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What would a solar eclipse look like from the Moon? 

What would a solar eclipse look like from the Moon? 

[ad_1] The astronauts of Apollo 12 — Alan Bean, Pete Conrad, and Dick Gordon — experienced a solar eclipse while returning home from the Moon. Their spacecraft flew through Earth’s shadow, allowing them to capture this image on their 16mm motion picture camera....

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Ultrablack Coating Could Be Ideal for Telescopes

Ultrablack Coating Could Be Ideal for Telescopes

[ad_1] If you, like me, have dabbled with telescope making you will know what a fickle friend light can be. On one hand you want to capture as much as you can (but only from the object, not from nearby lights) and want to reflect or refract it to the point of...

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ESA – The return of Andreas Mogensen

ESA – The return of Andreas Mogensen

[ad_1] After more than 6 months on the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen returned to Earth, marking the end of his Huginn mission. It was his second mission to the Space Station and his first long-duration, where he was the pilot of Crew-7,...

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This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

[ad_1] Back to Article List The American astronomer’s most famous claims have long since been debunked. But his legacy lives on in the observatory that bears his name. Percival Lowell, born into wealth and influence, had an outsized role in shaping views of the solar...

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Black Holes Need Refreshing Cold Gas to Keep Growing

Black Holes Need Refreshing Cold Gas to Keep Growing

[ad_1] The Universe is filled with supermassive black holes. Almost every galaxy in the cosmos has one, and they are the most well-studied black holes by astronomers. But one thing we still don’t understand is just how they grew so massive so quickly. To answer that,...

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Webb & Hubble confirm Universe’s expansion rate

Webb & Hubble confirm Universe’s expansion rate

[ad_1] The rate at which the Universe is expanding, known as the Hubble constant, is one of the fundamental parameters for understanding the evolution and ultimate fate of the cosmos. However, a persistent difference, called the Hubble Tension, is seen between the...

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