ft/s2 (9.8 m/s2),...

[ad_1] When two black holes collide, they don’t smash into each other the way two stars might. A black hole is an intensely curved region of space that can be described by only its mass, rotation, and electric charge, so two black holes release violent gravitational...

[ad_1] Applications 25/05/2023 4373 views 61 likes Earth’s declining ice is without a doubt one of the clearest signs of climate change. A new high-resolution sea-ice concentration data record has just been released as part of ESA’s Climate Change Initiative –...