NASA sends squids to space. Plus, the world's wealthiest man makes out-of-this-world travel arrangements, and a soccer star talks game with an orbiting astronaut. VOA's Arash Arabasadi brings us the Week in Space.
:: OSEL.CZ :: - A massive, mysterious object orbiting a giant star in the center of the Milky Way
“what the hell?” Astronomers are embarrassed, in the most pleasant way possible, of the giant VVV-WIT-08, which is about 25,000 light-years away. During 2012, it was blacked out in a totally crazy way. For a few months, he practically disappeared from the sky. Then it’s back again and we have a mystery no match for Tabby’s star.
The cluster of suspicious stars was recently expanded by the mysterious giant VVV-WIT-08, located near the center of the Milky Way, in the constellation Scorpius, about 25,000 light-years away. The middle three letters in the star designation, i.e. "WIT" mean "What is this?". Astronomers are no biscuit, but they don’t waste a lot of emotion in naming space objects. So we can make sure it’s something interesting.
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NASA Picturing Earth: Window On The World [Video]
From their orbiting home on the International Space Station (ISS), astronauts have a view unlike anything most of us will ever see. In the past 20 years, they have shot millions of photographs, and it is not just a hobby. It is an important scientific job, and one they need to be trained to do. So the astronauts and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing team work together before, during, and after every mission to get the most out of every shot.
You have to know the proper settings and tools for your camera. You need to zoom and focus and adjust to the lighting.
World-renowned soccer star Kylian Mbappé talks cosmic kicks with space station astronaut | Space
French soccer sensation, Kylian Mbappé could hardly contain his excitement as he became the first soccer player to chat with someone in outer space when called French astronaut Thomas Pesquet on the International Space Station this month.
Pesquet and Mbappé spoke for 20 minutes as the space station orbited over Europe. On this Earth-to-space call, the two chatted about the difficulties of being in space and incredible science that's done on the orbiting lab among other topics.
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Moody Planetarium reopens after pandemic shutdown
After being shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Moody Planetarium at the Museum of Texas Tech is now open.
The planetarium has shows Tuesday through Sunday and is closed on Mondays. There are no capacity limits and masks are not required.
Daycares and summer camps are welcome. Cash and credit cards are accepted for admission and group rates are available for groups 10 or more.
• Astrobreaks: Astrobreaks is a new program of the Museum of Texas Tech University Moody Planetarium that projects the Saturday night sky to show you what constellations and stars will be visible Saturday evening.
China plans to carry out near-Earth asteroid sample and return mission around 2025 - Global Times
China on Friday unveiled the first batch of images from the Tianwen-1 spacecraft's landing on Mars. The images ...
ISS National Lab to Host Session at World Stem Cell Summit on Regenerative Medicine in Low Earth
Press Release From: Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS)
Posted: Friday, June 11, 2021
The Expanse! Stem Cell Research on the International Space Station – Impact on Health, Aging, and Human Survival session will take place on Wednesday, June 17, from 11:00 a.m. ET- 12:00 p.m. ET and will be moderated by Dr. Marc Giulianotti, senior program director for the ISS National Lab. The following panelists will join him:
China set to launch first astronauts to space station with Shenzhou-12 - SpaceNews
HELSINKI — China rolled out a Long March 2F rocket Wednesday in preparation to send the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and three astronauts to an orbiting space station module.
The Long March 2F rocket was vertically transferred to its pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) announced Wednesday.
The rocket will send Shenzhou-12 and three astronauts to the Tianhe core module for China's space station which launched April 28 Eastern.
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