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NASA’s satellite weighing over 1,000 POUNDS set to fall into the South Pacific this weekend

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NASA’s 56-year-old satellite that weighs more than 1,000 POUNDS is set to fall into the South Pacific this weekend – but experts say it will burn up before hitting the ocean One of NASA’s satellites is set to fall back to Earth on Saturday at 5:01pm ET Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 1 has been in space … Read more

Newest NASA telescope will detect ‘rogue’ planets that could outnumber stars in the Milky Way

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NASA speculates there are hundreds of rogue planets hiding all across the galaxy and may actually outnumber the hundreds of billions of stars. These free-floating orbs travel around space unattached to a larger star and an orbital telescope set to launch in 2025 aims to uncover their existence.  According to researchers, the $4 billion Nancy … Read more

NASA finds an active galaxy 500 million light-years away that looks like a Star Wars TIE fighter 

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NASA telescopes have spotted a galaxy ‘far, far, away’ — 500 million light-years, to be precise — that is the spitting image of a TIE fighter from Star Wars. In the long-running space opera, these agile spacecraft named in-universe for their ‘Twin Ion Engines’ are flown by Darth Vader and the forces of the Galactic … Read more

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy on the ISS receives a call from Canadian students using a ham radio

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A group of Canadian students used ham radio technology to have a once-in-a-lifetime conversation with a crew member aboard the International Space Station. Young members of the Airdrie Space Science Club in Alberta connected with NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, who was conducting experiments aboard the ISS some 240 miles above Earth’s surface. The students, who … Read more

Hubble telescope captures close-up image of comet Neowise after its journey around the Sun

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Hubble telescope captures close-up image of comet Neowise after its journey around the Sun showing its solid nucleus has remained intact  Neowise is the brightest comet visible in the northern skies since Hale-Bopp It passed closest to the Sun — at 27 million miles distance — on July 3, 2020 NASA have now released shots … Read more

NASA satellite images show smoke over California amid wildfires

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Shocking satellite images captured by NASA show a dense cloud of smoke covering the entirety of California, making it nearly invisible from space as 650 wildfires continue to rage in the state. The Golden State is currently battling some of the worst wildfires in its history, and images from the space agency’s Terra satellite have revealed … Read more

NASA satellite images show smoke over California amid wildfires

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Shocking satellite images captured by NASA show a dense cloud of smoke covering the entirety of California, making it nearly invisible from space as 650 wildfires continue to rage in the state. The Golden State is currently battling some of the worst wildfires in its history, and images from the space agency’s Terra satellite have revealed … Read more

AI algorithm discovers FIFTY new exoplanets orbiting far-off stars by analyzing NASA data

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AI algorithm discovers FIFTY new exoplanets orbiting far-off stars by analyzing NASA data – with some larger than Neptune Scientists developed a machine learning algorithm to find exoplanets The system scoured through thousands of candidates and validated 50 planets This is the first time artificial intelligence has validated exoplanets The team says the new planets … Read more

Jeff Bezo’s Blue Origin delivers 40-foot tall mockup lunar lander to NASA

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Blue Origin, an aerospace firm owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, delivered a mockup crew lander vehicle that could take the first woman and next man to the moon. The full-sized structure, although not functional, includes both the ascent and descent elements, and stands 40 feet tall. The Bezo’s owned-company announced its ‘National Team ‘and … Read more