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The clips were recorded in 2004 and 2015 by infrared cameras on US Navy aircraft and show what the Pentagon calls "unidentified aerial phenomena" - oblong objects appears to move through the sky in unusual ways. Pilots can be heard on the videos marveling at their speed, sudden movements, how they seem to rotate in mid-air and fly into a substantial headwind with ease.
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A view of Earth and a satellite, taken by NASA. The notion of space tourism might seem "frivolous" at a time when humanity is battling a global pandemic, but the days of suborbital travel are edging closer.
Commercial space flights could happen as soon as late this year, despite the global recession fueled by the novel coronavirus. That's the prediction of Jeffrey Manber, CEO of Nanoracks , a private space company working on the commercial utilization of space.
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Video: Astronaut teaches Dundee kids about space travel with virtual visits - Evening Telegraph
Jim Reilly is a geoscientist and explorer who has completed three space shuttle missions and five spacewalks during his 13-year career, logging almost 900 hours in space.
He has sent a video from his home in Virginia to Dundee Science Centre for its home learning programme to give youngsters an insight into his career in space travel.
It forms part of the science centre's Space Week, which includes free, themed activities for children to do from the safety of their own home.
Dynetics designing Human Landing System for NASA's Artemis program
The company was awarded a contract to design a Human Landing System for NASA’s Artemis program. It released this statement on Thursday:
Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has been awarded a contract under NASA’s Artemis program to design a Human Landing System (HLS) and compete to build a system to take the first woman and next man to the lunar surface by 2024.
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The Dynetics approach enables near-term reusability and sustainability and provides a robust, commercially supported lander capability, while boasting flight-proven technologies for habitat, power, thermal and other subsystems. The system’s crew module is designed to accommodate two crew members for nominal missions from lunar orbit to the lunar surface and back, including surface habitation for about a week.
The Mavericks' 'Blame It on Your Heart' Video: Watch - Rolling Stone
The Mavericks find a unique, eye-popping way to appear together in a music video during quarantine — the animated clip for “Blame It on Your Heart” casts the band members as interstellar explorers traveling through space, time, and under the sea.
The band covered the Harlan Howard and Kostas composition, made famous by Patty Loveless in 1993, for their latest album Play the Hits , a collection of cover songs like John Anderson’s “Swingin’,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Hungry Heart,” and Elvis Presley’s “Don’t Be Cruel.” In the video, Mavericks singer Raul Malo is a space cowboy “out to regain the love of his damsel,” as a Star Wars title crawl informs us.
Meet the People Behind NASA's Perseverance Rover – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
From left to right: Moo Stricker, Al Chen, Diana Trujillo, Eric Aguilar and Michelle Tomey Colizzi as they appear in a new "Behind the Spacecraft" video series about the NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Credit: NASA 360
These are the scientists and engineers who built NASA's next Mars rover and who will guide it to a safe landing in Jezero Crater.
Behind every spacecraft there are stories of hope, passion and creativity from the people who design and build these complex machines. In the case of NASA's next Mars rover, there has also been no shortage of perseverance.
ISRO invites proposals for tech relating to human space travel- Edexlive
The space agency has sought technological proposals in areas like radiation hazard characterisation and mitigation, space food and human robotic interfaces
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The Indian space agency which plans to send Indians has called for proposals from national research and academic institutions for developing affordable indigenous technologies for human survival in low earth orbit.
'Handmaid's Tale' in space: Laura Lam reads from her new book, 'Goldlocks'
Laura Lam is the author of several sci-fi novels in addition to the fantastical YA Micah Grey trilogy . She joins Inverse Happy Hour to give us a sneak preview into her latest literary world, but this time it's set in space. Goldilocks , out May 5, is a dystopian thriller centered around five women who take it upon themselves to save the human race by stealing a spaceship and heading to the Goldilocks zone, which Lam describes as "not too hot, not too cold."
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In addition to an exclusive reading of her new book and a dive into the extensive space travel research that went into writing it — several NASA scientists were consulted — Lam also took the opportunity to recommend Alex Garland's Devs for a Silicon Valley thriller that knows how to keep you on your toes: "It's really unpredictable. Usually, you at least have a sense of where the story is going, and I just got to the end of Episode 4, and I'm like, Wait what?! "
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Budget cuts may force NASA's Curiosity rover to slam on the brakes just as it's reaching its highly anticipated home stretch.
The $2.5 billion mission also seeks to shed light on Mars' long-ago shift from a relatively warm and wet world to the cold and dry planet we know today. Gale is well suited for such inquiry; it harbors a 3.4-mile-high (5.5 km) massif called Mount Sharp , whose many rock layers preserve a long history of Martian environmental conditions.
