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Is Space Dangerous? What We Actually Know About the Solar System
2+ hour, 45+ min ago (1059+ words) Space tends to instill fear in ordinary individuals. They perceive it as being filled with phenomena beyond scientific comprehension, potentially threatening their safety. However, in fact, space has been extensively researched by scientists and remains, in many respects, highly predictable....
Space News: ‘Beyond the limit’ — one million satellites and mirrors in space pose grave threat to the night sky - Lake County News,California
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (1014+ words) LAKE COUNTY NEWS REPORTS A recent European Southern Observatory, or ESO, study has found that current proposals to launch over 1.7 million satellites into orbit, including extremely bright ones, would have “devastating consequences for astronomy.” According to the study, no more…...
On 31 January 1958, Explorer 1, America’s first satellite, began returning a baffling pattern from its Geiger counter: ordinary cosmic-ray counts followed by unexplained zeros. Van Allen’s team suspected the instrument was not failing but saturating under radiation too intense to register; two months later, Explorer 3’s complete recordings confirmed that the apparent silence marked a vast radiation belt surrounding Earth—the first of the belts now bearing Van Allen’s name.
2+ hour, 29+ min ago (515+ words) Explorer 1’s zero counts proved to be detector overload, and Explorer 3’s continuous record exposed the first of Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts....
DwarfLab Launches Draco Smart Telescope with Rotating Sensor
13+ hour, 41+ min ago (219+ words) Technetbook DwarfLab Launches Draco Smart Telescope with Rotating Sensor Capturing deep sky objects usually requires a bulky equatorial mount to stop stars from trailing across long exposures. DwarfLab solves this problem inside the camera body itself. The sensor physically twists…...
Starwatch: A hanging hero in the heavens
11+ hour, 39+ min ago (886+ words) Pottsville Republican Herald Even though we’re in the closing weeks of summer, the great but faint constellation Hercules the Hero is still with us, hanging upside down high in the early evening western Pottsville sky. It’s certainly not the brightest…...
NASA wants to see your pictures of the sky. Here’s why
10+ hour, 34+ min ago (293+ words) (NEXSTAR) – NASA wants you to point your phone to the sky and take a picture of the clouds. For science. Starting on Sept. 15, the space agency’s PACE satellite (which stands for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite) will circle…...
Astronaut Who Spent 178 Days in Space Says ‘We’re Living a Lie’
2+ hour, 30+ min ago (35+ words) Astronaut Ron Garan came back from his time in space with one single view of humanity. After spending 178 days aboard the ISS …...
The Farewell of the Moon.
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (35+ words) A warm embrace, carried by words woven with love, i will always send safely into your arms. And with every dandelion that floats away, so do my hopes. Hoping you …...
Help Refine Data from Space Telescopes with Artifact InSPECtor
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (186+ words) How do scientists studying space with data from a telescope hundreds of thousands of miles away know that what they are seeing is real? A new NASA project, Artifact InSPECtor, invites you to find out – and by doing so, to…...