Many writers have looked back at the events surrounding the first moon landings and found opportunities to explore “what if?” What if the Soviet Union had landed a cosmonaut first? What if President John F. Kennedy had never been assassinated, would humans still have made it to the moon in the 1960s? What if astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had really been launched to the moon on a clandestine mission to investigate the crash site of an alien spacecraft? For Chris Hadfield, though, when he looked back, he saw…
Read MoreMonth: October 2021
How to Photograph the Northern Lights
Follow these tips to help capture auroral displays. The post How to Photograph the Northern Lights appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MoreMars Sample Return Artist’s Concept
Concept for a set of future robots working together to ferry back samples from the surface of Mars collected by the Mars Perseverance rover.
Read MoreJoin the #Crew3 Virtual Social Celebrating NASA & ESA Astronauts Launching to the Space Station
Social media users are invited to take part in another global virtual NASA Social for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission set to launch on Oct. 30 at 2:43 a.m. ET, now cohosted along with our partners at European Space Agency (ESA).
Read MoreThis Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon set is over $31 off at Amazon right now
Can you build this Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon model in less than 12 parsecs? Because you can save over $31 when you get it from Amazon in this brilliant pre-Black Friday deal. With the holiday season right around the corner, Amazon is offering 20% off this 1,351-piece set that would make a perfect gift to any Jedi knight in your life. The set normally retails for $160, but you can get it now for $128. It’s not just the out-of-this world savings and sheer number of Lego pieces that…
Read MoreRoger Chaffee: Engineer, aviator and Apollo 1 astronaut
Since childhood, Roger Chaffee dreamt of becoming an astronaut and, when he was selected to be in NASA’s third group of astronauts, that goal became a reality, according to NASA’s History Division. Unfortunately, this success was followed by tragedy, as Chaffee became one of the three fatalities in what was the U.S. space program’s first major disaster. Less than a month before Chaffee’s first voyage to space, a flash fire killed him along with the rest of the Apollo 1 crew as the three astronauts underwent a preflight test on…
Read MoreGiant space bubble reveals reverse shockwaves from a catastrophic star explosion
NASA telescopes have captured the colorful blast of a stellar explosion thousands of years ago, shedding new light on the evolution of such cosmic remains. When a star reaches the end of its life, it explodes in a bright burst called a supernova. White dwarfs are the dim, fading corpses of stars that have exhausted most of their nuclear fuel and shed their outer layers. Having shrunk to a relatively small size, white dwarfs are considered among the most stable of stars, given they can last for billions or even…
Read MoreNASA Selects Gamma-ray Telescope to Chart Milky Way Evolution
NASA has selected a new space telescope proposal that will study the recent history of star birth, star death, and the formation of chemical elements in the Milky Way.
Read MoreJupiter Whacked Again? Japanese Astronomers Record Possible Impact
A group of Japanese astronomers just discovered a potential new impact at the planet Jupiter. The post Jupiter Whacked Again? Japanese Astronomers Record Possible Impact appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MoreNASA to Provide TV Coverage of Russian Station Cargo Ship Activities
NASA will provide coverage as an uncrewed Russian cargo spacecraft arrives to a new port at the International Space Station this week, and as another Russian freighter launches and docks to the orbiting outpost next week.
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