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
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