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Archive for April, 2021

20 years of otherworldly thought experiments: A Q&A with artist Jonathon Keats

April 9th, 2021 by

For 20 years, Jonathon Keats has been asking us to recalibrate our assumptions about the universe and our place in it through a series of thought experiments. A new book dives deep into his work.

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Hubble telescope finds rare double quasars in ancient galactic collisions

April 9th, 2021 by

NASA’s long-serving Hubble Space Telescope is seeing double after detecting two rare pairs of quasars nestled within galactic collisions that occurred 10 billion years ago.

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Director Neil Burger’s ‘Voyagers’ launches a colony ship to the stars

April 9th, 2021 by

What happens when hell breaks loose on a multi-generational spaceship?

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Helicopter on Mars! NASA webcast teaches kids about Ingenuity’s upcoming 1st flight

April 9th, 2021 by

NASA’s education team hosted a special webcast for students on Thursday (April 8) to talk about the Mars helicopter Ingenuity and its upcoming first flight on the Red Planet.

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Soyuz MS-18 crew launches to station 60 years after first human spaceflight

April 9th, 2021 by

Three astronauts embarked for the International Space Station just three days shy of the 60th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. The trio launched on Soyuz MS-18, named the “Yu.A. Gagarin.”

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Watch live Friday: Soyuz rocket launching new US-Russian crew @ 3:42 am ET

April 8th, 2021 by

A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch a joint U.S.-Russian crew to the International Space Station early Friday (April 9) and you can watch it live here courtesy of NASA TV.

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You can watch a Soyuz rocket launch a US-Russian crew to the International Space Station early Friday

April 8th, 2021 by

A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and two cosmonauts toward the space station early Friday (April 9) on a last-minute mission. Here’s how you can watch it live.

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A tiny, wobbling muon just shook particle physics to its core

April 8th, 2021 by

But this may not be the end of the story.

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