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Dr. Zhao Hongjie, Executive Vice President of Nationstar Aerospace, speaking on Chinese TV, said that China has implemented laser communication at a speed of 10 Gbps in outer space. “For example, we need less than 1 second to complete the transfer of a 1 GB movie from Earth to the Chinese space station,” said Zhao […]
At the end of 2023, NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a “time-lapse” of a Martian day for 12 hours from one position, capturing its own shadow on the landscape. According to NASA, Curiosity was instructed to record the 12-hour sequence a few days before the start of the solar conjunction on Mars, a natural phenomenon that […]
Our knowledge of the universe is constantly being tested by new facts and unexplained phenomena, the meaning of which scientists have yet to understand. This year, astronomers have recorded and set new records, as Space.com reminds us. In the past year, astronomers have detected a record-breaking powerful gamma-ray burst on the Sun. While the previous […]
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 […]
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 […]
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen has managed to capture a rare atmospheric phenomenon known as a red sprite. The red sprite is a rare form of upper-atmospheric lightning that was confirmed to exist about 30 years ago. Such cold plasma discharges occur over thunderstorm clouds that form at an altitude of 40 to […]