Goss: Morning planets race eastward | Local News
Our morning sky presents a good demonstration that the planets do indeed move, and that they all don’t move at the same rate, nor always in the same direction. …
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50 years ago, a Soviet spacecraft spent a critical 50 minutes on Venus
There is no place like Earth, but there may have been billions of years ago. Fifty years ago on March 27, 1972, Venera-8, a Soviet atmospheric space probe and …
What’s up in April: It’s spring, a good reason to get out and look up to the skies
SKYGUIDE: This map represents the night sky as it appears over Maine during April. The stars are shown as they appear at 10:30 pm early in the month, at …
Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Captures the Full Sun in Unprecedented Detail
Animation of ESA’s Sun-explorer Solar Orbiter. Credit: ESA/Medialab Solar Orbiter’s latest images show the full Sun in unprecedented detail. They were taken on March 7, 2022, when the spacecraft …
SpaceX’s private Ax-1 astronaut flight has been allowed to launch pending test of NASA’s Artemis 1 lunar rocket
Commercial spaceflight company Axiom Space was allowed to launch the world’s first entirely private mission to the International Space Station in April, but only after a critical test of …
The change and constancy of April skies – Longmont Times-Call
One truism of the natural world is that the more things change, the more they stay the same. April nights are no exception. March’s abundance of planetary conjunctions continues …
5,000 exoplanets have been discovered!
Scientific publication for the weekend With Mathilde Fontes, Editor-in-Chief of The Scientific Journal Epsilon And the Look at the sky today because The NASA astronomers They just announced that …
What are the most common elements in the human body?
There are 118 items on the periodIc table, and you might think we are made up of many of them. But that’s not the case; the complex systems that …
Artemis 1 rolls to pad; Next up: Wet dress rehearsal
Scott Johnson March 26th, 2022 The Artemis 1 Space Launch System rocket at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B on the morning of March 18, 2022. Credit: Scott Johnson/Spaceflight …
The hardy wild grass that could save our bread — ScienceDaily
An obscure species of wild grass contains “blockbuster” disease resistance that can be cross bred into wheat to give immunity against one of the deadliest crop pathogens. A collaborative …
China’s Venus Mission Similar To NASA’s Mars Visit! New Space Race To Find Other Life Forms Now Starting
China’s Venus mission might really happen as the Chinese government shows intent in expanding its planetary exploration efforts. (Photo: Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)This photo taken on November …
UCI researchers first to sample permafrost CO2 emissions during fall and winter
Newswise — Irvine, Calif., March 24, 2022 — The Arctic is warming along with the rest of the planet, and as this is happening, its permafrost – perennially frozen …