PARIS — Heads of the world’s major space agencies presented their big plans for the coming years at a major congress in Paris, while underlining the serious challenges that could affect space and humanity. Officials from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) took to the stage Sept. 18 at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2022 in Paris. The first major mission milestone discussed is already speeding along. “This weekend, at 15,000 miles an hour,…
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Texas Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station
Houston area students will have an opportunity this week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Read MoreA Stormy Stellar Nursery
This cloudy, turbulent scene shows a stellar nursery within the Large Magellanic Cloud known as N159.
Read MoreSatellites watch Hurricane Fiona wallop Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic
Satellites are watching as Hurricane Fiona, currently a Category 1 storm, pummels Caribbean islands. Hurricane Fiona made landfall over Puerto Rico on Sunday (Sept. 18), bringing high winds and heavy rain and taking down the island’s power grid, according to the Washington Post (opens in new tab). Puerto Rico is home to 3.2 million people; the storm comes five years after the island was battered by Hurricane Maria. Even as rain continues to fall over Puerto Rico, the storm has hit the Dominican Republic, according to CNN (opens in new…
Read MoreSky-Watcher Star Adventurer mini star tracker review
You can take a long exposure image of the night sky with any manual camera, but only a motorised star tracker like the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Mini (SAM) will allow you to expose for longer than 30 seconds before the stars begin to trail and blur. Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer mini: Key specs Weight: 650g (mount only) Dimensions: 76x70x103mm (mount only) Max. lens focal length: 100mm Max. payload: 3KG Power: 2x AA batteries or external portable battery Tripod thread: 3/8-inch and 1/4 inch Alignment method: Polar scope That’s because Earth’s moving…
Read MoreClassified UFO videos would ‘harm national security’ if released, Navy says
The U.S. Navy holds unseen videos of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), as the Department of Defense (DOD) prefers to call them — but will not release the footage publicly because it would “harm national security,” a Navy spokesperson wrote (opens in new tab) Wednesday (Sept. 7). The admission came in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the government transparency site The Black Vault, which has previously shared thousands of pages of UFO-related documents (opens in new tab) received via…
Read MoreThe James Webb Space Telescope has released its very first exoplanet image – here’s what we can learn from it
This series of four images for the James Webb Space Telescope shows the first exoplanet (star) seen by the powerful infrared telescope. (Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA, A Carter (UCSC), the ERS 1386 team, and A. Pagan (STScI)) This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Did you ever want to see an alien world? A planet orbiting a distant star, light years from the Sun? Well, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just returned its first-ever picture of just that — a planet…
Read MoreOn This Day In Space: Sept. 18, 1977: Voyager 1 takes 1st photo of Earth-moon system
On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and the moon were captured in a single frame. At the time, Voyager 1 was more than 7 million miles away from Earth. It had launched about two weeks earlier on a mission to explore the outer planets. Related: Voyager: 40 Photos from NASA’s Epic ‘Grand Tour’ Mission This image of the Earth and moon in a single frame, the first of its kind ever taken…
Read MoreWhat is the moon phase today? Lunar phases 2022
This page was updated on Sept. 17, 2022. The moon phases and dates for September 2022. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Today, Sept. 17, 2022, the moon is 21 days old and is at the waning gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is officially the Last Quarter Moon of September 2022 and is 52% illuminated. In September 2022, the moon’s phases will occur on the following dates: First Quarter: Sept. 3Full Moon: Sept. 10Last Quarter: Sept. 17New Moon: Sept. 25 Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky.…
Read MoreOn This Day In Space: Sept. 17, 1789: Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ moon Mimas discovered
On Sept. 17, 1789, the British astronomer William Herschel discovered Saturn’s “Death Star” moon, Mimas. Meet Mimas: Saturn’s Death Star Moon Of course, “Star Wars” wasn’t a thing at the time, and no one had ever heard of something called a “Death Star.” But there’s no denying that this moon looks just like it. This mosaic, created from images taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during its closest flyby of Saturn’s moon Mimas on Feb. 13, 2010, looks straight at the moon’s Herschel crater and reveals new insights about the moon’s…
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