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Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory have captured a new image of the nebula IC 2944, also known as the “Running Chicken,” Sci.News reports. IC 2944 is located at a distance of almost 6.5 thousand kilometers. light years from Earth in the constellation Centauri. The brightest zone of the […]
Space Perspective, a space travel company, has unveiled the first prototype of the completed design of the Neptune test capsule. It is designed to lift tourists into space on a special “space balloon.” Space Perspective plans to offer commercial flights and will deliver passengers to altitudes of up to 30,480 meters using a pressurized capsule […]
The new image of NGC 2264, also known as the “Christmas Tree,” is a cluster of young stars between one and five million years old in the Milky Way at a distance of about 2,500 light-years from Earth. This was reported by the NASA press service. The stars in NGC 2264 are both smaller and […]
SpaceX continues to prepare for the third launch of the world’s largest rocket, the Starship. A static fire test of the engines was conducted the day before. The space company has tested a new Starship prototype at a launch complex in South Texas. “The Starship for the third flight passed a full duration static fire […]
China’s third test mission of a reusable robotic spacecraft continues to generate speculation, sending half a dozen small objects into orbit that intrigued amateur observers have tentatively called “wings.” The experimental orbiter, called Shenlong (Chinese for “divine dragon”), was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Thursday, December 14, on a Long March 2F […]
NASA has sent a video of a cat to Earth using a laser from deep space, Space.com reports. In the ultra-high resolution video, you can see Tatters, a ginger cat, running after the dot of a laser pointer. The video was sent as part of the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment. DSOC technology allows […]
On Tuesday, December 19, Blue Origin successfully completed its 24th mission and first in more than 15 months. The launch was carried out after a series of delays, the flight lasted 10 minutes. The first stage, as planned, landed near the launch pad, and the capsule reached the Karman line, returned to Earth and made […]
China’s reusable space plane has become even more mysterious. Four days after the launch of its third mission, the Shenlong (“Divine Dragon”) spacecraft launched six objects into Earth orbit. For several days, they were observed by amateur spacecraft around the world, which recorded radiation from some of them, Space.com reports. The six mysterious objects were […]
NASA has transmitted ultra-high resolution video to Earth from a near-infrared laser transceiver as part of the Deep Space Optical Communications or DSOC experiment. In the future, the technology could be used to transmit data, images, and video faster from places as far away as Mars (when humans eventually reach it). The 15-second video was […]
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has published a photo of the Orion Nebula, which shows fragmentary lines left by satellites during a five-hour night survey. Space traffic!! This pic of the Orion Nebula I shot last night shows just how packed the equatorial plane is thanks to geostationary satellites. I can process these out (very easy) but […]