Month: October 2022

Get $70 off the Celestron AstroMaster 130 EQ telescope

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If you’re looking for a way to get into astronomy or looking for something to inspire a budding stargazer, grabbing $70 off the Celestron AstroMaster 130EQ telescope (opens in new tab) could be exactly what you’re looking for.  The $70 discount is a pretty good deal as it’s the lowest price we’ve seen for this scope for a while and it’s a worthwhile model. Celestron AstroMaster telescopes feature in our guides for best telescopes for beginners and budget telescopes under $500. On top of that, there are a number of…

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See NASA destroy its vintage Marshall Space Flight Center headquarters (video)

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NASA destroyed one of its own vintage buildings early Saturday (Oct. 29), sending the vintage structure off with a literal bang. The space agency intentionally demolished its historic Building 4200, which served as the administrative headquarters of Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama from 1963 to 2020. The building is being removed to “make way for a series of new, state-of-the-art facilities tailored to help NASA map out the next century’s worth of discoveries in space,” agency officials said in a statement this month (opens in new tab). NASA…

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 35 —A Man on the Moon with author Andy Chaikin

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Space writer Andrew Chaikin poses for a photo with Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, during a 2002 Apollo anniversary event at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum. Chaikin is holding photo of the duo taken by Armstrong in September 1971, at NASA HQ, using Chaikin’s father’s Minox camera. (Image credit: Victoria Kohl) On this episode of This Week in Space (opens in new tab), Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with acclaimed author Andy Chaikin (opens in new tab) about his epic Apollo book…

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NASA to Provide Update on Artemis I Moon Mission

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NASA will host a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT Thursday, Nov. 3, to discuss the status of its Artemis I flight test that will launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The uncrewed mission will send the Orion spacecraft beyond the Moon and back to Earth before future missions with crew.

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Astronomy: The oldest scientific discipline

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Astronomy is one of the oldest scientific disciplines that has evolved from the humble beginnings of counting stars and charting constellations with the naked eye to the impressive showcase of humankind’s technological capabilities that we see today.  Despite the progress astronomy has made over millennia, astronomers are still working hard to understand the nature of the universe and humankind’s place in it. That question has only gotten more complex as our understanding of the universe grew with our expanding technical capabilities.  As the depths of the sky opened in front…

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Hubble Space Telescope watches galaxies’ destructive dance in new photo

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These galaxies may look like they are performing a cosmic waltz, but the spirals are actually trapped in a dance of death that will someday end in a violent crash. The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured an image of two galaxies dubbed ESO 364-65 and ESO 364-66, which are collectively known as Arp-Madore 608-333, gradually warping each other with their gravitational forces.  The telescope, which is managed by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), took the image while was turning around, ESA officials noted in a statement. The photo…

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Everything we know about Dune: Part 2

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It’s going to be a long wait before we get our first official look at Dune: Part 2, but we already know plenty of juicy details about the upcoming science fiction epic from Denis Villeneuve.  Dune: Part 2 has to live up to high expectations following the first film’s massive success. Even though many readers and sci-fi diehards had doubts about how well Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel could be translated into the big screen after several so-so attempts, Villeneuve and his team managed to crack the code last year and…

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