July 19, 2019
Stories tagged "space"
July 18, 2019
The Women Who Will Walk on the Moon Face Hurdles of Earthly Gender Bias
NASA’s recently announced Artemis mission will seek to bring astronauts back to the moon by 2024 including the first woman to walk on the moon. But for the women of NASA–especially its recent class that had the most women ever–what will that mean...July 9, 2019
The Space Graveyard You Never Knew About
By Miro Korenha and Alexandra Patel Point Nemo, standing for no one, lies 4,000 meters below the ocean’s surface and it’s the spot where hundreds of fallen spacecraft lie in the “space graveyard”. Located between Australia and South America, this area is...April 30, 2019
NASA’s carbon observatory set for liftoff despite attempts to defund the project
Despite the Trump administration’s best efforts to cut funding for NASA’ s carbon dioxide tracking instrument OCO-3, the observatory is scheduled to make its way to the Internationa Space Station (ISS) this week. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...April 12, 2019
Hero of the week: Dr. Katie Bouman
https://www.instagram.com/p/BwFeiAqjzKZ/?utm_source=ig_embed This week the first ever photo of a black hole from a galaxy that’s about 55 million light-years from Earth was released to the public. The image caused a buzz and was the result of a years’ long...April 9, 2019
One cool thing: what does a black hole look like?
People have speculated as to what black holes looks like since the 1700s and this week we may finally get an accurate depiction. As the New York Times explained, astronomers who have created a global network of radio telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope are...February 25, 2019
Japanese spacecraft lands on distant asteroid
Last Friday, the Hayabusa2–a Japanese spacecraft–landed on a distant asteroid on a mission to collect material that could provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on Earth. As AP reported Hayabusa2 extended a pipe and shot a pinball-like...January 30, 2019