Space Exploration

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NASA
NASA cuts to Europa mission anger planetary scientists
nature.com - Alexandra Witze
Space agency ditches key instrument from mission to Jupiter moon over budget concerns. The Woodlands, Texas Planetary scientists are angry about NASA’s …
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Opinion
Here’s What a Real Meritocracy Looks Like
Bloomberg - Faye Flam
Meritocracy is a popular idea for structuring society, but whether committees are picking students to go to Yale or doling out coveted time on the …
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Boeing
Meet the veteran astronaut who’ll be on the first launch of Boeing’s Starliner
MIT Technology Review - Erin Winick
The newest addition to the commercial crew explains how he is preparing for space again, eight years after his last trip. Both Boeing and SpaceX plan …
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Asteroids
Hayabusa2 to blow a hole in Ryugu to collect underground samples
slashgear.com - Shane McGlaun
Japan’s space agency, JAXA, has announced that the Hayabusa2 spacecraft will soon pull off another critical mission. The new mission will see the …
Hubble Space Telescope
Image - IC 63 Ghost Nebula
hubblesite.org
About this image Powerful gushers of energy from seething stars can sculpt eerie-looking figures with long flowing veils of gas and dust. One striking …
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NASA
Unexpected discoveries from near-Earth asteroid Bennu about origins of life, Nasa reveals
independent.co.uk - Anthony Cuthbertson
Nasa has revealed "unexpected" findings from the first data received back from a nearby asteroid, offering clues to the origins of the solar system …
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Mars Rover
The sad reason part of the Mars Rover's last image is black and white
Popular Photography - Stan Horaczek
Earlier this year, we learned that the Mars Opportunity rover had officially ended its service. It traveled more than a marathon’s distance in its …
Business Insider
Hubble Telescope
NASA analysed a photo taken by the Hubble Telescope so we can hear what space 'sounds like'
Business Insider - Ruqayyah Moynihan, Business Insider Deutschland
Though we're discovering more and more every day, the universe is still filled with secrets and enigma that mankind is only just starting to uncover. Even if we've managed to sight billions of stars and
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Technology (India)
Tata Motor's top-end seven-seater Buzzard SUV to be called Cassini in India- Technology News, Firstpost
Firstpost - OverdriveMar 19, 2019 16:26:42 IST
Tata Motors showcased the seven-seater version of the Harrier SUV at the Geneva Motor Show called the Buzzard, however, when launched in India, the …
France 24
United Arab Emirates
UAE announces pan-Arab body for space programme
France 24
Read more Abu Dhabi (AFP) Eleven Arab states including Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Morocco on Tuesday signed on to the first regional team to cooperate on a space programme, the UAE said. "Today at the Space
Cal Poly
Image - SDSS 1430+13, Teacup Galaxy
hubblesite.org
The image was created from Hubble observations of active galaxies from proposals 5426: PI Z. Tsvetanov (NASA/GALEX) et al. and 12525: W. Keel …
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NASA
Surprise NASA Announcement Puts Future Of New Mega-Rocket In Doubt
Forbes - Jonathan O'Callaghan
Last week, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine made an announcement that shocked the space world. He said the first mission for NASA’s new flagship mega-rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), might be to
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Exploration
The New Space Age: Experts Ponder the Future of Cosmic Exploration
space.com
In 10 to 50 years, spaceflight might take us to the surface of the Red Planet, to the discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet and beyond. But, according …
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Hubble Space Telescope
A new Einstein cross is discovered
phys.org - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
This study, which has combined images from the Hubble Space Telescope with spectroscopic observations from the GTC, has confirmed the existence of a …
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NASA
Is NASA’s Golden Age of Space Telescopes Ending?
scientificamerican.com - Mike Wall, SPACE.com
The $8.9 billion James Webb Space Telescope may be the last big-budget observatory that NASA launches for a while. The White House’s proposed 2020 …
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Exploration
Vincent Fournier’s ‘Space Utopia’: Space exploration as humanity’s great adventure
The Washington Post - By Annaliese Nurnberg and
The images in Vincent Fournier’s new book, “Space Utopia,” are reminiscent of a Stanley Kubrick film. Over the course of 10 years, Fournier explored space centers on the world, from a Mars research station
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Space
The Saga of a Stranded Space Station Supercomputer
Popular Mechanics - Joe Pappalardo
The ISS crew gives some attention to a computer that is paving the way for deep space missions. If it can ever get back to Earth, that is. Last week, astronauts on the International Space Station performed
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Hubble
Small Fragments of Disintegrating Asteroid Captured by Hubble
neatorama.com - Exuperist
With so many objects in space, it will be hard to monitor and witness everything that happens. In this rare instance, the Hubble telescope witnessed …
Hubble Space Telescope
Invisible X-rays
spacetelescope.org - information@eso.org
This fuzzy orb of light is a giant elliptical galaxy filled with an incredible 200 billion stars. Unlike spiral galaxies, which have a well-defined …
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Kickstarter
Journalist's Son Shares 'Space Junk' From Father's Aerospace Archives
space.com
In life, journalist Jacques Tiziou amassed an extensive space exploration archive. Now, his son is seeking help in finding a home for the myriad of …
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SpaceX
Astronomy: Docking of SpaceX with space station puts US back in launch business
dispatch.com
America is once again poised to send astronauts into space. The successful launch and touchdown of the SpaceX demonstration flight has paved the way …
Hubble Space Telescope
Image - ACS Image of NGC 5866
hubblesite.org
About this image This is a unique NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight. Hubble's …
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Hubble
New Hubble image displays dazzling Messier 28 globular cluster
Digital Trends
The Hubble Space Telescope captures no end of wonders, from images of two colliding galaxies to the brightest quasar ever discovered. This week, the …
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China
China and the US are locked in a crucial battle for space domination
Wired UK - Amy Hawkins
WIRED Fifty years after the first moon landing, an American triumph that gripped the world, China marked the start of 2019 with its own lunar …
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Galaxies
Hubble Finds Phantom Objects Near Dead Quasars
hubblesite.org
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a set of wispy, goblin-green objects that are the ephemeral ghosts of quasars that flickered to life …
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Nebulas
Take a dip in the Lagoon Nebula in first image from SPECULOOS instrument
Digital Trends
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has been showing off its new toys, recently sharing first light images from its new telescopes Io, Europa, …
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Space Station
Listen: Trio of new crew members successfully arrive at International Space Station
Audioburst - WIBC 93.1FM
"Space crew is finally at the international space station after a successful launch yesterday and Kazahstan NASA, astronauts, Nick Haig and Christina …
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Exploration
New research module Nauka for ISS to undergo pre-flight tests — Roscosmos chief
tass.com
MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. A new multifunctional laboratory module Nauka (Science), which is expected to be launched to the International Space …
Shane Leschasinadded this to esoterica
NASA
NASA engineer looks to Saturn moon Titan for human colony
CNET - Amanda Kooser
Titan's big selling point is that you could attach wings to your arms and fly.
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Buzz Aldrin
As Apollo 11 moon landing anniversary nears, space fans get ready to celebrate
geekwire.com - Alan Boyle
The countdown is on for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and that means the appointment books for space luminaries and their fans …