The UAE wants to send people to Mars. But first, a practice round on Earth. | Space
The United Arab Emirates sent its first astronaut to space for a week last fall; the country's next astronaut mission will last longer but remain much closer to home.
"This is our first engagement and involvement in an analog mission," Adnan AlRais, program manager of Mars 2117 at the UAE's Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre, told Space.com. "This is going to be our first step in preparing our own experiments hopefully to be conducted on future human spaceflight."
Mars Helicopter Attached to NASA's Perseverance Rover – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
The team also fueled the rover's sky crane to get ready for this summer's history-making launch.
With the launch period of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover opening in 14 weeks, final preparations of the spacecraft continue at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the past week, the assembly, test and launch operations team completed important milestones, fueling the descent stage — also known as the sky crane — and attaching the Mars Helicopter, which will be the first aircraft in history to attempt power-controlled flight on another planet.
Sols 2747-2748: Driving to 'Glasgow' – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
Today we built a two-sol plan including a 4x4 ChemCam raster on target “Troon” and a 1x10 raster on “Buttery.” Mastcam will take images of those two targets as well as a follow-up image of the ChemCam AEGIS targets from the weekend, a 6x4 mosaic of the planned drill area, and a stereo 2x5 mosaic of target “Alpin.” MAHLI will get a full suite of images (25 cm, 5 cm stereo, and 2 cm) on “Troon.
These blog updates are provided by self-selected Mars Science Laboratory mission team members who love to share what Curiosity is doing with the public.
I trapped a dog in space in the Mars Horizon beta | PC Gamer
I needn't have worried, however, as Mars Horizon only currently goes as far as the moon. Mars itself will have to wait. That still leaves a lot of steps, from the earliest test launches to putting humans on the unfriendly rock—all while competing with other space agencies.
Mars Horizon has been developed with support from the European Space Agency, which may explain why it's presented as everyone's best bud while the Russians can cut corners and spin failures so that nobody minds if a rocket blows up or a dog goes missing. I should have picked them.
NASA will reveal the new name of its Mars 2020 rover on Thursday | Space
Like NASA's previous Red Planet rovers, Mars 2020 is getting its official moniker via a student naming competition. The contest, which kicked off last year, generated more than 28,000 essay submissions from K-12 students representing every U.S. state and territory, NASA officials said.
That initial pool was whittled down to 155 semifinalists, which in January were culled to nine finalists, three in each of three age categories (grades K-4, 5-8 and 9-12). These nine contenders, and the students who proposed them, are:
NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Unexplained Oxygen on Mars - Scientific American
NASA’s Curiosity rover, for three Martian years—nearly six years to us Earthlings—has been sniffing the air above Mars’ Gale Crater, its near-equatorial exploration site. Using its Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) portable chemistry lab, the rover has ascertained not only what the surface atmosphere is made of, but also how its gases change with the seasons.
Many of Mars’ gases “are very well behaved,” says Melissa Trainer, a planetary scientist at NASA and a team member on the SAM experiment. One, however, appears to be behaving in a decidedly unexpected and altogether bizarre manner: oxygen.
Catastrophic ice avalanches may have blasted down kilometers of polar ice craters of Mars at speeds of up to 80 meters per second on at least two occasions.
According to new research, these massive ice avalanches, also called fast running glacier surges, might solve a mystery about strange features on the Red Planet.
Mars is full of strange features like fast shifting sand dunes and surface carbonates . Researchers had long noticed strange, linear features that traveled down the sides of craters in the north polar region. Given that the lines appear to be moraines, researchers "thought they might be from carbon dioxide glaciers, which is super cool and exotic sounding," said Mike Sori , a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona who was not involved in Krasilnikov's study.
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(CNN) A red giant star strayed too close to a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 250 million light-years away. Instead of being gobbled up, the star survived -- but it's not in an ideal situation, either. In a drawn-out process of destruction that leads to a kind of renewal, the star will transform into a planet.
Scientists Release Incredible Video of Black Hole Spewing Matter
After an international coalition of scientists released the first-ever image of a black hole last year, we now have the ultimate follow-up: a video of a supermassive black hole spewing a brilliant jet of particles.
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The video, part of a new research paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics this week, actually comes from the same observation of the black hole image conducted by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) initiative, as Science Alert reports .
News | Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole Dance
Black holes aren't stationary in space; in fact, they can be quite active in their movements. But because they are completely dark and can't be observed directly, they're not easy to study. Scientists have finally figured out the precise timing of a complicated dance between two enormous black holes, revealing hidden details about the physical characteristics of these mysterious cosmic objects.
The OJ 287 galaxy hosts one of the largest black holes ever found, with over 18 billion times the mass of our Sun. Orbiting this behemoth is another black hole with about 150 million times the Sun's mass. Twice every 12 years, the smaller black hole crashes through the enormous disk of gas surrounding its larger companion, creating a flash of light brighter than a trillion stars - brighter, even, than the entire Milky Way galaxy. The light takes 3.5 billion years to reach Earth.
The Black Hole of Luxury Watch Repair - The New York Times
Customers are used to waiting, waiting, waiting until their timepieces are returned. Is that patience about to end?
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For all their expertise in wooing prospective buyers, luxury watchmakers have long been criticized for neglecting clients from the moment a purchase is completed.
"What we care about is selling a watch, not repairing a watch," said Ricardo Guadalupe , chief executive of the Swiss watchmaker Hublot. He was referring to the industry's collective tendency to ignore after-sales service, although, he added, that mind-set has begun to change.
Astronomers Identify 'Missing Link' Mid-Sized Black Hole
Researchers used data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and two X-ray observatories to find the black hole, which was in the process of destroying a nearby star.
Black holes are extremely dense objects possessing gravitational pulls so powerful that not even light can escape.
The newly identified black hole is more than 50,000 times the mass of our sun. It sits about 740 million light years from Earth in a galaxy containing far fewer stars than our Milky Way. A light year is the distance light travels in a year, about 9.5 trillion kilometers.
Little black hole orbits large black hole / Boing Boing
NASA published this animation showing a little black hole (150m solar masses) whirling around a large black hole (18bn solar masses), punching through its accretion disc like an energetic puppy doing donuts through a bead curtain.
Two massive black holes are locked in a dance at the center of the OJ 287 galaxy. The larger black hole is surrounded by disk of gas; it is also orbited by a smaller black hole that collides with the disk, producing a flare brighter than 1 trillion stars. But because the system's complex physics affects the smaller black hole's orbit, the flares occur irregularly.
Scientists Discover Pair Of Dancing Black Holes Regularly Ejecting Energy
A team of scientists discovered a pair of orbiting black holes that regularly produce outbursts of galaxies. Based on their study, most of the outbursts occur every 12 years.
The scientists were able to spot the black holes after their energy outburst was detected by NASA's Spitzer infrared telescope. Details of their observations were presented in a new study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters .
The black holes are collectively known as OJ 287. They exist in a galaxy that's about 3.5 billion light-years from Earth's neighborhood. While one of the black holes is relatively small, which is about 150 million times more massive than the Sun, the other one is supermassive.
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For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly classified by scientists from the USGS Astrogeology Science Center, in collaboration with NASA and the Lunar and Planetary Institute.
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The animation above shows a rotating globe of the new Unified Geologic Map of the Moon with shaded topography from NASA’s LOLA mission to the moon (LOLA stands for Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter).
The U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) announced the new Unified Geologic Map of the Moon on April 20, 2020. They said it shows the moon’s surface geology, with rock layers and craters charted “in great detail.” The map is a synthesis of six Apollo-era regional geologic maps, updated with data from more recent moon missions.
NASA to announce which companies will carry humans to the moon, develop lunar lander
After receiving bids to build a human moon lander from major space companies including SpaceX, Boeing and Blue Origin, NASA said it will announce Thursday which companies will carry astronauts back to the moon for the first time since the Apollo program.
NASA will award multiple contracts to develop and demonstrate a human landing system. The first company to complete its lander will carry astronauts to the surface in 2024, and the second company will land in 2025, according to the space agency.
China's lunar rover travels about 448 meters on moon's far side - Xinhua | English.news.cn
BEIJING, April 30 (Xinhua) -- China's lunar rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, has driven 447.68 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration of the virgin territory.
Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have ended their work for the 17th lunar day, and switched to dormant mode for the lunar night due to the lack of solar power, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
One of the world's largest lunar meteorites goes on private sale at Christie's on Thursday, valued at 2 million pounds ($2.49 million).
The moon rock, weighing over 13.5 kg, was probably struck off the surface of the moon by a collision with an asteroid or comet and then showered down on the Sahara desert.
Known as NWA 12691, it is thought to be the fifth largest piece of the moon ever found on Earth. There is just 650 kg of moon rock known to be on Earth.
