A dazzling comet left behind a dramatic dust tail as it swept around the sun, new photos reveal. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was visible to the naked eye earlier in October…
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Ion engines could take us to the solar gravitational lens in less than 13 years, suggests paper
Ion thruster. Credit: NASA Sending an object to another star is still the stuff of science fiction. But some concrete missions could get us at least part way there. These…
Watch sun erupt in 1st images from NOAA’s groundbreaking new satellite (photos)
The first images from a new space-based telescope launched into Earth’s orbit to monitor the sun captured a striking solar storm outburst. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shared…
Discovery of carbon-storing molecules in a distant interstellar cloud may shed light on how our own solar system formed
The Taurus Molecular Cloud, in which TMC-1 is located, appears in the top portion of the image as a dark cloud blocking the light from the background stars as seen…
Weather clears for SpaceX Crew-8 to head home to Florida
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The four members of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission climbed on board the Crew Dragon Endeavour on Wednesday to prepare for their return trip to Earth from…
Headless ‘Halloween comet’ could already be doomed
The latest update concerning “the other comet” of October 2024 — Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) — is that it continues on target to completely disintegrate before it sweeps around the…
China’s ‘Thousand Sails’ joins Starlink as the latest mega-satellite constellation in orbit
The first batch of Thousand Sails satellites head to orbit. Credit: CNSA With “Thousand Sails,” China joins the race to fill up Low Earth Orbit with mega-satellite constellations. It’s getting…
NOAA releases imagery from world’s first operational space-based coronagraph
Credit: NOAA Headquarters NOAA today shared the first images from the Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1), a powerful solar telescope onboard the new GOES-19 satellite. CCOR-1, the world’s first operational, space-based coronagraph,…
Supergiant star Betelgeuse may have a ‘BetelBuddy’
Could the giant star Betelgeuse have a buddy? A Betelbuddy? Betelgeuse, the second-brightest star in the constellation Orion, is a giant star whose strange dimming has sparked debate over when…
A new view of the in-between years of our universe
A line intensity map (left) shows how galaxies are clustered in the distant past. While a high-resolution telescope (bottom right) can identify individual galaxies, a lower-resolution image (upper right) can…
