Expect the Unexpected From the Rosetta Mission
An image snapped earlier this month by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft shows its target comet has quietened, demonstrating the unpredictable nature of these enigmatic objects. The picture…
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The Celestron Evolution Is Here
The Nexstar Evolution is a Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope that has built-in WiFi. That means that it’s possible to control the motorized mount fully through your smartphone or…
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Water Building Molecule Found Around Old Sun-Like Stars
Using ESA’s Herschel space observatory, astronomers have discovered that a molecule vital for creating water exists in the burning embers of dying Sun-like stars. When low-…
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NASA Hopes Titan Flyby Will Provide Valuable New Insights
As NASA’s Cassini spacecraft zooms toward Saturn’s smoggy moon Titan for a targeted flyby on June 18, mission scientists are excitedly hoping to repeat a scientific…
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Detailed Radar Images of a Near-Earth Asteroid Captured
NASA scientists using Earth-based radar have produced sharp views of a recently discovered asteroid as it slid silently past our planet. Captured on June 8, 2014,…
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Weird Ring of Dusty Material Seen by Herschel
The Herschel Space Observatory has uncovered a weird ring of dusty material while obtaining one of the sharpest scans to date of a huge cloud of…
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Where on Earth Is It?
This video features some spectacular imagery from Earth-observing satellites. From this perspective, even some of the most familiar places can be difficult to recognise. Can you…
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The Trans-Neptunian Worlds Discovered by the Herschel Space Telescope
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has observed 132 of the known 1400 cold worlds that inhabit a region of the Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune,…
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High Definition Message Beamed by Laser From ISS
NASA successfully beamed a high-definition video 260 miles from the International Space Station to Earth Thursday using a new laser communications instrument. Transmission of “Hello, World!”…
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When Galaxies Collide
Galaxies are not as isolated as they at first glance may seem; on a cosmic scale they congregate in clumps along with dark matter and hot…
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