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Archive for September, 2020

Celestron Cosmos 90 GT WiFi telescope: Full review

September 24th, 2020 by

With good optics that offer views of solar system and bright deep-sky targets, the Celestron Cosmos 90 GT is easy to set up and operate, with only a few minor niggles

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Blue Origin will launch its next New Shepard suborbital test flight today. Here’s how to watch live.

September 24th, 2020 by

Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard spacecraft will take to the skies this week for the first time in nine months.

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On This Day in Space: Sept. 24, 2014: India’s 1st Mars mission reaches orbit

September 24th, 2020 by

On Sept. 24, 2014, India’s first interplanetary mission entered into orbit around Mars! See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

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Earth life may have traveled to Venus aboard sky-skimming asteroid

September 24th, 2020 by

If there is indeed life on Venus, it may have come from Earth — aboard an asteroid that scooped up microbes high in our skies.

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Rosetta’s ‘rubber ducky’ comet has ultraviolet auroras

September 24th, 2020 by

Planets aren’t the only things in the solar system with auroras. Comets can have them too, data from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission has revealed.

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SpaceX pops Starship tank on purpose in explosive pressure test

September 24th, 2020 by

The Starship SN7.1 tank was destroyed on purpose last night (Sept. 22) at SpaceX’s South Texas facilities, during a pressure test designed to take the stainless-steel hardware to its bursting point.

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Surprise! The ring around M87 galaxy’s monster black hole wobbles over time.

September 23rd, 2020 by

The first black hole to be imaged directly is giving up even more of its secrets.

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Earth may get a new minimoon — but it may just be 1960s space junk

September 23rd, 2020 by

Every once in a while, orbital trajectories and fate’s gravity conspire to let Earth briefly adopt a miniature moon to join us for a few measures of our planet’s constant dance around the sun.

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