NASA asteroid explorer leaves planet Earth on Atlas 5 rocket – Astronomy Now
[ad_1] A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket provided the ride to space for NASA’s Lucy asteroid probe. Credit: United
Read more[ad_1] A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket provided the ride to space for NASA’s Lucy asteroid probe. Credit: United
Read more[ad_1] The James Webb Space Telescope is seen inside the S5C payload processing facility 15 October at the Guiana Space
Read more[ad_1] An artist’s impression of a cataclysmic impact in a young solar system 95 light years from Earth that may
Read more[ad_1] The Orionid meteor shower radiant. AN Graphic by Greg Smye-Rumsby. The Orionid meteor shower peaks on 21/22 October, but
Read more[ad_1] The Perseverance Mars rover, after collecting and storing two samples of martian rock and soil from the floor of
Read more[ad_1] The innermost-lying planet Mercury offers it’s best showing of the year in the pre-dawn sky for the rest of
Read more[ad_1] The Sun on 24 October, showing sunspot AR2887 near the Sun’s south-eastern limb. Image: SDO/HMI. A major new sunspot
Read more[ad_1] In a 2010 microlensing event, the light from a background star (bright star in center and right frames) was
Read more[ad_1] Supermassive Black Hole–Powered “Mushroom” Clouds Warm gas “rises” from the active supermassive black hole at the center of the
Read more[ad_1] Satellite megaconstellations are quickly becoming a serious problem to 21st century astronomy akin to urban light pollution, and speedy
Read more[ad_1] What is Astronomy Day? Doug Berger, while president of the Astronomical Association of Northern California at the time, started
Read more[ad_1] Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of “Ask a Spaceman” and
Read more[ad_1] Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of “Ask a Spaceman” and
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