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Last night’s photo. It was a bit hazy so it wasn’t very sharp. Comet was barely visible with the naked eye. Some passers by stopped to look through the binoculars. I’ll have the 6-inch telescope set up tonight if its clear.
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People were frightened by this phenomenon, but did not understand the soundtrack chosen for the video.
Some years ago a metorite exploded over the skies of the north of Rio de Janeiro. A lucky boy found some debris and it started a kind of sideral gold rush for cosmic stones.
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Comet viewing this evening. A few of the neighbors came out for a peek too. Unfortunately all the neighborhood mosquitos came out as well. With the telescope you could easily see the comet’s position change over time. Rounded out the evening with some views of Jupiter and Saturn.
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US military whips out credit card for unmanned low-Earth-orbit outpost prototype (aka a repurposed ISS cargo pod)
The Pentagon wants an unmanned military outpost in orbit one day – and this week hired the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) to build a prototype.
When Apollo met Soyuz: 45 years ago, Americans and Russians played together nicely… IN SPAAAAACE
It is 45 years since US astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts first shook hands in space. The Register presents “When Apollo met Soyuz”.
Conceived during an all-too-brief warming in relations between the US and the Soviet Union, the mission (known as the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – ASTP – in the US, and Soyuz-Apollo Experimental Flight – EPAS – in Russia) was the culmination of discussions around a joint spaceflight that included a potential joint mission to the Moon.
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51 years after humans first set foot on the Moon, a deepfaked Nixon mourns how Armstrong and Aldrin never made it home
On the 51st anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, MIT boffins have given an insight into an alternative history, one where US president Richard Nixon paid tribute to the astronauts who would not be returning from the Moon.
Not to be confused with the Apple TV series For All Mankind , which presented its own alternate timeline, the MIT “In Event Of Moon Disaster” project attempts to portray events as though Armstrong and Aldrin were to be left on the Moon, and features a deepfake version of Nixon delivering the infamous contingency speech.
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The volcanoes on Venus aren’t dead, say astroboffins, they’re merely resting, pining for the planet’s lava fjords
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We’ve heard of littering but this is ridiculous: Asteroid dumps up to 50 quadrillion kg of space dirt on Earth, Moon
A massive asteroid broke apart within the inner Solar System and showered the Earth and Moon with up to fifty quadrillion kilograms of meteoroids, say a trio of Japanese scientists. That’s approximately 30 to 60 times more cosmic material than the Chicxulub prang that thoroughly ruined the dinosaurs’ day.
The academics analyzed data from Japan’s JAXA Moon orbiter Kaguya, and lunar regolith collected by NASA’s Apollo missions, and found tantalizing clues that several large craters on the Moon formed at the same time, some 800 million years ago. Eight out of the 59 cavities studied dated back to a time just before the Cryogenian period, when the Earth was covered in ice.
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SpaceX pulls off an incredible catch, netting both halves of its Falcon fairing as they fell Earthwards after latest launch
SpaceX has pulled off another remarkable feat of space rocket recycling, capturing both pieces of a nose cone shield from its most recent launch, using giant nets suspended over the back of two boats in its fleet.
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