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From the beginning of June, Earthlings can enjoy a parade of five visible planets. Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter will be bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. Uranium is also on the line, but it requires dark skies and binoculars to detect it. At this time, Neptune will be present in […]
Elon Musk gave a long interview at the Future of the Car conference for the Financial Times, where he talked about Tesla’s plans. In particular, we talked about another company of billionaires – SpaceX. Musk believes that SpaceX could send the Starship unmanned spacecraft to Mars “in 3-5 years.” But before that, the company must […]
On April 8, SpaceX launched its Crew Dragon Endeavor manned spacecraft with private astronauts on board to the International Space Station (ISS). The flight is organized by Axiom Space, a startup that bookings from SpaceX and coordinates ISS flights with NASA for anyone who can afford it. The multinational crew of the Ax-1 mission is […]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has withdrawn SpaceX’s request to expand its launch complexes in Boca Chica, Texas, after the company failed to provide the requested environmental information. Elon Musk’s company was informed about this decision in March. The letter came after he threatened to move operations to Florida if Texas regulators did not […]
At a distance of 508 light years from Earth, which is quite close by cosmic standards, the young star AB Aurigae is still forming. However, planets are already being born around it. A new study has shown that one of the planets forms at a very great distance from its star and in a rather […]
Russia has once again threatened to suspend cooperation with the West under the International Space Station (ISS) program. Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin is demanding the lifting of sanctions against his country. Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia’s Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, has condemned sanctions imposed by the United States, Japan, Canada, and the European Union […]
Due to the subtle atmosphere on Mars, the sound does not spread as well as on our planet. NASA has analyzed recordings from the microphones of the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity drone to determine how fast the sound wave is moving. The results of the study published in the journal Nature on April 1. […]
There were several flares in the sun in late March. The strongest (M9.6 – medium intensity) occurred at 18:35 UTC on March 31. The source was a group of sunspots with high magnetic complexity (Region 2975). This was reported by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The charged particles emitted by the star reached […]
On April 1, the US space agency (NASA) began preparing its giant Space Launch System rocket, which is designed to carry out manned missions far beyond Earth’s orbit, for key tests. The Space Launch System (SLS) is located at 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida (USA). If all goes well, the rocket will […]
One of the most famous and most effective space observatories, Hubble, began operations in 1990 and is still in operation (although it was designed for 15 years). Recently, the telescope made another discovery. The farthest star has detected. Now her name is Earendel. It existed for the first billion years after the birth of the […]