Category: Astro(physics)
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Woof! I have a place in space – Laika, the first mammal in orbit
Every year on April, 12 the world remembers with emotion the amazing achievement of Yuri Gagarin, the first man to watch Earth from space. 53…
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Space, lies, and video(tape)
i.e, what else is fake in space? A funny video I watched a few days ago (that I also advise to anybody interested in…
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Space exploration – to the far end of the Solar System? Maybe, or maybe not.
2015 NASA budget – as disclosed in these day by the White House – (http://www.space.com/24911-nasa-2015-budget-highlights.html) – amounts at $17.5 billion to NASA, about $200…
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So, so beautiful
http://www.space.com/24299-weirdly-passive-black-hole-discovered-orbiting-fast-spinning-star-animation.html When a star meets a black hole a lot of strange things can happen. This video is eerily charming to look at.
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Exoplanet young, single, orbiting sun-like star. Sci-Fi Writers wanted for exciting stories.
One of the most exciting features of astronomy today is the search for exoplanets offering life conditions suitable for life (see http://www.space.com/159-strangest-alien-planets.html). Things are…
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Nemesis – The Rise and Fall of a Death Star
Updated in November 2014 A small celebrity in the scientific community since the 80s, the hypothetical Nemesis is just as famous among the non-specialists,…
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Lonely, young planet drifting in space without a star – any taker?
Its name is PSO J318.5-22, a baby planet (only 12 ml year old!) floating in space near our system… The whole story at: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/10/tech/space-new-planet/index.html
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Saturn’s Streaming Hexagon
From Nasa’s Cassini mission, voila’ the Exagon, Saturn’s glittering North Pole…
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Jade Rabbit is there!
Jade Rabbit is there! And here we go…China made it, and Yutu (ie, its mythological Jade Rabbit) finally walks – well, sort of –…