Binge-watching all the Marvel movies in chronological order is a right of passage for any hardcore MCU fan, and if it’s one you’ve yet to complete, there’s no better time to start. With Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in cinemas now, now’s the perfect time to get up to speed on this universe’s timeline before you get introduced to a whole load of others. But if the thought of binge-watching 28 films in a row is more than a little daunting for you, don’t worry. We’re here to…
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On This Day In Space: May 16, 2011: Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on final flight
On May 16, 2011, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on its 25th and final flight. This was also the penultimate mission of the entire shuttle program. Five NASA astronauts and one Italian astronaut made up the STS-134 crew. They launched from Kennedy Space Center and spent nearly 16 days in orbit. The first two days were spent catching up to the International Space Station. NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour: 6 Surprising Facts Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off at 8:56 a.m. EDT on May 16 on its final flight – STS-134. (Image…
Read MoreAfter snapping a photo of the Milky Way’s monster black hole, scientists dream of videos
Fresh off revealing its first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Event Horizon Telescope is ready to take its next steps by capturing movies of gas flowing turbulently onto a black hole. The two black hole images the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has produced so far — that of Sagittarius A* in the Milky Way and that of the black hole at the center of the galaxy M87 — are snapshots in time. Black holes are constantly churning as gas orbits around it surface,…
Read MoreNASA’s Lucy asteroid probe will watch the Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse from deep space tonight
Like a flashlight beam penetrating the dark, the moon’s reflected sunlight will blink on and off during a lunar eclipse just visible by an asteroid-bound spacecraft. A NASA spacecraft called Lucy plans to take a side view of the Super Flower Blood Mmoon lunar eclipse of May 15 on its way to visit clusters of asteroids that orbit the sun at about the same distance as Jupiter, called Trojans. The spacecraft, which launched in October 2021, is on a path back to Earth for a gravity assist to the outer…
Read MoreThe Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse of 2022 occurs tonight! Here’s what to expect.
It’s time to watch the moon make a passage through Earth’s shadow. The event, known as a lunar eclipse, will see the full Flower Moon temporarily turn red overnight on Sunday (May 15) and Monday (May 16), depending on where you are standing. You can watch the Flower Blood Moon eclipse in webcasts, starting at 9:30 p.m. EDT (0130 GMT). While timing depends on your location, here’s when to look for the total eclipse. TimeandDate.com says the partial eclipse phase of the moon begins May 15 at 10:28 p.m. EDT…
Read MoreThe moon photobombs a sunset in this otherworldly solar eclipse image
A collage of 21 images shows the eclipsed sun setting over the Atacama Desert in Chile on April 30, 2022. (Image credit: P. Horálek/ESO) On April 30, skywatchers gathered to watch the sunset over Atacama Desert, Chile — and to witness a much rarer phenomenon. Before the sun passed below the horizon, the moon intercepted Earth’s view, temporarily blocking a small portion of the sun’s circle in the first partial solar eclipse of 2022. That phenomenon is on display in a fascinating collage, released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO)…
Read MoreOn This Day In Space: May 14, 1973: NASA launches Skylab space station
On May 13, 1964, NASA launched the second abort test of the Apollo spacecraft. This uncrewed mission would demonstrate that the launch escape system could safely eject the Apollo command module in case of an emergency. For the first test, the command module ejected just above the launchpad 15 seconds after liftoff. But the second time it stayed on top of the rocket for 44 seconds. It reached an altitude of almost 30,000 feet, which was six times higher than it went during the first test. The Little Joe II…
Read MoreSatellite spies sunken Russian ship off Ukraine’s wartorn Snake Island (photos)
Tiny Snake Island has hosted some fierce fighting during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as new satellite photos show. Snake Island is a 42-acre (17 hectares) speck of land in the Black Sea, about 28 miles (45 kilometers) off the Romanian coast. Russia captured it from Ukraine in late February, a few days after the invasion began, but the battle for control of the strategically important island continues. On Thursday (May 12), for example, Maxar Technologies’ GeoEye-1 spacecraft snapped a series of photos of Snake Island, one of which appears…
Read MoreSpaceX will launch 53 more Starlink satellites and land rocket today. Watch it live.
SpaceX plans to launch and land a rocket on Saturday (May 14), its second such effort in less than 24 hours. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket carrying 53 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites is scheduled to lift off Saturday at 4:40 p.m. EDT (2040 GMT) from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. If all goes according to plan, the rocket’s first stage will come back to Earth and land at sea on the SpaceX droneship Just Read the Instructions about nine minutes after liftoff. You can watch all of this…
Read MoreSpace Station Science Highlights: Week of May 9, 2022
Crew members aboard the International Space Station conducted scientific investigations during the week of May 9 that included testing the effects of spaceflight on hearing, monitoring blood flow in the brain, and demonstrating function of a medical diagnostic device in microgravity.
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