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Carnival of Space #611
NASA Senior Engineer Kobie Boykins talks About Exploring Mars. And I was There to See it!
I recently had the honor of attending a Nat Geo Live talk hosted by Kobie Boykins. As NASA JPL's chief engineer, he has played a major role in the development of every rover sent to Mars since 1997.
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The Blue Origins Founder Wants to Get to the Moon by 2024
Antimatter Behaves Exactly the Same as Regular Matter in Double Slit Experiments
An experiment recently conducted by the QUPLAS collaboration confirmed the dual, particle-wave nature of antimatter.
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The International Space Station Rides High Through the May Sky
May is graduation month, and with it, school star party season is about to conclude. If you happen to be out this coming weekend showing the sky off to the public, keep an eye out for one of the top celestial sights that you won't see at the eyepiece, as we're in for a slew of good visible passes of the International Space Station worldwide.
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Messier 85 - the NGC 4382 Elliptical (Lenticular) Galaxy
Located in the Coma Berenices constellation, roughly 60 million light years from Earth, is the elliptical galaxy known as Messier 85.
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Ep. 530: Astronomy of the Andes: Then and Now, Pt. 2
A Supercomputer has been Designed to run the World's Largest Radio Telescope
The Science Data Processor consortium for the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) just completed the design work on the supercomputer that will handle all the data it collects.
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Prototype of a Future Interstellar Probe was Just Tested on a Balloon
Researchers with the UCSB Experimental Cosmology Group recently conducted a successful stratospheric test of their wafercraft, which could be traveling to the nearest star systems someday soon.
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The Black Hole Picture Could Be So Much Better If You Add Space Telescopes
Watch the Moon Buzz the Beehive
Weekly Space Hangout: May 8, 2019 - Dr. Henry Hsieh talks Active Asteroids
Before We Ruin the Universe, We Should Follow Some Space Sustainability Guidelines
Japan's First Private Rocket Flies to Space
Habitability of Planets Will Depend on Their Interiors
Some of Earth's Gold Came From Two Neutron Stars That Collided Billions of Years Ago
A new study has shown that a good deal of Earth's heaviest elements may have come from a nearby neutron star collision billions of years ago.
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Astronauts Could Rely on Algae as the Perfect Life Support Partner
Researchers from Germany are testing a new hybrid life support system aboard the ISS, which uses algae to clean the air and water supply and even provide a food source.
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Hayabusa1's Samples of Itokawa Turned up Water That's Very Similar to Earth's Oceans
A recent study of samples from the asteroid Itokawa has revealed that "dry" asteroids may have delivered up to half of Earth's water billions of years ago.
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Carnival of Space #610
Ep. 529: Astronomy of the Andes – Then and Now Pt. 1
Climate Change Q & A with Bear Grylls
Starlink's Satellites Will be Orbiting at a Much Lower Altitude, Reducing the Risks of Space Junk
SpaceX recently got FCC approval and is moving ahead with the deployment of its proposed internet satellite constellation.
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16 Years of Hubble Images Come Together in this one Picture Containing 265,000 Galaxies
The Hubble Legacy Field, the result of 16 years of observations and the most detailed image of our Universe, has been released!
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The Global Dust Storm that Ended Opportunity Helped Teach us how Mars Lost its Water
Blue Origin's New Shepard Flies Again, a Week Before Their Mysterious Announcement
When the Impact that Created the Moon Happened, the early Earth was still a ball of magma
A new study has illustrated how the impact between a proto-Earth and a Mars-sized object could have led the Moon to be composed primarily of the same material as Earth.
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Dark Matter Detector Finds the Rarest Event Ever Seen in the Universe
The XENON experiment recently made a breakthrough in their hunt for dark matter, observing the most rare decay process in the Universe that involves neutrinos.
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It Looks Like LIGO/Virgo Have Detected a Black Hole Eating a Neutron Star. For the First Time Ever
Keep an Eye Out for the Eta Aquarid Meteors This Weekend
The World's Space Agencies are Responding to a Hypothetical Asteroid Impact. You Can Watch it all Unfold Online.
Weekly Space Hangout: May 1, 2019 - Dr. Mark Showalter of SETI
A Strange Ice Feature Wraps Halfway Around Titan
Rapidly Spinning Black Hole is Spitting Out Blobs of Plasma
Friday's SpaceX Dragon Launch CRS-17 to Light Up the U.S. East Coast
Ever seen a rocket launch before? Catching one is easier than you might think. You just need to be looking in the right direction at the right time, and have clear skies. If you happen to be watching from the U.S. south eastern seaboard, you just might catch the spectacular dawn launch of a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket with Dragon on the CRS-17 (also known as SpX-17) mission headed to the International Space Station before dawn on the morning of Wednesday, May 1st.
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Carnival of Space #609
Ep. 528: Modern Astronomy of the American Southwest
Messier 84 - the NGC Elliptical Galaxy
Here's the Video of Hayabusa2 Bombing Asteroid Ryugu
Japan's recently shared a video of the crater their Hayabusa2 spacecraft created on the surface of Ryugu.
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InSight Just Detected its First "Marsquake"
The InSight lander recently detected the strongest seismic signal yet, thanks to its Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument.
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As Expected, the Newly Upgraded LIGO is Finding a Black Hole Merger Every Week
The LIGO detector is back online after months of upgrades, and has made two new detections already!
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Astronomers Catch a Superflare From a Puny Star
Astronomers recently spied a massive flare on a tiny diminutive star, a powerful, radiation spewing event that you wouldn't want to witness up close.
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Weekly Space Hangout: Apr 24, 2019 - Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan of the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) Sounder Team on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Astronomers Think a Meteor Came from Outside the Solar System
Barfing Neutron Stars Reveal Their Inner Guts
You Could Travel Through a Wormhole, but it's Slower Than Going Through Space
A new study reveals that traveling through a wormhole may actually be possible, but don't count on it saving you any time!
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Ep. 527: Ancient Astronomy of the American Southwest
Carnival of Space #608
What Will the James Webb Space Telescope See? A Whole Bunch of Dust, That's What
The World's Biggest Aircraft - the Rocket-Launching Stratolaunch - Completes its First Test Flight
Stratolaunch recently conducted the first test flight of its air-carrier plane, the largest and heaviest aircraft in the world.
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