Credit: Starmus Festival Today, at the World Travel Market in London, STARMUS and the Canary Islands proudly revealed the line-up of the highly anticipated STARMUS La Palma festival. The announcement was made during a special presentation led by the co-founder and director of STARMUS, Prof. Garik Israelian, in the presence of the President of the […]
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Marvel Animation’s What If…? Season 3 | Official Trailer | Disney+ – YouTube Watch On Marvel Animation’s animated anthology series “What If…?” was a novelty hit for Disney+ when it first launched on the House of Mouse’s streaming platform in 2021 with nine mindwarping alternative universe tales of Marvel Studios superheroes and superbeings in infinite
Lockheed Martin’s Starlab is one of several private space stations currently proposed. The company hopes to have it built by 2027. Credit: Nanoracks The era of the International Space Station (ISS) is coming to an end. In the near future, NASA plans to shoot down the station during a controlled deorbit. The end of the
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An illustration of a comet blazing through Earth’s skies. By studying meteor showers, scientists think they may be able to pinpoint potentially deadly comets years in advance. (Image credit: Maciej Frolow via Getty Images) Comets that rarely swing past the sun could ram into our planet, but we could spot them using the “crumb”-like meteoroid
Credit: Ryan Wick (Flickr, CC BY 2.0) Astronomy is a science and a hobby that loves long words, acronyms, and abbreviations. At times, listening to someone talking about an event happening in the sky or an object faraway in space can feel like watching one of those episodes of Star Trek where the characters spend
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This image of the Skull Nebula (NGC 246) in Cepheus includes 20.6 hours of S2/Ha/O3 imaging with a 235 mm SCT at f/7. Credit: Michael Borland (Flickr, CC BY 2.0) Many constellations are famous for having a very special deep sky object within their boundaries, something so famous that when you read or hear the
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Uranus as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI) Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this probe flew by the ice giant, providing humanity with its first close-up glimpse of the seventh planet from the sun.
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SpaceX caught its Super Heavy booster in mid-air using a pair of metal “wandstick” arms, the first time such a maneuver has been successfully completed. Credit: SpaceX The sixth test flight of Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket to ever fly, will launch no earlier than 5 pm EST on Monday, Nov. 18, SpaceX
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A ‘selfie’ taken by China’s Zhurong Mars rover during the Tianwen-1 mission. (Image credit: China News Service) Happy Martian New Year! Today marks the start of a new year on the Red Planet, the 38th since humans began counting in 1956. The Martian new year begins with data from a now-defunct rover spotting what appears
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A photo-illustration of the optical illusion known as Mach bands, seen on Saturn. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly according to Ethan Chappel About every 15 years, Earth passes through the plane of Saturn’s rings, causing them to nearly disappear from view, not to mention generating a host of other interesting phenomena. The next such apparition will
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