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Animation Shows Project Lyra's Ridiculous Maneuver To Catch Interstellar Asteroid
The speed and trajectory of the object, A/2017 U1, suggested that it did not come from our Solar System, and that it will ...
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What If We Caught an Interstellar Visitor?
An unexpected guest has made its way into our Solar System. This is Oumuamua. Looks like a weird rock, right? Well, it’s an interstellar object, an ISO. And it’s tumbling through space in a way that ...
Why scientists lost track of a satellite in overcrowded space— for 25 years: ‘It’s basically like air traffic control’
“The S73-7 satellite has been rediscovered after being untracked for 25 years,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist from the ...
Astronomers inspect population of young stellar objects in open cluster NGC 346
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has explored young stellar objects (YSOs) ...
Notes From TED … A Recap Of Last Week’s Conference In Vancouver
TED evolved in 40 years from a conference into the media powerhouse it is today. Here's why it can be especially ...
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What would happen if the moon disappeared?
Issues delivered straight to your door It would have some drastic consequences.
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NASA James Webb Takes a Sharp Look at the Iconic Horsehead Nebula
The sharp infrared image displays a segment of the horse's mane spanning approximately 0.8 light-years. The blue clouds at ...
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NASA’s Telescope Captures Sharpest Image of Horsehead Nebula
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the sharpest infrared images of the Horsehead Nebula to date.
Asteroid hunters spot 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids — more than were discovered by all of the world’s telescopes last year
Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave ...
Astronomers thought they knew this famous nebula. Then they saw it in high-def.
The nebula, also called Barnard 33, is in the constellation Orion. The cloud is composed of other famous markers, such as the ...
Why did a NASA spacecraft suddenly start talking gibberish after more than 45 years of operation? What fixed it?
Voyager 1 mysteriously stopped sending decipherable science and engineering data back to Earth on November 14. Fortunately, a ...