To Celebrate Voyager’s 40th Anniversary, NASA Beams a Message to the Spacecraft
On Sept. 5, 2017 – the 40th anniversary of Voyager 1’s launch — NASA revealed the winning Message To Voyager and beamed it into space. “Message…
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Interstellar ‘Tsunami Waves’ Buffet Voyager 1
Since 2012, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced three ‘tsunami waves’ in interstellar space. The most recent, which reached the spacecraft earlier this year, is still…
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New Horizons Spacecraft Reaches Neptune Orbit Crossing Milestone
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make…
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Smaller Than Ever
Jupiter’s trademark Great Red Spot — a swirling anti-cyclonic storm larger than Earth — has shrunk to its smallest size ever measured. According to Amy Simon…
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A Real Find – Carl Sagan’s 1977 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
I remember being glued to the TV just after Christmas in 1977 as Carl Sagan delivered that years’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. This was in the…
Read the articleNew Detailed Geologic Map of Ganymede
More than 400 years after its discovery by astronomer Galileo Galilei, the largest moon in the solar system – Jupiter’s moon Ganymede – has finally claimed…
Read the articleSpace Can Make Music … if You Know How to Listen
Scifi movies are sometimes criticized when explosions in the void make noise. As the old saying goes, “in space, no one can hear you scream.” Without…
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Ingredient of Household Plastic Discovered on Titan by Cassini
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used to make food-storage containers, car bumpers and other consumer products, on Saturn’s moon Titan. This is the…
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Comet ISON May Be Comet of the Year, Not the Century
The countdown clock is ticking to comet ISON’s hair-raising passage around the sun on Nov. 28, as it grazes the sun at a distance of only…
Read the articleMilestone: Voyager 1 Officially Leaves the Solar System for Interstellar Space
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers)…
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