The Full Moon Won’t Be Pink This Week – But It Will Be Red Next Month
This month, on Saturday, April 16, the first full Moon of spring will occur. This one is known as a Pink Moon and has great…
Astronomy
Small Space Company Gets Blasted After Launching Rocket Right Next To Engineers
It’s difficult to do rocket science. Aerodynamics, momentum conservation, and propellant flow are all examples of rigorous physics, which helps to explain why rocket launches…
Rogue Supernova Might Have Exploded In the Space between Galaxies
Humans have been observing supernovae in the Milky Way since antiquity, and owing to sophisticated telescopes, we have spotted many more in distant galaxies. Astronomers…
Russia Halts Cooperation with Western Countries on the ISS over Sanctions
Russia has stated that it will stop cooperating with the US and Western nations on the International Space Station in light of what it calls…
Part of This Famous Supernova Is Somehow Moving Backwards
Cassiopeia A is one of the Milky Way’s most well-studied supernova remnants. From our perspective, the plasma shell has been growing at a pace of…
Record-Breaking Space Laser 5 Billion Light-Years Away Detected By Astronomers
In a week that has seen the discovery of the most distant single star and the most distant galaxy, a record-breaking funky space phenomenon known…
KELT-11b – an Exoplanet
KELT-11b is an exoplanet that orbits the yellow subgiant star KELT-11 (HD 93396) about 320 light-years away from Earth. It is a gas giant exoplanet…
New Farthest Galaxy Ever Seen Discovered By Astronomers
Astronomers have discovered a new record-breaking galaxy approximately 300 million years after the Big Bang, hot on the heels of the farthest distant star ever…
Humanity Has A New Message to Send To Aliens, Despite Stephen Hawking’s Concerns
Humans have devised a new message to send into space in order to draw the attention of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe: a binary-coded…
Kepler’s Most Distant Discovery Is an Almost Perfect Twin for Jupiter
For the first time, two of the approaches used by astronomers to detect planets circling other stars (exoplanets) have been combined. A planet has been…
Here’s What the Wind and a Tiny Helicopter Sound Like On Mars
We have not only the first sounds recorded on Mars thanks to Perseverance being the first Mars rover to transport two specialized microphones to Mars,…
A Solar Power Station in Space Here’s How It Would Work – And the Benefits It Could Bring
According to reports, the UK government is mulling a £16 billion plan to create a solar power plant in space. That’s right, you read that…
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