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South Pacific Ocean As Seen From The Space Station
SpaceRef - 23 Jan 2022 02:38
The International Space Station was orbiting 267 miles above the south Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand when this photograph was taken from a window on the seven-windowed cupola....
Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov Works Outside Nauka
SpaceRef - 23 Jan 2022 02:35
Roscosmos cosmonaut and Expedition 66 Commander Anton Shkaplerov (upper right) works outside the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module during a spacewalk that lasted seven hours and 11 minutes....
Astronomers Might Have Detected the Background Gravitational Waves of the Universe
Universe Today - 23 Jan 2022 22:54
A new data release from a gravitational wave consortium has revealed indications of the long sough-after gravitational wave background (GWB). The post Astronomers Might Have Detected the Background Gravitational Waves of...
A Worldwide Search for Dark Matter Fails to Turn up a Signal for This Mysterious Particle
Universe Today - 23 Jan 2022 19:10
A global search for dark matter turns up nothing, but than in itself is useful. The post A Worldwide Search for Dark Matter Fails to Turn up a Signal for This Mysterious Particle appeared first on Universe Today.
With Webb Safely Launched, Focus Shifts to the Ariane 6
Universe Today - 23 Jan 2022 18:32
Last month, an Ariane 5 rocket carried the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) safely to space, the latest of 112 total launches for the European Space Agency's (ESA) primary workhorse rocket. With a 95.5% success rate, th...
NASA JSC SpaceCast Weekly 22 January, 2022
SpaceRef - 23 Jan 2022 17:58
SpaceCast Weekly is a NASA Television broadcast from the Johnson Space Center in Houston featuring stories about NASA's work in human spaceflight....
This Week at NASA - Massive Volcanic Eruption and More
SpaceRef - 23 Jan 2022 17:47
A commercial mission returning cargo from the space station, the first space station spacewalk of the year, and observing a massive volcanic eruption from space... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NA...
Could the Earth ever stop spinning, and what would happen if it did?
SPACE.com - 23 Jan 2022 14:52
If Earth were to stop spinning but continue to orbit the sun, a "day" would last half a year, and so would the night.
NASA upgrades its asteroid hazard software to use sunlight
SPACE.com - 23 Jan 2022 14:51
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) just upgraded the software it uses to assess potentially hazardous asteroids
Earth inhales and exhales carbon in mesmerizing animation
SPACE.com - 23 Jan 2022 14:51
A new animation of Earth shows vegetation taking up and releasing carbon in sync with the seasons.
Thomas Pesquet: 1st French astronaut to command the International Space Station
SPACE.com - 23 Jan 2022 14:51
Thomas Pesquet is a European Space Agency astronaut who was the first person from France to command the International Space Station.
On National Security | Solar power from space: Will it ever get off the ground?
Space News - 23 Jan 2022 13:00
Space-based solar power is an idea that has been studied for decades. But even though the United States was a pioneer in this technology, government interest in taking it from the lab to orbit has been tepid at best. The...
Clouds Over The Great Lakes
SpaceRef - 23 Jan 2022 02:34
Mid-winter in North America often brings blasts of cold wind blowing south from the Arctic or the Canadian interior....