When it comes to curiosity’s sake, there’s no beating an intimate look under the hood of exotic vehicles and spaceships that inhabit the “Star Wars” universe. Technical sheets and cutaway posters showing the innards of ground combat vehicles, starfighters, battleships, and freighters reveal the geeky details we love to absorb to bolster our relationship with the historic franchise. Now Marvel Comics is capitalizing on our voyeuristic instincts by releasing an upcoming series of “Star Wars” covers that expose the structural details of some of our favorite spaceships flown in that…
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Scientists are using new satellite tech to find glow-in-the-dark milky seas of maritime lore
“The whole appearance of the ocean was like a plain covered with snow. There was scarce a cloud in the heavens, yet the sky … appeared as black as if a storm was raging. The scene was one of awful grandeur, the sea having turned to phosphorus, and the heavens being hung in blackness, and the stars going out, seemed to indicate that all nature was preparing for that last grand conflagration which we are taught to believe is to annihilate this material world.” – Captain Kingman of the American…
Read MoreNebraska Youth to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station
Students participating with the Nebraska 4-H will have an opportunity next week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Read MoreNASA Invites Media to Kennedy for Artemis Activities
NASA is inviting a limited number of media to capture imagery of the fully stacked and integrated Artemis I mission Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Read MoreWatch the 1st teaser trailer for ‘Moonfall,’ Roland Emmerich’s new sci-fi disaster film
The first teaser trailer for Roland Emmerich’s new sci-fi devastation spectacular, “Moonfall” has arrived and it doesn’t disappoint. Emmerich has firmly cemented his reputation as the master of disaster with popular popcorn flicks like “Independence Day,” “2012” and “The Day After Tomorrow” and lest we forget, he also gave us “Stargate.” However, in his latest movie, it isn’t autocratic aliens posing as Egyptian gods threatening civilization through a wormhole connecting two worlds over hundreds of light-years. This time something has caused the moon to be knocked out of orbit and…
Read MoreChina wants to build a mega spaceship that’s nearly a mile long
China is investigating how to build ultra-large spacecraft that are up to 0.6 mile (1 kilometer) long. But how feasible is the idea, and what would be the use of such a massive spacecraft? The project is part of a wider call for research proposals from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a funding agency managed by the country’s Ministry of Science and Technology. A research outline posted on the foundation’s website described such enormous spaceships as “major strategic aerospace equipment for the future use of space resources, exploration…
Read MoreSpace Station Science Highlights: Week of August 30, 2021
Crew members aboard the International Space Station conducted scientific investigations during the week of Aug. 30 that included monitoring gene expression in liver enzymes, testing use of augmented reality for equipment maintenance, and demonstrating a technique for observing sound waves in 3D.
Read MorePast in mind, NASA chief Bill Nelson looks to future on visit to Johnson Space Center
Bill Nelson’s trip to the Johnson Space Center in Houston this week evoked memories of his first visit to the home of U.S. human spaceflight more than 35 years ago. Now a former senator and the current head of NASA, Nelson was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives when he first reported to Johnson in 1985. After several months of training, Nelson became the second congressional observer to fly into Earth orbit, lifting off as a payload specialist on the last space shuttle mission before the Challenger tragedy…
Read MoreNASA Coverage of Rescheduled Spacewalk Preparing for New Solar Array
Astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) will venture outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk Sunday, Sept. 12.
Read MoreAstro News: Planet-eating Stars and an Accidental Brown Dwarf
This week in astronomy news: A citizen scientist happens upon a weird, ancient brown dwarf and astronomers discover that Sun-like stars eat their own planets. The post Astro News: Planet-eating Stars and an Accidental Brown Dwarf appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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