Astronomy's dirty window to space: A detailed map of dust in the Milky Way
When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...
NASA’s Newest Telescope Just Woke Up and It’s About to Change Astronomy
NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.
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An issue with a ground system that supports the Falcon 9 rocket led to a postponement of at least one day of the latest rotation of space station crews. By Kenneth Chang The SPHEREx telescope ...
The ASTRO Act | Bipartisan legislation hopes to prevent 'spaceport' bottlenecking
New legislation introduced Wednesday hopes to make it easier for the United States to expand into the next frontier: space travel. The legislation entitled 'Alleviating Spaceport Traffic by Rewarding ...
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NASA's New Space Telescope Launches to Explore the Origins of the Universe After a Series of Delays
NASA’s newest space telescope, called SPHEREx, finally got off the ground this week, after a series of delays that had stalled its launch since late February. From low-Earth orbit, it will gather data ...
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Astronomy’s dirty window to space
Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...
Eerie video of Starship falling from space in flames shows why Florida planes were briefly grounded
SpaceX lost the video feed from Starship as it spiraled out of control, but an amateur astronomer in Florida recorded its explosive fall from space.
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Space and Astronomy
By Kenneth Chang The former Google chief executive is taking a controlling interest in Relativity Space, which aims to build low-cost, reusable rockets to compete against Elon Musk’s SpaceX and ...