Science to Meet Art High in Orbit
Inspired by the dream of space exploration, artist Katie Paterson imagined sending a piece of her meteorite artwork back to space in a celebration of science,…
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Voyager 1 Close to Reaching Interstellar Space
Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made…
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Planetary Resources and Citizen Science
Planetary Defense Planetary Resources just announced a collaboration with Zooniverse that will empower citizen scientists to aid in the search for potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 486: Spectroscopy and Photometry Campaign on Three Bright Wolf Rayet Stars
AAVSO Alert Notice 486 Spectroscopy and photometry campaign on three bright Wolf Rayet stars June 26, 2013 Dr. Noel Richardson (Universite de Montreal) is helping coordinate…
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Could an Alien ‘Star Engine’ Be Detectable in Exoplanet Data?
In 1948, astronomer Fritz Zwicky, the esteemed co-discoverer of dark matter, speculated that “fusion jets” could be used by a future civilization to navigate our sun…
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Photographing Our World From 400 Km High
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is spending six months on the International Space Station conducting experiments and keeping the orbital outpost running with five colleague astronauts. In…
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Thawing Arctic Permafrost Could Lead to Climate Change Tipping Point
Flying low and slow above the pristine terrain of Alaska’s North Slope research scientist Charles Miller of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory surveys the white expanse of…
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The ESA’s Billion-Star Surveyor Will Be Launched Into Space Later This Year
Gaia, ESA’s billion-star surveyor, will be launched into space towards the end of this year. In the meantime, ESA Space Science has launched a new ‘minisite’…
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There’s a SuperMoon This Weekend
The night sky is set to be illuminated this weekend by what will appear to be a much bigger and brighter Moon. The so-called “supermoon” occurs…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 485 AG Dra monitoring requested for multiwavelength campaign June 20, 2013 Dr. Andrea Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), has requested AAVSO monitoring of…
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