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The Event Horizon Telescope team has published a new, most detailed image of the black hole M87, which was created using an additional telescope and independent data collected in 2018. The team of the telescope reported this on its website. The previous image was taken in 2017, but with the new improvements, the team has […]
The latest photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope captures the collision of two spiral galaxies, NGC 6040 and LEDA 59642, at a distance of about 570 million light years from Earth. This incredible cosmic event looks spectacular and dynamic, but in fact it is quite slow and will take hundreds of millions of years. […]
SpaceX has launched 23 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit using a Falcon 9 rocket, Space reports. A Falcon 9 carrying 23 Starlink satellites was launched from Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida on January 15 at 03:52 Kyiv time. Falcon 9 delivered 23 Starlink satellites into orbit from Florida, completing our 300th successful launch! SpaceX The […]
SpaceX plans to conduct 150 space launches this year, up from 96 in 2023, with about a dozen of them to be Starship flights. The head of the company believes that he has found out the reasons for the explosion of the ship during its last, third, test flight, and this allows him to hope […]
NASA astronomers have discovered an unexpected “signal” coming from outside our galaxy that they cannot explain. This was reported by Science Alert. According to Francis Reddy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, it was “an unexpected and as yet unexplained feature outside our galaxy.” The powerful Fermi Space Telescope can detect gamma rays, which are […]
Residents of the Kanto region of Japan saw a bright meteor in the sky on Monday, January 15, in the morning, according to the Japanese edition of NHK. Fuji Daichi, a curator specializing in astronomy at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, spoke about the meteor. According to him, cameras installed in […]
The SpaceX and Starlink founder presented his plans for 2024 at his annual press conference in Boca Chica. According to Elon Musk, SpaceX has reached a record number of Falcon rocket launches over the past year – 96 times, which is the largest number of rocket launches in one year in history. This is an […]
Scottish engineers have shown a prototype of one of the rocket stages that burns itself for flight, which replaces up to 16 percent of its fuel. So far, the prototype has not been tested for flight, but only as a demonstration of the thrust that can be generated by the rocket’s self-immolation. However, in the […]
On January 11, China successfully launched a new Gravity-1 rocket created by the Chinese company Orienspace. A massive rocket was launched from the deck of a ship in the Yellow Sea. Gravity-1 can deliver about 6,500 kg of payload to low Earth orbit. It became China’s most powerful commercial rocket, as well as the most […]
NASA reported that thanks to the new tools, the lid of the container with samples of the asteroid Bennu was opened after 3.5 months of attempts and expectations. According to scientists, the study of these samples can give a better understanding of the early history of the solar system, because the Bennu astroid has existed […]