SpaceX has been denied a fast track into the S&P 500 when the rocket and satellite company goes public, in a ruling that cuts off quick access to one of the biggest pools of Wall Street money.
NASA on Friday temporarily ordered astronauts to take shelter during repairs to fix a fresh leak aboard the International Space Station.
The last dark skies of spring are the perfect time to get to know a new smart telescope and go deep-sky stargazing. Continue ReadingI resisted smart telescopes for years — then one changed my life
Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 5: Check in on Mars Look east around 11 P.M. local daylight time, and you’ll see three bright stars forming a triangle — this is the famous Summer Triangle asterism, which flies high overhead in the middle of short summer nights.Continue reading “The Sky Today on Saturday, June 6: Albireo returns” The post The Sky Today on Saturday, June 6: Albireo Continue ReadingThe Sky Today on Saturday, June 6: Albireo returns
Carl Parnell, taken from Dawlish, Devon, UK The Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443 or Sharpless 2–248) is the remnant of a supernova that went off some 30,000 years ago in Gemini. Filling the top half of the image is a glowing molecular complex threaded by multiple dark nebula (LDN 1565–8). The supernova debris plowing into thisContinue reading “Sky nettle” The post Sky nettle appeared first on Astronomy Magazine. Continue ReadingSky nettle
An international committee of experts says it has updated its rules for evaluating and revealing the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence. The revisions to the decades-old Declaration of Principles, created and maintained by the International Academy of Astronautics’ SETI Committee, come just days before the release of “Disclosure Day,” a movie about alien visitation directed by Steven Spielberg.
The first mission devoted to observing the Martian atmosphere and its evolution, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution), has ended after more than 11 years in orbit at Mars and a decade beyond its primary, one-year mission.
NASA’s X-59 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Friday (June 5), reaching a top speed of about Mach 1.1. Continue ReadingGoing supersonic! NASA’s X-59 jet breaks sound barrier for the 1st time
‘Here’s the thing. My cousin and I have very different ideas about what it means to be a hero.’ Continue ReadingDC Studios lights the fuse on a sensational final ‘Supergirl’ trailer and it’s totally peak (video)
‘If ‘For All Mankind’ the danger is in space, in ‘Star City’ it’s on the ground.’ Continue ReadingInside the cruel confines of Apple TV’s ‘Star City’ with star Rhys Ifans and series creators (interview)
According to theory, all active black holes should produce winds or jets. Astronomers have long searched for wind around the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole. New images reveal a vacant, cone-shaped region pointing to the black hole. According to new research, only a supermassive black hole could’ve created this region.
Ever since the first protoplanetary disk was discovered in 1984 around the star Beta Pictoris, these objects have presented astronomers with laboratories to study the births and evolution of worlds around distant stars. A team at France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Bordeaux, made a breakthrough in understanding these planetary birthplaces when they directly observed the rotation of a protoplanetary disk around the young star AB Aurigae.
After searching for 50 years, astronomers have finally discovered powerful winds blowing from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Continue ReadingScientists find wind blowing from our Milky Way’s black hole after half-century search: ‘There it is’
Understanding the nature of our cosmos requires an accurate map of how galaxies are spread throughout it. For decades, astronomers suspected that something vast lurked behind the Milky Way’s dense, dusty disk in our sky. There were indirect, subtle distortions present in galaxy motions that we could see, showing unexplained gravitational pulls. But the structureContinue reading “Giant supercluster discovered hiding behind the Milky Way” The post Giant supercluster discovered hiding behind the Milky Way appeared Continue ReadingGiant supercluster discovered hiding behind the Milky Way
Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside have produced the most detailed map of the cosmic web ever made, tracing the network of galaxies all the way back to when the universe was one billion years old.
One year after Gemini IV astronaut Edward H. White completed NASA’s first spacewalk the agency prepared for a demanding second excursion. Originally scheduled for Gemini VIII, the extravehicular activity (EVA) was reassigned to Gemini IX-A after that mission ended early, with Gene Cernan taking on the task.
NASA has told crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to resume normal operations, ending a roughly two-hour period in which five astronauts sheltered inside a docked SpaceX capsule. The shelter order came Friday morning as a precautionary measure to protect crew while Russian cosmonauts attempted a fix on the Zvezda service module’s transfer tunnelContinue reading “ISS crew back to normal after emergency shelter order” The post ISS crew back to normal after emergency shelter Continue ReadingISS crew back to normal after emergency shelter order
Let’s take a look at the movie’s 10 spaciest moments Continue Reading‘Masters of the Universe’ is spacier than we expected (and it’s awesome)
Astronauts working on the International Space Station briefly sheltered in a docked capsule Friday as Russian colleagues assessed leak repairs, NASA said.
Stephen Hawking predicted that stars can capture primordial black holes (PBH). The PBH find their way to the stellar core, creating a Hawking star. There are two possible outcomes, both deadly for the star. Either it explodes rapidly, or it’s slowly consumed by the parasitic PBH.