Publisher: A piece of the moon for sale: just $2.5M
See the bright 'evening star' Venus swing by the crescent moon tonight | Space
The bright "evening star" Venus will be hard to miss this week, as the planet reaches its greatest brightness of the year on Tuesday (April 28). But first the planet will make a close approach to the crescent moon.
Today (April 26) the waxing crescent moon will be in conjunction with Venus, meaning the objects share the same celestial longitude and will appear close together in the sky.
The moment of conjunction occurs at 11:23 a.m. EDT (1523 GMT), and you can spot them above the southwestern horizon after sunset. The moon will be about 6 degrees south of Venus in the constellation of Taurus, the bull .
Shooting Stars From Halley's Comet Will Next Week Battle A 'Super Flower Moon'
Remember Halley's Comet? One of the most famous celestial visitors to the solar system in recent decades, 1P/Halley—as it's officially known—gets close to the Sun every 75 years. It was last seen in 1986 and won't be with us again until 2061, and yet every year our planet busts through its icy remains in space.
The result, of course, is a possible sighting of "shooting stars"—bits and pieces leftover from Halley's Comet impacting with Earth's atmosphere.
UPDATE 1-A piece of the moon for sale: just $2.5 million - Reuters
LONDON, April 29 (Reuters) - One of the world’s largest lunar meteorites goes on private sale at Christie’s on Thursday, valued at 2 million pounds ($2.49 million).
The moon rock, weighing over 13.5 kg, was probably struck off the surface of the moon by a collision with an asteroid or comet and then showered down on the Sahara desert.
Known as NWA 12691, it is thought to be the fifth largest piece of the moon ever found on earth. There is just 650 kg of moon rock known to be on earth.
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The rocky object, called the 1998 OR2, passed by no closer than about 4 million miles, according to NASA .
While many astronomers consider 1998 OR2 to be making a close approach to the planet, it is still very far away.
So far, in fact, that it cannot be seen with the naked eye or a small telescope, the European Space Agency tweeted . The asteroid is "just at the limit of what is visible with medium-sized telescopes," the agency wrote.
A 'Potentially Hazardous' Asteroid Visits, Venus Shines At Its Brightest: The Night Sky This Week
Each Monday I pick out the northern hemisphere's celestial highlights for the week ahead, but be sure to check my main feed for more in-depth articles on stargazing, eclipses and astronomy.
Venus will be just 27% illuminated this week, but despite that its brightness will be an incredible ... [+] sight.
Tonight it will be 27% illuminated, but despite that, its brightness will be an incredible sight. "It'll continue to be dazzling in the west after sunset for the next month, so it's a great time to look out for our nearest planetary neighbour," says Kerss. Look west after sunset to see Venus at its very best, and if you have a small telescope of a big pair of binoculars, use them!
A Nest of Alien Asteroids Orbits Our Sun - The New York Times
A pair of astronomers announced last week that they had identified 19 alien asteroids circling our sun.
The rocks were probably stolen from other nearby stars 4.5 billion years ago, during the birth throes of the sun. Today they mingle in the sky with a class of asteroids called Centaurs that inhabit outer realms of the solar system between Jupiter and Neptune.
But unlike the rest of the Centaurs, the aliens' orbits take them far out of the plane in which the planets go around the sun, suggesting that they were once circling other stars.
ATLANTIC SKIES: With an asteroid skirting through our solar system, learn a bit more about our
No, I'm not talking about little green men from Mars or an alien race from another dimension popularized in sci-fi comics and movies, but rather those celestial objects - primarily asteroids - that have entered our solar system from interstellar space, the vast, distant regions between the stars.
There are hundreds of thousands of asteroids orbiting the neighbourhood of our solar system: debris left over from when the planets formed some 4.5 billion years ago, from the protoplanetary disk of dust ad gas surrounding our newly-formed sun.
Asteroid set to whizz past Earth | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT
A two-kilometre-wide asteroid is set to make a "close approach" to Earth, even if scientists define such a visit as still 6.3 million kilometres away.
Named 1998 OR2, it will be at its closest to Earth around 0955 GMT (1955 AEST) on Wednesday, at which point it will still be 16 times further away from our planet than the moon, according to the website of NASA, the US space agency.
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"As a result, we understand its orbital trajectory very precisely, and we can say with confidence that this asteroid poses no possibility of impact for at least the next 200 years. Its next close approach to Earth will occur in 2079, when it will pass by closer - only about four times the lunar distance," read the NASA statement.
