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Archive for September, 2023

Experience the Overview Effect with the Felix & Paul VR trilogy ‘Space Explorers: Blue Marble’

September 10th, 2023 by

Felix & Paul Studios announces the release of the VR space trilogy, “Space Explorers: Blue Marble”

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Globular cluster glitters in stunning new Hubble photo

September 10th, 2023 by

A new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a glittering globular cluster deep in our Milky Way galaxy.

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Astronaut wields new space camera to see lightning strikes on Earth

September 10th, 2023 by

European astronaut Andreas Mogensen captured incredible footage of lightning strikes during just 10 days in space in 2015. He plans a deeper study during his new six-month stay on the International Space Station, with a new camera.

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India’s Chandrayaan-3 robotic moon explorers don’t have heaters. Can they survive the frigid lunar night?

September 10th, 2023 by

India’s Chandrayaan-3 moon lander and rover are facing their first lunar night. Their chances of waking up at dawn whittle down to luck.

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The US Space Force has a new mission statement to secure everything ‘in, from and to space’

September 9th, 2023 by

The United States Space Force has unveiled a concise new mission statement after the service’s top officer criticized the previous statement as ‘long and cumbersome.’

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Nightfox 100V night vision binoculars review

September 9th, 2023 by

The Nightfox 100V is a good budget pair of digital night vision binoculars but it takes a bunch of batteries to power it.

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NASA may have unknowingly found and killed alien life on Mars 50 years ago, scientist claims

September 9th, 2023 by

One researcher hypothesizes that experiments carried out by NASA’s Viking landers in 1976 could have inadvertently killed microbes living in Martian rocks. Other experts are skeptical.

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Hurricane Lee looks absolutely terrifying in this footage from inside its eye (video)

September 9th, 2023 by

Storm chasers with the Air Force Reserve’s Hurricane Hunters caught terrifying footage from inside the eye of Hurricane Lee on Sept. 8, showing the storm brimming with lightning.

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