Tag: NASA
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NASA astronauts complete power upgrade spacewalk
NASA has said two of its astronauts — Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson — have completed the first of two power upgrade spacewalks at 1.55 pm EST (12.25 am Saturday, IST). During the six-hour-and-thirty-two-minute spacewalk, the two NASA astronauts successfully installed three new adapter plates and hooked up electrical connections …
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January 7, 2017 -
Hubble spots exocomets taking plunge onto young star
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered exocomets — comets outside our solar system — plunging onto a young star that resides 95 light-years from Earth. This star, called HD 172555, represents the third extrasolar system where astronomers have detected doomed, wayward comets. All of the systems are young, under 40 million years old, NASA said …
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January 7, 2017 -
NASA selects 2 missions to explore asteroids
Aiming to find important clues to the earliest history of the solar system, NASA has announced two missions — one to explore Jupiter's mysterious Trojan asteroids and the other to study a unique metal asteroid. The missions, known as Lucy and Psyche, were chosen from five finalists and will proceed to mission formulation, with the …
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January 5, 2017 -
NASA to send first African-American to space station in 2018
Jeanette Epps will become the first African-American space station crew member when she launches on her first spaceflight in May 2018, NASA said. The New York native spent seven years as a CIA technical intelligence officer before being selected as a member of the 2009 astronaut class, the US space agency said in a statement …
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January 5, 2017 -
NASA mission to study black holes
NASA plans to launch a $188 million science mission in 2020 that will allow astronomers to explore, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most extreme and exotic astronomical objects, such as stellar and supermassive black holes, neutron stars and pulsars. Objects such as black holes can heat surrounding gases to …
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January 4, 2017 -
NASA captures image of ISS crossing Sun
NASA has captured a spectacular image of the International Space Station (ISS) making its way in front of the Sun at a speed of about 28,968 kilometres per hour. Noel Kowsky, a lensman working for NASA captured the photograph of the orbital post just when it was about to make a transit in front of …
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January 2, 2017 -
Saturn’s north pole basks in sunlight
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured a stunning image of Saturn, showing the whole northern region of the ringed planet bathed in sunlight. The image from late 2016 obtained at a distance of about 1.2 million kilometres from Saturn shows a hexagon-shaped jet-stream which is fully illuminated. The planet appears darker in regions where the cloud …
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January 2, 2017 -
NASA captures image of ISS crossing Sun
A NASA photographer has captured a stunning image of the International Space Station (ISS) making its way in front of the Sun at a speed of about 28,968 kilometres per hour. Noel Kowsky, a lensman working for NASA captured the photograph of the ISS just when it was about to make a transit in front …
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January 1, 2017 -
Proof of alien existence on Red Planet
Three tall “towers” standing in a perfect straight line on our neighbouring planet Mars in a recent image are claimed by some UFO and alien enthusiasts as clear evidence that highly intelligent beings exist there. According to the author of a video posted on YouTube channel called Mundodesconocido, the image shows three “towers” about 4.8 …
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December 14, 2016 -
NASA’s Cassini probe set to fly closest to Saturn rings
NASA said its Cassini mission is set to begin on November 30 a daring set of “ring-grazing” orbits, during which it will fly closer to Saturns rings than it has since its 2004 arrival. On November 30, following a gravitational nudge from Saturn's moon Titan, Cassini will enter the first phase of the mission's dramatic …
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November 23, 2016 -
NASA’s Peggy Whitson set to be the oldest astronaut
At the age of 56, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is set to be the oldest woman in space when she launches for a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday. Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) will …
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November 17, 2016 -
NASA renews hunt for Antarctic meteorites
To help learn more about the primitive building blocks of the solar system and answer questions about Earths neighbours like the moon and Mars, three federal entities in the US, including NASA, are reaffirming their commitment to search for Antarctic meteorites. NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Smithsonian Institution (SI) recently renewed their …
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November 16, 2016 -
Brown dwarf in space
The discovery of this brown dwarf, with the unwieldy name OGLE-2015-BLG-1319, marks the first time two space telescopes have collaborated to observe a microlensing event.
November 11, 2016