[ad_1] Gif courtesy of the Chinese Communist Youth League Gif courtesy of the Chinese Communist Youth League China’s National Space Administration on Friday released an image showing the Chinese national flag flown from the Chang’e-5 probe to the moon before takeoff. The images were taken by a panoramic camera installed on the probe’s landing-ascender combination … Read more
[ad_1] Blue Origin-Artemis: clip shows blinding flames out of engine during test New Delhi: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company Blue Origin intends to put the first woman on the moon. Testing of the rocket motor that will take the first female astronaut to the moon is in full swing and Mr Bezos shared a … Read more
[ad_1] Early sunday In the morning, the sky over an isolated military complex in central Australia will be lit by a fireball plunging down to Earth. It’ll be a blazing homecoming for the sample return capsule of Hayabusa2, a Japanese spacecraft launched almost exactly six years ago with the goal of shooting an ancient asteroid … Read more
[ad_1] Have comets delivered the essential elements for life on Earth? It looks more and more like they could have. At least one comet could have, anyway: 67P / Churyumov – Gerasimenko. A new study using data from ESA’s Rosetta mission shows that the comet contains the vital element phosphorus. Researchers from the University of … Read more
[ad_1] Hanging on the first floor of MIT’s Nuclear Science Lab hangs an instrument called “A Wideband / Resonant Approach to Cosmic Axion Detection with a B-Field Ring Amplifier Apparatus,” or ABRACADABRA for short. As the name suggests, ABRACADABRA’s goal is to detect axions, a hypothetical particle that may be the main constituent of dark … Read more
[ad_1] Kate Rubins, NASA astronaut and Expedition 64 flight engineer, checks out the radish plants growing for the Plant Habitat-02 experiment, which aims to optimize plant growth in space and assess nutrition and taste Plant.Photo: NASA If you are a fan of the film The Martian, in which Matt Damon’s tenuous little potato crop must … Read more
[ad_1] Rocks from an asteroid for delivery to EarthBBC News After six years and 6 billion km, Japanese Hayabusa2 prepares to bring home a shipment of asteroid dustThe Guardian For the second time, an asteroid sample returns to EarthWIRED Japanese spacecraft approaches Earth to drop asteroid samplesYahoo News Special delivery: Japanese space probe will bring … Read more
[ad_1] For some, the sound of a “perfect flow” might be the gentle lapping of a forest stream or perhaps the tinkle of water poured from a pitcher. For physicists, perfect flow is more specific, referring to a fluid that flows with the smallest amount of friction, or viscosity, allowed by the laws of quantum … Read more
[ad_1] Australian astronomers have just mapped 83% of the observable universe, in just 300 hours. This new study of the sky, which the Australian National Science Agency (CSIRO) described in a statement as a “Google map of the universe”, marks the completion of a major test for Australia’s Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope … Read more
[ad_1] This image compares two radically different portraits of the Stingray Nebula captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope 20 years apart. The image on the left, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 in March 1996, shows the central star of the nebula in the later stages of its life. The gas blown … Read more