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06/07/2023 02:56 PM
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SLS Could Launch a Sample Return Mission to Phobos and Deimos
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NASA’s next colossal rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), recently had its first successful flight back in November after years of development. Much of that development was done by aerospace contractors like Northrop Grumman and Boeing, so it is a good bet that engineers at those companies want the SLS to be seen as a …
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06/07/2023 12:03 AM
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20 Years of Mars Express Images Helped Build This Mosaic of the Red Planet
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To mark the 20th anniversary of the Mars Express mission, the ESA has released a stunning color mosaic image of Mars.
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06/06/2023 10:00 PM
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There Are Hundreds of Mysterious Filaments at the Center of the Milky Way
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Several million years ago, the core of our galaxy experienced a powerful event. It blew out a huge bi-lobed bubble that blasted through the interstellar medium in two directions. Whatever it was, it released huge amounts of energy from the central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* for short). These bubbles contain weird, spindly …
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06/06/2023 08:54 PM
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JWST Sees Organic Molecules Ludicrously Far Away
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When astronomers used the JWST to look at a galaxy more than 12 billion light years away, they were also looking back in time. And when they found organic molecules in that distant galaxy, they found them in the early Universe. The organic molecules are usually found where stars are forming, but in this case, …
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06/06/2023 02:29 PM
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Airbus Developed a System To Extract Oxygen and Metal From Lunar Regolith
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New technologies utilizing material found in space are constantly popping up, sometimes from smaller companies and sometimes from larger ones. Back in 2020, one of the largest companies of them all announced a technology that could have significant implications for the future lunar exploration missions planned over the next ten years. The European aerospace giant …
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06/05/2023 10:54 PM
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Researchers are Working on a Tractor Beam System for Space
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Human technology is crossing another threshold. Tractor beams have been common in science fiction for decades. Now a team of researchers is working on a real-life tractor beam that could help us with our burgeoning space debris problem. Space debris is made up of human-made objects in space that are now defunct. It ranges from …
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06/05/2023 07:41 PM
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New Satellite Successfully Beams Power From Space
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Researchers at Caltech have successfully tested their space solar power demonstrator (SSPD), showing it can beam power from space to Earth.
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06/05/2023 06:06 PM
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The Latest JWST Image Pierces Through a Shrouded Star-Forming Galaxy
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Sometimes an image is so engrossing that we can ignore what it’s telling us about its subject and just enjoy the splendour. That’s certainly true of this image of NGC 5068 released by the ESA. But Universe Today readers are curious, and after enjoying the galactic portrait for a while, they want to know more. …
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06/05/2023 02:18 PM
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It Might Take Space Telescopes to Finally Resolve the Crisis in Cosmology
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Gravitational wave (GW) observatories have been a great addition to cosmologists’ arsenal in the lack decade. With their first effective detection at the Laser Interferometric Gravitational Observatory completed in 2015, they opened up a whole new world of data collection for scientists. However, so far, they haven’t solved one of the fundamental problems at the …
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06/05/2023 01:45 PM
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NASA Has a Plan to Power the Moon
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Despite all the hype surrounding the coming of the commercial space age, NASA and other governmental agencies will still play a vital role in the early stages of getting much of the infrastructure up and running before commercial actors can come in. That role will primarily be filled by being the first (and sometimes only) …
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