Notice: Space

Most recent stories in Notice: Space

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  Keith

  

  19 hours ago

  How big is the Sun? An exercise in really big numbers

  cosmosmagazine.com - Evrim Yazgin

  The Sun, though still very mysterious in a lot of ways, has been studied for a very long time. Rising and setting in our planet’s sky for the last …

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  Keith

  

  16 hours ago

  Behold! Curiosity discovers Martian rocks contain an essential ingredient of life

  Inverse - Allison Parshall

  NASA has searched for signs of life on Mars for years, but for the first time ever, the agency’s rover Curiosity has taken a crucial measure of an …

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  Keith

  

  15 hours ago

  South Korea's new space program reaches for the sky

  DW English - Julian Ryall (Tokyo)

  Seoul has announced significant financial support for South Korea's aerospace sector after the launch of the nation’s first domestically developed …

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  Keith

  

  1 day ago

  The Gaia Mission Keeps Unlocking Secrets of the Galaxy

  WIRED - Chris Wright

  New data from the ESA’s probe, now eight years into its mission, adds significant detail to its portrait of nearly 2 billion objects in the Milky Way. …

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  Keith

  

  1 day ago

  World’s oldest trees reveal the largest solar storm in history

  bigthink.com - Ethan Siegel

  While humanity reckons with many problems here on Earth — war, political turmoil, an ongoing pandemic, all alongside the energy, climate, and water …

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  Keith

  

  2 days ago

  This 8K video lets you “fly” above an incredibly detailed Martian crater

  diyphotography.net - Dunja Djudjic

  HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) is the most powerful camera ever sent to another planet. So, not surprisingly, it has shot some …