Swarm of 19 mysterious 'alien' asteroids lurking near Jupiter from ANOTHER star system discovered
A GROUP of 19 “alien” asteroids lurking between Jupiter and Neptune may have come from another star system, according to scientists.
The findings come more than two years after astronomers spotted the first interstellar visitor, the asteroid known as ‘Oumuamua.
According to the scientists, unlike ‘Oumuamua, these space rocks have been orbiting the Sun for more than 4.5billion years, since the birth of the Solar System.
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A pair of astronomers announced last week that they had identified 19 alien asteroids circling our sun.
The rocks were probably stolen from other nearby stars 4.5 billion years ago, during the birth throes of the sun. Today they mingle in the sky with a class of asteroids called Centaurs that inhabit outer realms of the solar system between Jupiter and Neptune.
But unlike the rest of the Centaurs, the aliens' orbits take them far out of the plane in which the planets go around the sun, suggesting that they were once circling other stars.
A Star is Orbiting the Milky Way's Black Hole and Moving Exactly How Einstein Predicted it
At the center of our galaxy, roughly 26,000 light-years from Earth, is the Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) known as Sagittarius A* . The powerful gravity of this object and the dense cluster of stars around it provide astronomers with a unique environment for testing physics under the most extreme conditions. In particular, it offers them a chance to test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity (GR).
For example, in the past thirty years, astronomers have been observing a star in the vicinity of Sagittarius A* (S2) to see if its orbit conforms to what is predicted by General Relativity. Recent observations made with the ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have completed an observation campaign that confirmed that the star’s orbit is rosette-shaped , once again proving that Einstein theory was right on the money!
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'Granny is orbiting the planet': Words in a Kerry field
Last October the words "Granny is orbiting the planet", spelled out in large-scale metal letters and supported on posts, appeared on a hillside in Inch, Co Kerry. Not quite Hollywood, but structurally similar.
The words, plucked from a poem, were part of Cosmic Granny, an art installation by Laura Fitzgerald. The letters stand on a slope of Moan Laur, part of her father Micheál's land. (Her father cut out the metre-high letters, with considerable skill.) The materials used – wood, metal, biodegradable water-based paint – are, Fitzgerald says, those typically used on the farm, including to make fencing.
FCC's updated space junk rules reflect increasing number of satellites in orbit - Axios
The FCC last week updated its rules around the mitigation of space junk for the first time since 2004, imposing more limits on companies that wish to send their wares to orbit.
Why it matters: Experts are increasingly worried about the number of satellites launching to orbit and how they could contribute to the creation of space junk.
Why NASA plans to slam the DART spacecraft into an asteroid
DART, NASA's first planetary defense mission, will demonstrate asteroid deflection by crashing the APL-built spacecraft into an asteroid at roughly 14,500 miles per hour.
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An enormous asteroid—big enough to leave a six-mile-wide crater and darken the world with dust if it hit Earth—will harmlessly zip by our planet on April 29. The object, called 1998 OR2, is at least a mile wide , and while it poses no threat, it will pass within four million miles of our planet—close enough to be classified by NASA as "potentially hazardous," because it will continue to make close passes to Earth in the future as both objects orbit the sun.
Iran launches its 1st military satellite into orbit: reports | Space
Iran has apparently lofted its first military satellite into orbit, ending a series of setbacks for the nation's space program.
A two-stage Qassed rocket lifted off from the Markazi Desert in central Iran on Wednesday (April 22) and successfully delivered a military reconnaissance satellite called Nour to orbit, Al-Jazeera reported . The rocket could be seen successfully launching into soace in this video from Iran's Tasnim News Agency and PressTV .
NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 27 April, 2020 - Space Manufacturing Study - SpaceRef
NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy services botany research hardware inside the European Space Agency's Columbus laboratory module. The Veggie PONDS research facility in Columbus supports the growing and harvesting of lettuce and mizuna greens to demonstrate reliable vegetable growth during spaceflight. Credit: NASA. (Apr. 22, 2020)
The International Space Station provides an orbiting research platform that benefits not only human health, but also industry and technology.
Astronomers Have Found a Star That Survived Being Swallowed by a Black Hole
When black holes swallow down massive amounts of matter from the space around them, they're not exactly subtle about it. They belch out tremendous flares of X-rays, generated by the material heating to intense temperatures as it's sucked towards the black hole , so bright we can detect them from Earth.
This is normal black hole behaviour. What isn't normal is for those X-ray flares to spew forth with clockwork regularity, a puzzling behaviour reported last year from a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy 250 million light-years away. Every nine hours, boom - X-ray flare.
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